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