holiday cooking

Includes over 100 recipes for holiday baking, over twenty full-color photographs with holiday presentation ideas, and instructions for building a gingerbread house.

Contains menus and recipes from Paula Deen for holidays and special occasions, from a New Year's Eve brunch through the year to Christmas dinner, and includes Deen family memories and photographs.

Provides an introduction to cooking basics, tools, terms, and ingredients, contains measuring tips, and features recipes for nine no-bake holiday treats, including leprechaun lollipops, Cinco de Mayo frizzies, Halloween pumpkin pie, and others.

A handmade gift of food for the holiday season, birthdays, anniversaries and other celebrations, is always welcome. As traditional cooking skills are being rediscovered, gifts of this nature are easy to prepare given clear and easy directions.