Perhaps this cookbook should have gone up before Thanksgiving, but the menu for that dinner and Christmas dinner is roughly the same and the holiday season is about more than two meals, so there is plenty of time to make good use of Allrecipes Tried & True Thanksgiving & Christmas: Top 200 Recipes. There are menu planners and variations on traditional foods, as well as the traditional recipes themselves. Since the scope of the book is limited to the end-of-the-year holidays, most everything is fall oriented and suitable for big dinners or serving at other types of gatherings. For example, the recipes cover all meals, including breakfast and desserts, in addition to mains, sides and starters. There is even a section on things that make great holiday gifts. The instructions are clear and easy to follow for every recipe and the ingredients tend to be mainstream ones. Some highlights include: Apple Cranberry Crisp, Christmas Breakfast Sausage Casserole, Easy Herb Roasted Turkey, Tangy Honey-Glazed Ham, Orange Pumpkin Loaf and Eggnog Cheesecake.
The reason to appreciate Allrecipes' cookbooks is the same reason to appreciate their site: user feedback. You may not see all the comments in the book the way you will online (although you can look them up there if you want to, as well), but you can feel pretty confident knowing that they were popular with tens of thousands of users and home cooks.
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