The Pioneer Woman Cooks--A Year of Holidays: 140 Step-By-Step Recipes for Simple, Scrumptious Celebrations

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Brief Description:

#1 New York TimesBestseller

Ree Drummond accidental country girl, award-winning blogger, Food Network personality, and #1 New York Times bestselling author presents The Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays, a fantastic collection of recipes, photos, and homespun humor to help you celebrate all through the year.

Ree shows you how to ring in your favorite holidays with inspired menus for breakfasts, brunches, lunches, dinners, parties, deliveries, and feasts, accompanied by fun instructions and hundreds of her signature step-by-step photos. Filled with creative and flavorful ideas for intimate dinners, group gatherings, and family meals, The Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays includes dozens of mouthwatering dishes (with nineteen recipes for Thanksgiving alone!), helping home cooks create a variety of delights.

Whip up a Resolution Smoothie on New Year s Day; Whiskey BBQ Sliders and Dr Pepper Cupcakes for The Big Game; Glazed Ham for Easter; Watermelon Sangria for a sizzling Fourth of July cookout; and perfect Popcorn Balls on Halloween. For Christmas, Ree includes special homemade treats, including Caramel Apple Rolls, Christmas Rum Cake, and a selection of smile-inducing cookies, perfect for Christmas deliveries to family and friends.

Enjoy holidays all year round...Pioneer Woman style!"

There's nothing more delicious than a holiday.

Oh, is it ever true. Whether it's the anticipation of Christmastime or the ghoulish glee of Halloween, if I see a holiday on the horizon, I simply can't contain my excitement. There's just something about the traditions, the family togetherness, the resurfacing of childhood memories . . . the making of new ones. Holidays are wonderful, special, and fun . . . and they always make me happy.

And one more thing: They make me want to cook!

The Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays is an all-out celebration of the scrumptious, mouthwatering recipes that define our favorite occasions throughout the year. From luck-inducing Hoppin' John on New Year's Day, to a perfectly savory/sweet Glazed Easter Ham, to luscious Caramel Apples on Halloween, to a crowd-pleasing Thanksgiving feast with all the fixins, these pages are positively brimming with recipes guaranteed to make your holidays deliciously memorable . . . and memorably delicious!

Twelve different holidays are covered in delectable detail: From New Year's Day to New Year's Eve . . . and all my favorites in between. Host a party for the Big Game for your football-loving friends, make Mom a lovely Mother's Day breakfast-in-bed, invite your sweetie to a Valentine's Day romantic dinner for two . . . or ring in the New Year with a fabulous cocktail party. There's food, glorious food in this cookbook, and you won't run out of yummy things to make.

I hope you enjoy and devour every page!

"Who needs Julia Child? I've got Pioneer Woman." - Baltimore Sun

"An affecting new memoir . . . charming and romantic. Riotously funny . . . Drummond is . . . sure to have readers in tears and in stitches. In a word: delightful." - Publishers Weekly

"Charming and bright, Drummond's story will be an inspiration to those who despair of finding old-fashioned, lasting love." - Booklist

"Fans of Drummond's blog and cookbook will eat up this breathless blow-by-blow chronicle of falling in love with Marlboro Man, a.k.a. her husband, and adapting to life on his ranch. . . . Generous dollops of self-deprecating humor contribute a welcome tang." - People

"Mouthwatering .Step by step instructions are illustrated with photographs at each stage. Ranch style chicken, grilled cheese sandwiches and fancy macaroni and cheese will appeal to the reader's desire to cook hearty foods [and] Drummond makes exotic sounding dishes such as Italian Meatball Soup and Honey Plum Soy Chicken as simple as frying an egg" - Kirkus Reviews

# 3 on the Sunday Denver Post Bestseller list - Sunday Denver Post

#1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller - Wall Street Journal

#1 New York Times Bestseller - New York Times

#1 New York Times Bestseller

Ree Drummond--accidental country girl, award-winning blogger, Food Network personality, and #1 New York Times bestselling author--presents The Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays, a fantastic holiday cookbook collection of recipes, photos, and homespun humor to help you celebrate all through the year.

Ree shows you how to ring in your favorite holidays with inspired menus for breakfasts, brunches, lunches, dinners, parties, deliveries, and feasts, accompanied by fun instructions and hundreds of her signature easy-to-follow step-by-step photos. Filled with creative and flavorful ideas for intimate dinners, group gatherings, and family meals, The Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays includes dozens of mouthwatering dishes (with nineteen Thanksgiving recipes alone!), helping home cooks create a variety of delights.

Whip up a Resolution Smoothie on New Year's Day; Whiskey BBQ Sliders and Dr Pepper Cupcakes for The Big Game; Glazed Ham for Easter; Watermelon Sangria for a sizzling Fourth of July cookout; and perfect Popcorn Balls on Halloween. For Christmas, Ree includes special homemade treats and Christmas baking ideas, including Caramel Apple Rolls, Christmas Rum Cake, and a selection of smile-inducing cookies, perfect for Christmas deliveries to family and friends.

Enjoy holidays all year 'round...Pioneer Woman style!

This complete cookbook for holidays is your go-to guide for a full year of delicious celebrations:

• A Full Year of Feasts: From a New Year's Day Resolution Smoothie to a show-stopping Glazed Ham for Easter and spooky Popcorn Balls for Halloween, find creative menus for every occasion.
• Thanksgiving Solved: Take the stress out of the biggest meal of the year with nineteen mouthwatering recipes for everything from the turkey and sides to unforgettable desserts.
• Crowd-Pleasing Party Food: Become the perfect host with fun, flavorful ideas for gatherings, including Whiskey BBQ Sliders for the Big Game and Watermelon Sangria for the Fourth of July.
• Festive Homemade Treats: Whip up sweet, smile-inducing holiday desserts like Caramel Apple Rolls and Christmas Rum Cake, perfect for family celebrations or festive deliveries to friends.

Review Citations:

• Entertainment Weekly 11/22/2013 pg. 71 (EAN 9780062225221, Hardcover)
• Entertainment Weekly 12/13/2013 pg. 83 (EAN 9780062225221, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:Drummond, Ree

Ree Drummond is the author of eight New York Times bestselling cookbooks in the Pioneer Woman Cooks series, the New York Times bestsellers Frontier Follies and The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels, and many bestselling children's books. Her award-winning website, The Pioneer Woman, was founded in 2006, and her top-rated cooking show, The Pioneer Woman, premiered on Food Network in 2011. In the years that followed, Ree launched The Pioneer Woman Magazine, a well-loved line of kitchen and home products at Walmart, and a restaurant, bakery, store, and other businesses in her hometown of Pawhuska, Oklahoma. She lives on a working ranch with her husband, Ladd, and her adult kids, sons-in-law, and new granddaughter all come home for family meals whenever they can!