Gift Guide for Foodies
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With Christmas coming up, it is certainly gift-giving time. Starting now would honestly be a good idea with all of the challenges going on with receiving packages, you have to start early. Being a foodie myself, I thought, what would be the best gift to give someone? Hmmm. I know, cookbooks. In my gift guide for foodies, I decided that any and everything from America’s Test Kitchen would be a great gift. I am choosing to focus on two cookbooks in particular, one for the later seasons of the year (autumn and winter) and one with comfort food recipes.
The Complete Autumn & Winter Cookbook
From seasonal-ingredient-focused meals and desserts to one-pot dinners designed to help you eat well on those quiet, in-between days, The Complete Autumn and Winter Cookbook has a recipe to keep you and your family feeling recharged and satisfied no matter the occasion. Even when you’re not preparing to host, our Food Gifts section provides you with a selection of delicious treats to pass along to loved ones, such as Spiced Pecans with Rum Glaze or sugar cookie and chocolate layer cake mixes. You’ll also find chapters fully devoted to versatile, seasonal staples like apple and pumpkin. Plus, chapters organized by side dishes, double-take-worthy centerpieces, appetizers, festive drinks, and desserts help you to plan a menu that you’ll be eager to bring to the table.
One-Hour Comfort Cookbook
While the preference of dish might vary, comfort food as a whole encompasses what makes cooking so wonderful. Like a portal to your happy place, it can evoke fond memories of childhood, bring friends and family together around a table, or serve as the perfect addition to a relaxing night in. The downside of cooking when comfort-food cravings strike? Sometimes we don’t have time for the project of cooking our favorite comfort-food meals, causing us to cut corners, settle for less, or avoid the meal entirely.
Our new cookbook One-Hour Comfort offers up 170 favorite feel-good recipes that we’ve reengineered to be done in an hour (or less). There are a few recipes with cooling or chilling times that push them slightly over an hour–but we promise they’re worth it (chocolate cream pies in a jar . . . DEFINITELY worth it!). The book includes helpful hacks that break down how to complete traditionally time-intensive recipes in under an hour. An example of our test cook’s quick (cooking) thinking? Our Hoisin Glazed Meatloaf. Traditional meatloaf takes a long time to bake because of its sheer size. The solution to getting meatloaf on the table in less than an hour is simple: shrink it down to individual-size portions.
Which cookbook do you want to try?
