Holiday Cooking Season is Here – Ready, Set, Go!

Holiday Cooking Season is Here – Ready, Set, Go!

Flavors & More Magazine has the advice, tips, recipes and strategies to make your holiday season special and stress free

All over the land, home cooks, restaurant chefs and talented eaters are gearing up to prepare and enjoy turkey, goose, standing rib roasts, cranberry side dishes, desserts and pumpkin everything. Cookie recipes are being swapped and dug out of shoe boxes in the pantry. Potential party hosts are scouring sources for a bright new cocktail or special wines to surprise their guests. At Flavors & More, we know the drill and we’re standing by with the help you want for this wonderful holiday season of cooking and entertaining. Chef Judi Gallagher shares her recipe for no-fail gravy that is smooth and full of flavor. She prepares it on television every year in her home city. Chef Judi also has menu ideas for Paleo Pilgrims this year as well as holiday side dishes that are as tempting as they are easy to prepare.

Wine connoisseur Robert Paul offers two wines to try for the holiday season and has strategies for entertaining with spirits at your house over the holidays. Marsha Fottler chimes in with easy-to-make gourmet desserts from a brand new cookbook and she suggests a meat addition to your Thanksgiving table. Make room, turkey, you’re going to have the share the menu with a delectable pork roast that can be made a day ahead.

Buying a new stove to celebrate the holidays? Don’t do it until you read what kitchen expert Steven V. Philips has to say. He has news and observations about how the induction cooktop works and why you might want one.

And if you want to do some armchair traveling and you have a taste for award-winning barbecue, don’t miss Doc Lawrence's column is Dining with Frank Sinatra and Jack Daniel. It's not a joke. Jack Daniel's honored one of the fabled libation's best friends with a new release called Sinatra Select, part of the 25th Jack Daniel's World Championship Barbecue Competition where Doc serves as a veteran judge. Ol Blue Eyes had a bottle of Jack Daniel's buried with him, according to Doc. Read all about it.

Flavors & More is a monthly online cooking magazine dedicated to the pleasures of the table realized through recipes, libations, travel, books, gardens, entertaining and insightful features that celebrate food and all those who gather together to share meals and memories. When you have an appetite for a bountiful buffet of useful stories by an award-winning staff, we have what it takes to satisfy that hunger. We are Flavors & More and you can find us at mycookingmagazine.com. Read, enjoy, subscribe and post a comment. And be sure to check out our videos and our Facebook page.

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