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Food Gifts &
Festive Recipes

Get festive! From appetizers to desserts, the following recipes will make your holiday table as jolly as a ride in Santa's sleigh.

Immediately below are recipes from our classic Global Holiday Pageant. We've also got popular Holiday Cookbooks, links to Holiday Ideas, a New Year's Eve Celebration party, holiday sweets from I Love Desserts, and everybody's favorite, Making a Turkey. You can also find specific recipes by using our Search page.

  

Global Holiday Pageant

• Appetizers from Around the World
• Buon Natale: Christmas Eve Italian Style
• Holiday Cocktails & Drinks
• Great Wines for Great Holidays
• Holiday Dinner Around the World
• The Hanukkah Table
• The Kwanzaa Table
• All-American Holiday Brunch
• Fat-Free Appetizer Table
• Sweets 'n Treats Table
• Desserts To Die For
• A Vegetarian Holiday Menu

  

Kate's Global Kitchen for the Holidays

Gift Wrap Tips

For holiday gift ideas, visit our Global Gourmet^® Shopping page.

Archives

Holiday Gift Guide 2010—Part I
Holiday Gift Guide 2010—Part II

2009 Holiday Gifts, Part I
2009 Holiday Gifts, Part II

Kate's Gift Ideas 2008
More Holiday Gifts—Green, Practical, and Tasty!

Kate's Gift Reviews 2007
Holiday Gift Guide 2007
Gifts, Appetizers, and the Pacific Northwest
Food Lover's Holiday Gift Guide 2006: Part One
Food Lover's Holiday Gift Guide 2006: Part Two
More Gifts for Holiday Pleasures

Virgin Cocktails and Virile Libations
Holiday Light: Veggie Dips 'n' Wonton Chips
Nuts to You: The Process of Toasting Nuts
Christmas Cheer For Cooks: Gift Guide 2004
Cutting Up, Cooking, and Looking Good
Wake Up, Eat Up, and Save the Leftovers!
Cook's Gadgets, Wine Tools, and "Harvesting the Dream"
Caviar Nachos, New Year Nibbles, and Trivial Tidbits

Chocolate Cheer
Holiday Cookies
Affordable New Year Nibbles
The Elemental Crème Anglaise
A Praline Primer
Nutmeg: A Gift from Grenada
Famous Last Words:
     The Lighter Side of Food
     (includes Cozy New Year's Recipes)

Gifts to Buy...
...Gifts to Make...
...Fancy Foods to Celebrate...
...A New Year's Buffet to Do Ahead...
...Ending the Year Well Read and Fed

  

Holiday Cookbooks

Gifts Cooks Love

• Recipes

  • Arrabbiata Sauce
  • Moroccan Spice Blend
  • Biscotti Christmas Tree

I'm Dreaming of a Chocolate Christmas

• Recipes

  • Hungarian Chocolate Walnut Roll
  • White Chocolate Kisses
  • Chocolate Dipped Pistachio Cigars

Christmas Sweets

• Recipes

  • Frosted Ornament Cookies
  • Cookie Tree Centerpiece
  • Fruit Vinegar Gifts

Betty Crocker Christmas Cookbook

• Recipes

  • Almond Bonbons
  • Praline Pumpkin Dessert

Happy Holidays

• Recipes

  • Spinach-Wrapped Chicken Bites with Sesame-Soy Dipping Sauce
  • Sesame-Soy Dipping Sauce
  • Butternut Squash Soup with Crab

Williams-Sonoma Holiday Entertaining

• Recipes

  • Antipasto Platter (Three Variations)
  • Leek Soup with Pancetta and Bread Crumbs
  • Baked Ham with Spiced Cider Glaze

Seriously Simple Holidays

Thanksgiving Planning Countdown

• Recipes

  • Winter Chopped Salad
  • Roast Duck Legs with Caramelized Shallots and Garlic
  • Savory Bread Pudding with Bacon, Peppers, and Spinach

Bubby's Homemade Pies

• Recipes

  • Bubby's All Butter Pastry Pie Dough
  • Bubby's All-Fruit Mincemeat
  • Small Mince Pocket Pies with Clotted Cream
  • Apple-Caramel Upside-Down Pie (Tarte Tatin)

