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    How to Cook Everything: Christmas: 20 Festive Holiday Recipes and 34 Variations
    How to Cook Everything: Christmas: 20 Festive Holiday Recipes and 34 Variations
    How to Cook Everything: Christmas: 20 Festive Holiday Recipes and 34 Variations
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    How to Cook Everything: Christmas: 20 Festive Holiday Recipes and 34 Variations

    By Mark Bittman

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    Make Christmas gatherings memorable with this handy collection of holiday recipes from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.
     
    When winter comes, it’s time to pull out your pots and pans and fill your kitchen with wonderful aromas of fresh baked goodies and savory, slow-cooked treats. This collection of 20 traditional and nontraditional holiday hits (with variations) from Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything series is sure to make any get-together memorable, with:
    • menus for a festive celebratory meal to share around the table
    • party food perfect for a holiday get-together
    • foods that make great gifts
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateNov 29, 2012
    ISBN9780544186897
    How to Cook Everything: Christmas: 20 Festive Holiday Recipes and 34 Variations
    Author

    Mark Bittman

    MARK BITTMAN, guest editor, is the author of more than thirty books, including the How to Cook Everything series and the #1 New York Times bestseller VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health . . . for Good. He was a food columnist, an opinion columnist, and the lead magazine food writer at the New York Times, where he started writing in 1984 and remained for more than thirty years.

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      How to Cook Everything - Mark Bittman

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      List of Recipes and Sidebars

      In Good Spirits

      Appetizers, Soup, and Salad

      Stuffed Mushrooms

      Nutty Stuffed Mushrooms

      Stuffed Mushrooms with Bacon Bread Crumbs

      Boosting the Flavor of Nuts

      Cheese Straws

      Pickled Eggs with Oranges and Warm Spices

      Creamy Oyster and Potato Stew

      Fennel and Orange Salad

      Preparing Citrus Wheels

      Poultry

      Classic Roast Turkey with Gravy

      Turkey Gravy

      Stock Options

      Timing for Defrosting Large Birds

      To Brine or Not to Brine?

      Timing for Roasting Turkey

      How to Carve a Turkey

      Removing Turkey Breasts

      Roast Goose

      Meat

      Baked Country Ham

      Baked Wet-Cured Ham

      Prime Rib Roast for a Small Crowd

      Prime Rib for a Big Crowd

      Boneless Prime Rib

      Carving Prime Rib

      Stuffing and Bread

      Bread Stuffing with Fruit

      Fruit-and-Nut or Vegetable-and-Nut Bread

      Pumpkin Ginger Bread with Hazelnuts

      Brown Sugar Carrot Bread with Almonds

      5 Seasonal Fruit or Vegetable and Nut Combinations

      Sides

      Red Cabbage with Apples

      Glazed Chestnuts

      Port-Glazed Chestnuts

      Creamy Glazed Chestnuts

      Preparing Chestnuts

      Braised Winter Squash in Caramel Sauce

      Braised Winter Squash in Caramel Sauce with Balsamic Vinegar and Rosemary

      Mashed Potatoes

      Smashed Potatoes

      Garlicky Mashed Potatoes

      Mashed Sweet Potatoes

      More Ways to Flavor Mashed Potatoes or Sweet Potatoes

      Desserts

      Aunt Big’s Gingersnaps

      Gingerbread Men

      Molasses-Spice Cookies

      Refrigerator (or Rolled) Cookies

      Peanut Butter Cookies

      Rosemary Sugar Cookies

      Brown Sugar and Salt Cookies

      Brittled Popcorn

      Nut Brittle

      Chocolate-Nut Brittle

      6 Other Things to Add to Brittle

      Spice Mixtures as Gifts

      Chili Powder

      Fragrant Curry Powder

      Five-Spice Powder

      Boozy Apple Cake

      Beet Cake with Orange Glaze

      Parsnip or Carrot Cake with Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

      Fennel Cake with Grapefruit Glaze

      Boozy Cake Soak

      Double-Chocolate Bars

      Chocolate Peppermint Bars

      Chocolate Cranberry or Cherry Bars

      Chocolate Swirl Bars

      Decorating Holiday Treats

      Vanilla Glaze

      Orange or Grapefruit Glaze

      Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

      Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

      Maple Buttercream Frosting

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      In Good Spirits

      Since these days Christmas goes nonstop from Thanksgiving through New Year’s, folks are enjoying good cooking—and eating—during the whole month of December. You don’t even need to observe Christmas to embrace all the good cheer. For you celebrating may mean a big meal (or several!), hosting or taking food to holiday parties, baking treats for a cookie swap or office party, or giving homemade goodies as gifts—or probably a combination of all of these.

      Sure, there’s work involved, but holiday cooking can be enormously gratifying, something people look forward to all year. For many of you, the food shared over this period is a way to wish others well and express the importance of your relationships. Even folks who don’t cook much can be swept up in the joy of preparing treats and envisioning wonderful menus.

      But as with any labor of love, once the calendar starts filling up, it’s important to get organized. This one-stop holiday cookbook will help you do exactly that, regardless of how you choose to get in the spirit.

      Taking food to parties? Having a few simple make-ahead recipes can be a boon. (Remember that the most important thing to take to the gathering is your smiling presence, not perfectly decorated cookies.) Cheese Straws are my default finger food: They take less than thirty minutes to make and are always impressive. They also pair perfectly with drinks, as do the untraditional but addictive Pickled Eggs. Cookies and quick breads can do double duty for serving and gifting, and the latter are a great way to incorporate seasonal ingredients (see Pumpkin Ginger Bread with Hazelnuts and Brown Sugar Carrot Bread).

      If the spirit moves you to prepare homemade gifts on a grander scale, then try putting together your own spice blend and then pairing it with a recipe that puts it to good use, like five-spice powder with Brittled Popcorn. It’s fast and easy to package, the flavors of

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