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This book by Mail on Sunday writer Annie Bell spans the days in the run-up to Christmas, with tips on things to make and give, easy hand-me-rounds to have with drinks, recipes for big warming pies, luxurious treats and after-dinner choices. Contains more than 100 recipes. --The Daily Mail
Review of All Gold Christmas Cake: 'Simple but special: This lovely cake does away with fiddly icing and instead relies on delicious homemade marzipan to make it look fantastically festive.' --Christmas Magazine
'Gorgeous Christmas' is a must for anybody entertaining this Christmas. Packed full of delightful festive offerings, Annie Bell never disappoints. (Choice magazine) 'The latest offering in the 'Gorgeous' series from WFI contributor Annie Bell will make cooking over the winter holidays as delicious and fluster-free as possible. She covers the traditional Christmas Day dinner, and offers plenty of other great winter roasts, warming pies and ideas for leftovers. --Waitrose Food Illustrated
Review of All Gold Christmas Cake: 'Simple but special: This lovely cake does away with fiddly icing and instead relies on delicious homemade marzipan to make it look fantastically festive.' --Christmas Magazine
'Gorgeous Christmas' is a must for anybody entertaining this Christmas. Packed full of delightful festive offerings, Annie Bell never disappoints. (Choice magazine) 'The latest offering in the 'Gorgeous' series from WFI contributor Annie Bell will make cooking over the winter holidays as delicious and fluster-free as possible. She covers the traditional Christmas Day dinner, and offers plenty of other great winter roasts, warming pies and ideas for leftovers. --Waitrose Food Illustrated
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Most of us start planning what we will do for Christmas months in advance of the event. In fact, nothing short of gorgeous will do. And here are over a hundred recipes to ensure that it is just that. In keeping with the other titles in the series, they are simple and pared down, cookable and they work, because the last thing we need is to feel flustered or let down. The book spans the days in the run up, the magic of Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. There is a chapter on things to make and give, easy hand-me-rounds to have with drinks, recipes for big warming pies, luxurious treats and after dinner choices, as well as lots of ideas for Christmas dinner itself. With chapters on Christmas puddings and baking, trifles and jellies, and with plenty of White Christmas magic thrown in, Annie Bell's fail-safe recipes ensure your Christmas is as gorgeous as anticipated.
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36 of 37 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have all the books written by Annie Bell with "Gorgeous" in the title and I think this is a very worthy successor. "Gorgeous Cakes" is probably my favourite cake-making book, out of my extensive collection of cake books, and I can see this one being top of the pile of Christmas cookery books that I treasure - every page I turn makes my mouth water! Annie's recipes are classy, delicious and just that little bit different, and so far they all work beautifully. And in fact this book was worth having just for the Christmas Cake recipe without added sugar - at last a cake my diabetic mother can enjoy! I think this book is wonderful, and I shall certainly be buying some more copies as presents between now and Christmas. Thank you Annie, you never let me down!
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I loved this book, which I think could almost be better titled "A Gorgeous Christmas Season". That's because, unlike many other Christmas cookbooks, this could be used from the beginning of November to cook ordinary dinners, as well as covering the big day itself thoroughly. For example, although the book begins with a plethora of canapés that actually look sufficiently unfiddly for me to imagine I could make them, that chapter is followed by one on pies which you could imagine using every day. Yes, of course you'll only get round to that wonderfully adult duck and pistachio terrine once a year, but the beef, brandy and chestnut pie, and venison carbonade, would make gorgeous dishes for a winter dinner party.
She also gives a few recipes I've wanted my whole life - since I was a little girl, I have had a mouthwatering memory of a restaurant in Cornwall where they served a salmon en croute. She has the actual recipe, flavouring the salmon with currants, tarragon, ginger and shallots. If you have a pescatarian Christmas coming up, this dish is to die for. And finally we get to see how French people cook their Christmas day Turbot!!
The bird recipes are all very tempting with some nice stuffings, the ham is glazed with Earl Grey (mmmmm) or sherry and quince jelly (mmmmmmmm). I'm not totally in love with her vegetarian suggestion, a squash containing veg, but that's only because I have a personal bugbear against veggie recipes that contain too many starchy veg and stop you filling up on roasties and stuffing. There is also a "homage to nut roast" made of spinach, almonds and goat's cheese, I will have to try making.
