Quick and Easy Holiday Treats with Style (Food, Family & Friends Cookbook series)

These innovative cookbooks are devoted to celebrating wonderful food and a contemporary sense of style on a budget. Provided are recipes for delicious and easy holiday treats, entrees, and salads and breads that take fewer than 20 minutes to prepare and present with flair. Appropriate for both novice and experienced cooks, all of these recipes use ingredients commonly found on supermarket shelves. Each recipe is accompanied by nutritional information and diabetic food exchanges. The fun presentation ideas suggested use basic supplies found in supermarkets and mass merchandise stores, enabling cooks to create meal presentations worthy of Martha Stewart on a family budget. About the Author: Edie Hand is an actress who has starred in nationally syndicated commercials, as well as on the daytime soap opera As the World Turns . She cohosted Total Wellness for Women with Dr. Judy Kuriansky and has appeared on Sally Jesse Raphael , Live with Regis and Kathie Lee , TNN, CNBC, the Home Shopping Network, and the Food Network. She hosted a midday talk show for Crawford Broadcasting; has been the national spokesperson for Unilever/Best Foods' product line Mazola Canola Oil and for Barber's Dairies; and cohosts News U Can Use with Ken Glickman of Bottom Line Personal . She lives in Dora, Alabama. Darlene Real is a professional photography stylist, fashion expert, and public speaker. She is a member of the National Speakers Association and International Platform Association and is a former instructor and booking agent for the John Casablancas Modeling School. She is currently a wardrobe strategist and host of a morning television show in Alabama. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama. Debra Lustrea is a commercial interior designer and chef. She lives in Chicago. Copyright ......Page 3 Table of Contents ......Page 9 Cakes......Page 11 Chocolate Cake......Page 13 Coconut Cake......Page 15 Easy Red Velvet Cake......Page 17 Harvest Carrot Cake......Page 19 Jody’s Boston Cream Pie......Page 21 No-Bake Cherry Cheesecake (Low Sugar)......Page 23 Quick and Easy Rum Fruit Cake......Page 25 The Luck of the Irish Pistachio Cake......Page 27 Cookies/Squares......Page 29 Bakeless Cookies......Page 31 Cake Mix Cookies......Page 33 Chewy Butterscotch Squares......Page 35 Cracker Cookies......Page 37 Diabetic Cookies......Page 39 Jordanaire’s Best Chocolate Syrup Brownies......Page 41 Linc’s Tarts......Page 43 Mexican Wedding Cookies......Page 45 Peanutty Ice Cream Sandwiches......Page 47 Peppermint Meringues......Page 49 Surprise Meringues......Page 50 Gingerbread House......Page 51 Pies......Page 53 Apple Pie......Page 55 Chess Pie......Page 57 Coconut Pie......Page 59 Light Banana Pie......Page 61 Mandarin Ice Box Pie......Page 63 Pecan Pie......Page 65 The Derby Pie......Page 67 Whistle Stop Tart Lemon Pie......Page 69 Other Desserts......Page 71 Best Bananas Foster......Page 73 Bud’s Original Banana Pudding......Page 75 Caramel Popcorn Balls......Page 77 Cinnamon Bread Pudding (Low Sugar)......Page 79 Flavored Buns......Page 81 Frozen Fruit Kabobs......Page 83 Low-fat Chocolate Dessert......Page 85 Ohh! Pumpkin Pie Dessert......Page 87 Old-Fashioned Bread Pudding......Page 89 Orange Sherbet Salad......Page 91 Miscellaneous Treats and Holiday Drinks......Page 93 Apple-Bulgur Poultry Stuffing......Page 95 Fried Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches......Page 97 Hannukah Potato Latkes (Pancakes)......Page 99 Moore’s Party Fixins’......Page 101 Pineapple Crunch Casserole......Page 103 Sugar-Free Fresh Applesauce......Page 105 Tart Casserole......Page 107 Mrs. Nolon’s Amish Friendship Bread......Page 109 Low-Fat Fruit Smoothies......Page 113 Skinny Peach Blend......Page 114 Holiday Chocolate Coffee......Page 115 Purple Reindeer......Page 117 Snow-Fu-Tofu Shake......Page 119 Holiday Do’s & Don’ts......Page 121 Conversion Tables......Page 123 Cooking Tips......Page 125 About the Authors ......Page 129 Быстрые и лёгкие блюда , серия книг - рецепты блюд на приготовление которых уйдёт меньше 20 минут.Рецепты салатов , выпечка хлеба , праздничные блюда и т.д.Книга ч/бFinally, Holiday Treats without the guilt! Clear, easy-to-follow instructions combined with creative styling ideas. -- Chef Susan Notter, executive director vice president culinard, the Culinary Institute of Virginia College