Saving Dinner for the Holidays: Menus, Recipes, Shopping Lists, and Timelines for Spectacular, Stress-free Holidays and Family Celebrations
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Saving Dinner for the Holidays: Menus, Recipes, Shopping Lists, and Timelines for Spectacular, Stress-free Holidays and Family Celebrations

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Don’t Just Celebrate–Relax!

We all know that holidays are meant to be fun. But for the cook planning the feast, the holidays can inspire dread. Feeding the family on a daily basis is hard enough. Making the meal both special and delicious can raise the bar out of sight.

In Saving Dinner for the Holidays bona fide Dinner Diva Leanne Ely will show you that festive meals can be...more
Paperback, 240 pages
Published January 16th 2009 by Ballantine Books (first published October 25th 2005)
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Mandi
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I picked this up thinking it was about menu planning to survive the holiday time. Like from Thanksgiving through New Years.

Instead it's menu's for most all major holidays. Most big holidays I already have meals and recipes that have became traditional to my family. I was looking for ideas for handling the weeks in between the winter holidays.

Some lovely sounding recipes in the book. Especially for leftovers. But, it wasn't really what I was looking for. Certainly it'...more
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The Thanksgiving recipes are ones that I got online at FlyLady.net years ago and have used extensively. Because of this I thought I would check out this book and see what more was available with a thought of purchasing it. However, the Thanksgiving recipes are really the best of the bunch and many of the side dishes are used for more than one holiday. Her dressing, cranberry sauce, and secret to a perfect turkey are amazing and highly recommended!
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