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cookbooks<br />
Christmas in Review<br />
Four Favourites for the Holidays<br />
Reviews and Recipe Selections by JENNIFER GAGEL<br />
Festivities got you frazzled? A little bit<br />
of planning goes a long way to making<br />
the holidays the most enjoyable<br />
time of the year. Here<br />
are some favourite Christmas<br />
cookbooks, and selected<br />
recipes.<br />
Bestselling romance<br />
author Debbie Macomber<br />
wants to put a little spark<br />
in your holiday season with<br />
her Christmas Cookbook:<br />
Favorite Recipes and<br />
Holiday Traditions from<br />
My Home to Yours (Harlequin,<br />
2011, $32.95). With<br />
the personal warmth that<br />
has made her a beloved author for many<br />
years, Debbie invites us to peer through a<br />
frost-touched window to see her own family<br />
traditions unfold through the holiday<br />
season. Presenting the reader with over one<br />
hundred recipes and her own decorating<br />
and craft ideas, as well as some personal<br />
memories of the holidays, Debbie makes<br />
us wish Christmas was already<br />
here.<br />
Her old-fashioned Christmas<br />
Tea recipes make our<br />
mouths water for a childhood<br />
before our own time. Anyone<br />
who misses their Nana will<br />
nd the chapter “Cooking with<br />
Grandma” especially heartwarming.<br />
And if it’s your rst<br />
time hosting the holiday feast<br />
this year, “Easy Family Dinners”<br />
will make you feel like a pro.<br />
You’ll nd some quick “got it<br />
in the pantry” recipes, such as<br />
the Five Minute Cranberry and Walnut Cobbler<br />
that will make you look brilliant when<br />
you suddenly remember that you invited the<br />
whole oce home for a get-together tonight.<br />
For those who like their Christmas tra-<br />
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ditions a little less traditional, there’s e<br />
Hairy Bikers’ 12 Days of Christmas: Irresistible,<br />
Easy Recipes to Feed Your Friends<br />
and Family (Dave Myers<br />
and Si King, Weidenfeld<br />
& Nicolson, 2010, $32.06<br />
) With a combination of<br />
British irreverence and<br />
good cheer, Meyers and<br />
King could be the lost sons<br />
of the Two Fat Ladies. is<br />
unlikely pair of foodies<br />
takes us along for a merry<br />
ride through e 12 Days of<br />
Christmas.<br />
Myers and King have given<br />
us a personal book with<br />
touches like “handwritten”<br />
notes alongside their recipes. It makes you<br />
feel as if the book is an old favourite, full of<br />
well-used recipes, from the moment you<br />
open it. New cooks may have a bit of trouble<br />
with the UK measurements, but these fabulous<br />
recipes are well worth the translation.<br />
Hot chocolate made with a real vanilla bean<br />
and freshly ground nutmeg<br />
is enough to make anyone<br />
wish for Christmas in jolly old<br />
England!<br />
For tried and tested ways<br />
to make your celebration<br />
picture perfect, e Martha<br />
Stewart Living Christmas<br />
Cookbook : A Collection of<br />
Favorite Holiday Recipes<br />
(editors of Martha Stewart<br />
Living, Clarkson Potter,<br />
2003, $45.95), is a standby.<br />
Complete with over 600<br />
recipes and plenty of gorgeous<br />
photos, this is sure to inspire everyone<br />
from the novice to the seasoned.<br />
From serving arriving guests homemade<br />
Spicy Pecans to presenting a traditional<br />
roast goose, the tips and how-to illustrations
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