Gifts from the Kitchen For Dummies by Swenson, Andrea -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Contents Introduction

How to Use This Book How This Book is Organized Icons and Symbols Used in This Book A Few Guidelines Before You Begin

Part I : Getting Started: The Why, What, When, and How Chapter 1: It’s More Than the Thought That Counts

Discovering the Joys of Making Your Own Gifts Gaining the Confidence to Get Started Finding Reasons to Give the Gift of Food Packaging It Up and Sending It Off

Chapter 2: To Market, To Market: Stocking Your Pantry

Using the Best Ingredients Storing Extra Ingredients for Making Last-Minute Gifts

Chapter 3: Selecting Tools for Your Kitchen

Getting to the Point about Knives Shopping for Pots and Pans, or As They Say in Paree, “Batterie de Cuisine” Measuring, Mixing, and Other Helpful Tools Baker’s Delights Plugged In: Choosing Electric Appliances

Chapter 4: Technique 101

Measuring Sifting Slicing and Dicing Separating Eggs Mixing Ingredients Preparing Pans Using the Stovetop and Oven

Part II : Magnificent Mouthfuls Chapter 5: Chocolate: Life Vest for the Soul

Introducing the Varieties of Chocolate Preparing to Melt Chocolate Oh, Fudge — It’s Grainy! O.M.G. Fudge Easy Chocolate Treat 1-2-3 Milk Chocolate Chunky Clusters Brownies, Cupcakes, Black Forest Bites Not-So-Basic Brownies No-Bake Black Forest Bites Peanut Butter and Chocolate Dimple Cupcakes A Triumvirate of Chocolate Sauces — They Rule! Malted Milk Chocolate Sauce Deep Dark Chocolate Sauce Very Vanilla White Chocolate Sauce Desserts Freckled Chocolate, Cinnamon, and Hazelnut Biscotti White Chocolate Coeur à la Crème with Fresh Strawberry Balsamic Sauce Fresh Strawberry Balsamic Sauce Alive-and-Kicking Chocolate Gateau Chocolate Truffles

Chapter 6: Sweet Celebrations

Visions of Sugar Plums: Getting Ready to Make Candy You’re Ready to Roll: Candy Recipes Piña Colada Candies Easy Alabaster Mints Microwave Kaffee Klatsch Nut Candy Benne Seed Candy Balsamic Vinegar Candy Toast-of-the-Town Big Apples on a Stick Candy Sushi Tea Party Sugar Cubes

Chapter 7: Cookies and Their Cousins

Presenting Crispy Froths, Granola Bars, and Shortbread Crispy Cappuccino Froths Anzac Granola Bars Lemon-Cardamom Shortbread Moving On: Mandelbrot and Eggnog Cookies Almond and Date Mandelbrot Eggnog Cookies Don’t Overlook Two Party-Going Wafers Frico Cheese Crisps Savory Walnut-Pepper Digestives Fortunate Choices for You and Fido Fortune Cookies Fido’s Fetching Bones

Part III : Over the Top: Flavorful Sauces and Spreads Chapter 8: We’ve Got You Covered: Sauces, Syrups, and Flavored Butters and Sugar

The Bold and the Beautiful: Sauces with Attitude Happy Hubby Steak Sauce Chimichurri Steak Sauce Using Fruit to Flavor Syrups Pear-Cranberry Compote Blissful Blueberry Citrus Syrup Customizing Your Sugar and Butter Stash Vanilla-Flavored Sugar Scallion Butter

Chapter 9: Preserving the Seasons: Gems under Glass

All Dressed Up and Ready to Go: Flavored Oil and Vinegar Chive-Flavored Oil Berry-Berry Vinegar Relishing the Thought of Scrumptious Spreads Grainy Apricot Mustard Hot Diggity Dog Relish Banana-Mango Chutney Strawberry-Pineapple Jam Rhubarb-Fig Conserve Sweet Onion Marmalade Scarborough Fair Herb Jelly

Part IV : Into the Mixing Bowl Chapter 10: Let Them Eat Cake . . . and Pies

Bake Me a Cake as Fast as You Can Pecan-Cream Cheese Pound Cake Bountiful Fruitcake with Almond Paste “Wrapping Paper” Almond Paste “Wrapping Paper” Buttermilk-Streusel Coffee Cake Filling the Seasons with Pie Orange Cannoli Pie Lemon-Lime Icebox Pie Plum-Almond Tart

Chapter 11: A Loaf of Bread and Thou

Making Quick Breads — Time Is on Your Side Banana-Blueberry Bread Mock Devon Cream Chili-Cheese Muffin Loaf Prosciutto-Fig Quick Bread Pineapple-Ginger Scones Let’s Have a Tea Party Yeast Breads: Rising to the Next Level Cranberry-Walnut Monkey Bread Jumbo Pretzels Oat and Ale Bread

Chapter 12: Hearty Party Fare: Dips, Spreads, and Cheesy Things

Going Nuts Curried Cashews Barbecue Almonds Dipping into a World of Flavor Shrimp in Green-Sauce Dip South-of-Somewhere Salsa Red Pepper Hummus Two Tales of a City Downtown Lox Spread Uptown Smoked Salmon Spread Pâté 101 Extending the Olive Branch Marinated Olives Provençal Cheese and Olive Bites Layered Goat Cheese Mold

Chapter 13: Mixes — the Gift of Time

Making Mixes for Everyone Bloody Mary Mix Mulled Cider Mix Hot Chocolate Mix Thai Bean Soup Mix U.S. Senate Bean Soup Mix Basic Cookie Mix Rise-and-Shine Waffle Mix Label Me Easy

Part V : Tying Up Loose Ends: Wrapping, Packaging, and Mailing Chapter 14: Wrap Rap

Edible Containers Courtesy of Nature Edible Containers Courtesy of You Pepparkakor Bowl Pastillage Containers Chocolate Nest Shopping for a Few of Your Favorite Things Putting Thought into Your Gifts Waxing Poetic

Chapter 15: Over the River and Through the Woods: Delivering the Goods

Some Gifts Travel Easily and Some Don’t Packing the Gift Up, Up, and Away

Part VI : The Part of Tens Chapter 16: Ten Great Gift Baskets

Guys’ Night Midnight Icebox Raid Visit a City Friend Sunday Brunch Young at Heart Dashing thru the Snow Gay Paree Right-O Home on the Range Girls’ Night Out

Chapter 17: Ten-Plus Web Sites to Shop for Food and Inspiration

Penzeys Spices The Baker’s Catalog EthnicGrocer.com Chef Shop.com Ideal Cheese Shop Murray’s Cheese Shop Kalustyan’s Dean & Deluca Skinner’s Nuts Chocosphere Wellcat.com

Chapter 18: Ten-Plus Places to Buy Cooking Gear and Wrapping Supplies

Bridge Kitchenware Surfas Sweet Celebrations Kitchen Krafts Cooking.com GM Cake and Candy Supplies Sur La Table Williams-Sonoma Cookie Cutter Collectibles The Container Store Buygiftbox.com RibbonShop.com Bags & Bows Gift Box of America

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