A Lazy Cook's Christmas: Mouthwatering Recipes for the Time-pressured Cook (Lazy Cook) - Softcover

Mo Smith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0954231929 ISBN 13: 9780954231927

Publisher: Lazy Cook Mo Smith, 2002

Synopsis

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Synopsis

'A Lazy Cook's Christmas' makes the most perfect stocking filler or small gift - healthier than a box of chocolates and longer lasting than a bottle of wine. The recipes promote healthy eating and many are made from off the shelf and store cupboard ingredients.The suggested menus (listed under the following headings), help you to plan ahead leaving plenty of time for you to enjoy Christmas and join in the fun and activity. Extracts from 'A Lazy Cook's Christmas' Come for the weekend! It is not unusual for me to invite visitors for a weekend just before Christmas. It seems to me a good time to get together with family or friends, a time to relax and to reflect, and to gently get into the rhythm of Christmas and I can think of no better place to do this than round a table sharing a meal. The Lazy cook recipes I have selected for such a weekend enable you to serve meals which look attractive and taste good but take the minimum of time to prepare. Careful shopping and just a little preparation before the visitors arrive will be time well spent and will ensure a happy and relaxed weekend for everyone. A Lazy Cook's Christmas Day Despite all the extra activities involved on Christmas Day and the many meals and extra little luxuries expected, my duties as head cook are almost reduced to as little as roasting the turkey and cooking the sprouts. How can this be so, you may ask. Look through my Christmas Day menus, read the recipes and the useful tips given with them and you will discover how easy it is to enjoy a traditional family Christmas if a little advance planning and preparation is done. The rewards, I promise, are far greater than the effort needed. Boxing Day Our Boxing day usually starts late and is mostly taken up with a long walk with friends and neigbbours. Towards the end of the walk thoughts turn to ginger wine and something nice to eat. The menu I suggest is intended to give the cook another day out of the kitchen. The meal can be prepared by anyone who can handle a knife, a chopping board and a saucepan and who happends to be first up. Let's have a party! Christmas is party time and one of the easiest ways I know of entertaining lots of people is to give a 'Soup and Mincepie' party. Although the preparation is minimal everyone leaves feeling well satisfied, if not replete. 'Soup and Mincepie' parties are also a very easy and enjoyable way to fund raise. New Year's Eve Dinner Party I always look forward to our New Year's Eve dinner party. There are usually between eight and ten of us and at the end of the meal, which is often around 11.30p.m. we all don our outdoor clothes and walk across the road to church in time to hear the bells ring in the new year. We take mincepies and Christmas cake and drinks for the ringers. A single bell striking midnight in a church on New Year's eve is a most poignant moment and a wonderful place to be.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lazy Cook Mo Smith
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0954231929
• ISBN 13: 9780954231927
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 65