Cooking Up Christmas
By Mimi Riser
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About this ebook
Scrumptious holiday recipes, plus a Christmas short story as a special bonus... Good food and good cheer! Festive fare that’s sure to delight. This is a little book that’s big on warmth and color. It focuses on variety and culinary vivacity, taking some of our classic holiday foods and doing delicious new things with them (but without getting too complicated). Some of the dishes are sweet, some are savory, some are a bit of both. All are easy to prepare, and almost too easy to eat. Add in the bonus short story, and you’ve got food for the soul as well – all the joyful inspiration you need to start cooking up Christmas!
Mimi Riser
Mimi Riser is a longtime author of fiction and nonfiction, including several series and spanning a variety of genres (with flavors ranging from sweet to spicy hot). Her books celebrate the upbeat, the offbeat, and “beating the odds.” She began life in the urban northeast, but now resides in the rural southwest with her best friend & husband Rob.
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Cooking Up Christmas - Mimi Riser
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COOKING UP CHRISTMAS
Mimi Riser
www.mimiriser.com
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2012 by Mimi Riser
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Opening Words
The Recipes:
Creamy Cranberry Topping
Carrot Coriander Dip
Hot & Spicy Sweet Potato Sticks
Pumpkin Gravy
Brandied Apple Onion Sauté
Honey Spiced Winter Veggies
Confetti Corn with Lemon Butter
Festive Red & Green Beans
Holiday Ham & Cheese Casserole
Turkey Morocco
Creamy Spiced Pumpkin Soup
Coconut Cornbread
Whole Wheat Maple Muffins
Orange Gingerbread
Cranberry Walnut Bread Pudding
Sweet Potato Raisin Rice Pudding
Canned Fruit Cake
Almond Joy to the World
Brownies
No-bake Chocolate Cherry Cheese Pie
Double-decker Pumpkin Pecan Pie
Special bonus short story:
Joy to the Worlds
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Opening Words…
Dieters, beware. If you’re stoically counting calories, you have two choices right now. Either stop reading this book—or, better yet, stop dieting until after New Year’s. (That’s why New Year’s, with its resolutions,
follows Christmas, right? So we can resolve to lose the weight we gained over the holidays.) Let’s face it, from the ancient festival of Yule to our modern-day