The Complete Baking Cookbook

• Recipes

  • Orange Cranberry Cookies
  • Marble Layer Cake
  • Tiger Swirl Fudge

Baking

• Recipes & Tips

  • Dorie's Baking Hints
  • Sweet Tart Dough
  • Sour Cream Pumpkin Pie (or Tart)
  • The Most Extraordinary French Lemon Cream Tart

Joy of Cooking

• Recipes

  • Book Excerpt: About Ham...
  • Baked Ham
  • Raisin Sauce
  • Scalloped Potatoes

Vegan Holiday Kitchen

• Recipes

  • Pumpkin or Squash Mini-Loaves
  • Red Quinoa Pilaf with Kale and Corn
  • Moroccan-Flavored Tofu with Apricots and Olives

Fresh from the Market: Seasonal Cooking

• Recipes

  • Partridge Barbajuans
  • Roasted Pheasant with Braised Cabbage & Chestnuts
  • Pistachio-Crusted Venison with Caramelized Quince & Red Cabbage
  • Crispy Octopus & Cranberry Bean Salad
         with Blood Orange Vinaigrette

A Baker's Field Guide to Christmas Cookies

• Recipes

  • Anise Cookies (Bizcochitos)
  • Easy Christmas Wreaths

Christmastime Treats

• Recipes

  • A Candy Land House
  • Sugar 'n' Spice Coconut Snowballs
  • White Chocolate-Peppermint Swizzle Sticks

  

Holiday Ideas

Healthier Holiday Tips & Gingerbread Men Recipe

Wine & Cheese Party

• Fred McMillin's Party Picks
• My Blue Heaven Spread
• Creamy Gouda-Horseradish Spread

Easy, Exotic Indian Buffet

• Bengal Lancers Beef Curry Cubes
• Saffron Basmati Rice
• Cranberry-Golden Raisin Chutney
• Minty Raita-Style Cole Slaw

Christmas Weekend Salmon Gravlax

Italian Christmas Pie (Spongata)

• Festive but Faux Caviars
• Exquisite Eggplant Caviar
• Lone Star Caviar
• Mediterranean Black Olive Caviar

Kate's Virtual World Tour

• Holy Lands: Holiday Soul Food (Jerusalem)
• Italy: Angels on Strings (Venice)
• Desserts in Deutschland (Germany)
• Foie Gras in France

Eggnog Recipes

• Christmas Eggnog
• Apple Eggnog
• Ebenezer's Eggnog
• Eggnog
• White Chocolate Eggnog

  

New Year's Eve Celebration

• Setting Up a Champagne Bar and Champagne Trivia
• Best Champagnes from Under $15 to Unlimited
• New Year's Eve Dinner in "Casablanca"
• "Do-Ahead" New Year's Buffet
• Honey Walnut Candies (Gozinaki)

Mr. Boston Holiday Cocktails

Full Cocktail Recipe List

Party Snacks!

• Recipes

  • Caprese Pizza Puffs
  • Salmon-Dill Toasts
  • Savory Cannoli

 
  

I Love Desserts

• I Love Desserts Recipe Archives

Holiday Recipes:

• Christmas Butter Cookies (Weihnachtsgeback)
• Christmas Snowball Cookies
• Pfeffernüsse (Peppernut Cookies)
• Stollen
• Spritz Cookies II
• Chocolate Decadence II
• Chocolate-Filled Crescents
• Coconut Bonbons
• Open-faced Christmas Apple Pie
• All About Fruitcakes with Fruit Cake Recipes
• About Yule Logs
• Stump de Noël
• Marzipan Holly
• Meringue Mushrooms
• Holiday Sweets 'n Treats Table

  

Making a Turkey, or Need Ideas for a Big Dinner?

• From our archives:
• The Perfect Turkey Handbook
• The Thanksgiving No-Brainer (Good for any holiday meal!)
• Our Annual Thanksgiving Page (Lots of holiday recipes and ideas!)

 

Don't forget to use our Search engine to locate topics like Christmas or turkey.

Holiday and Party Recipes (by holiday and date)

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