Apart from these essentials, the trimmings are all in the book too, from cranberry sauce to giblet gravy. And there's pages of devious ways with the leftovers like Coronation Turkey and ham hash. Amongst the puddings there are classics, and then some totally new things which make you think twice about opting for tradition - a white chocolate cheesecake, a cranberry and orange parfait (so posh), and a lovely cranberry jelly too. The cakes are good too, with some excellent decorating suggestions, and again, because I'm a bit of a Francophile, it's great to have a recipe for Galette du Roi, the French cake for the 6th Jan which helps you string Christmas out that little bit longer. If you are a total obsessive such as myself.
All in all a lovely book and I hope I've given some sense of the general flavour of it, the range of it. I haven't tried any recipes yet as it only arrived yesterday, but Annie Bell's reputation as an utterly reliable food writer does precede her and I wouldn't worry about trusting any of these. I think this is a very down-to-earth Christmas book with things you can actually imagine making, rather than just staring at the pictures wistfully. I thought it was very grown-up, in fact, catering for those who imagine a slightly more sophisticated Christmas, and I really hope it becomes an Xmas favourite.
She also gives a few recipes I've wanted my whole life - since I was a little girl, I have had a mouthwatering memory of a restaurant in Cornwall where they served a salmon en croute. She has the actual recipe, flavouring the salmon with currants, tarragon, ginger and shallots. If you have a pescatarian Christmas coming up, this dish is to die for. And finally we get to see how French people cook their Christmas day Turbot!!
The bird recipes are all very tempting with some nice stuffings, the ham is glazed with Earl Grey (mmmmm) or sherry and quince jelly (mmmmmmmm). I'm not totally in love with her vegetarian suggestion, a squash containing veg, but that's only because I have a personal bugbear against veggie recipes that contain too many starchy veg and stop you filling up on roasties and stuffing. There is also a "homage to nut roast" made of spinach, almonds and goat's cheese, I will have to try making.
Apart from these essentials, the trimmings are all in the book too, from cranberry sauce to giblet gravy. And there's pages of devious ways with the leftovers like Coronation Turkey and ham hash. Amongst the puddings there are classics, and then some totally new things which make you think twice about opting for tradition - a white chocolate cheesecake, a cranberry and orange parfait (so posh), and a lovely cranberry jelly too. The cakes are good too, with some excellent decorating suggestions, and again, because I'm a bit of a Francophile, it's great to have a recipe for Galette du Roi, the French cake for the 6th Jan which helps you string Christmas out that little bit longer. If you are a total obsessive such as myself.
All in all a lovely book and I hope I've given some sense of the general flavour of it, the range of it. I haven't tried any recipes yet as it only arrived yesterday, but Annie Bell's reputation as an utterly reliable food writer does precede her and I wouldn't worry about trusting any of these. I think this is a very down-to-earth Christmas book with things you can actually imagine making, rather than just staring at the pictures wistfully. I thought it was very grown-up, in fact, catering for those who imagine a slightly more sophisticated Christmas, and I really hope it becomes an Xmas favourite.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Avoid this like the plaque. I am an experienced cook and rarely have problems but every recipe I have tried from this book so far has been incorrect in some way. I wonder if the recipes have been properly tried and tested?
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Gorgeous Christmas
I bought this book because I admired Annie Bell's recipes in newspapers. I saw recipes of hers I liked in 'You' Magazine #Mail on Sunday supplement# and at the end of the article... Read more
Published on 4 Feb 2010 by Barbara-Ann
Gorgeous Christmas
A very visually pleasing cookbook. Full of the traditional christmas fare and though I have not yet tried the recipies it is by the chair to start working out the menu. Read more
Published on 12 Nov 2009 by Bookaholic
Ok, but not fantastic
I own all the other cookbooks in the gorgeous series and absolutely love them, so I was eagerly awaiting this one as well. Read more
Published on 8 Nov 2009 by Ssm Van Wezel
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