We begin with New Year's Day, for brunch there are smoothies and three ways to make French toast - including a baked version, while dinner offers up salsa, hopping John, collards and corn bread. For the Big Game we have chicken bites, chili,dips and BBQ sliders, along with do ahead hints and tips. Valentine's Day is celebrated with red velvet cupcakes, a chocolate cherry smoothie, truffles, cookies, chocolate covered strawberries with a wedge salad and a bacon wrapped filet for dinner.
The next holiday is Easter and includes hot cross buns, ham, biscuits, fruit salad and carrot cake, plus deviled eggs and egg salad sandwiches. Cinco de Mayo is filled with recipes for margaritas, several variations for pico de gallo, fajitas, lime rice, salsa, guacamole and chimichurri shrimp, while Mother's Day pitches three types of scones, scrambled eggs and parfaits.
Of course we have recipes for Father's Day with ravioli, lasagne, chocolate strawberry cake and Arnold Palmers. For the Fourth of July a few of the offerings include lemonade, sangria, burgers, potato and pasta salads with cobbler for dessert. We fast forward to Halloween with pumpkin pancakes, a cheese ball, popcorn balls, caramel apples and eyeball cake balls.
For Thanksgiving, in addition to the usual turkey with gravy, there are four types of dressings, pies, cranberry sauce, broccoli wild rice casserole, plus a few recipes utilizing leftovers ~ tetrazzini, pot pie and spring rolls. Christmas is a large chapter featuring cookies, pudding cake, mulled cider, prime rib with Yorkshire pudding, boozy bread pudding, and fried quail with gravy. We circle back to New Years with a few cocktail party treats ~ shooters, chicken skewers, and pita wedges with dip.
Gooseberry Christmas Pantry, published in 2000. Lots of easy to make recipes abound in this Christmas themed cookbook.
Frosty Mornings begins the chapters and features waffles, French toast, pancakes, coffee cake, muffins, cinnamon rolls, oatmeal, egg dishes and breakfast casseroles, while the second set of recipes ~ Welcome Friends focuses on cheese balls, brie (baked), chicken wings, spinach squares, crab meat pastry shells, dips, salsas, puffs, meatball and spiced nuts.
In Hearty Holiday Fare, there are options for casseroles, quiche, pasta, meatloaf, salmon patties, pot roast, ribs and shrimp creole. The Christmas Sideboard offers ups lots of sides ~ vegetables, soups, salads, stews, coleslaw, breads, many rice dishes, chili, biscuits & rolls, stuffing and relishes.
The Dessert Sampler section is filled with so many yummy treats ~ from pies and cakes, to fruit pizza, fudge, caramel corn, brownies & cookies, plus pies, pudding, pralines and cheesecakes. Getting a bit crafty, Christmas in the Country has a few decor ideas: swags, greenery and garland, plus instruction on how to create an ice candle, while Homemade Gifts runs the gamut from soaps, ornament, wrapping paper, suet cakes and wreaths.
We end with Farmhouse Pantry and recipes for layered mixes ~ hot chocolate, cookies, soups, coffees & ciders and gingerbread men.
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