So Much to Celebrate by Katie Jacobs

So Much To Celebrate: Entertaining The Ones You Love The Whole Year Through
Entertaining the ones you love the whole year through

Wow!! It's beautiful. And big. Gorgeous pictures. Yummy looking food. These are all descriptions that could be used to describe this book. A nice big hardcover book, I would guess about a 9x10 size, with nice thick pages full of beautiful photographs, decorating ideas, and yummy looking recipes, it's a cook's delight.

I love to look at books like this. They make me want to throw a party and celebrate something, do some cooking, make something extravagant. There are some delicious sounding recipes in here, like cherry hand pies, blackberry cobbler with homemade vanilla ice cream, key lime coconut bars, ham and swiss croissants with poppy-seed mustard, and so on and so on. Yum, yum, yum. There are tips for breakfast in bed, hostess gifts, wrapping any gift, and doing a smores bar. There are decorating, styling tips for a mother's day brunch, bridal showers, wine tasting, tailgating, even a milkshake party, and so much more. Each party has a menu list, a get the look section (decorating ideas), and an enjoy the party section. Not all the recipes are included for every menu, but there is a section at the end of every season with additional recipes, plus a menu list at the back of the book.

One of the very handy things in this book is Katie has little tips throughout on recipes that can be made ahead and how to do it to keep everything fresh and tasty. I really like that.

On the negative side of this book, to fully pull off a party like she suggests, you need a padded wallet and a big house. I can't afford to buy new tableware for every different kind of party I want to throw, nor would I have the space to store it afterwards. Nor can I afford to have specialty invites custom designed for a party either, at least not on a regular basis. She also hosted a lot of these parties at various venues around the area in Tennessee, again not necessarily suited to someone on a budget. However, I can get some good ideas for decorating and do a much simpler style.  I also would have liked more nonalcoholic beverage recipes.

I received this book from Book Look Bloggers and was not required to write a positive review.

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