Delicious Gatherings: Recipes to Celebrate Together - Hardcover

by Tara Teaspoon (Author)

Here is your invitation to step into the kitchen and create a meal worth remembering! Tara Teaspoon helps you impress guests and gather friends around your table with recipes for elevated everyday meals and special holidays, plus helpful tips and how-tos. This cookbook aims to bring joy, flair, and amazing taste to all your get-togethers.

From Sunday suppers and weeknight family meals to elaborate buffets for bigger crowds and holiday celebrations, Tara's recipes include delicious showstoppers and unique takes on comforting classics. You can gather together around savory recipes, including Spicy Maple Sweet Potatoes with Cinnamon Pepitas or the Ultimate Chili con Queso. Then bring on dessert with Chocolate Peanut Butter Puddle Cookies or Maple Hazelnut Pie.

Tara brings her comforting-but-elevated approach to recipes that cover "Main Events," "Serious Sides," "Breakfast and Brunch," and "Baking and Sweets." The book opens with "Gather-Around Dinners," which takes the stress out of meal planning with full-course menus for memorable gatherings.

Author Biography

Tara Bench has been in the food publishing industry for more than twenty years and is also the author of Live Life Deliciously: Recipes for Busy Weekdays and Leisurely Weekends. As a recipe developer and professional food stylist, she creates food content for brands, books, television, and advertising, as well as shares her expertise on her blog, TaraTeaspoon.com.

She was the food and entertaining director of Ladies' Home Journal magazine and a food editor at Martha Stewart Living, Kids, and Weddings magazines. She frequently shares her expertise on TV, and has appeared on the Martha Stewart show, The Today Show, and the Food Network as a contestant and show judge. Tara encourages confidence in the kitchen with her attainable recipes for entertaining and everyday meals.