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Everyday Celebrations From Scratch

Easy Recipes and Crafts for Everyday Celebrations

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1 of 2 copies available
1 of 2 copies available

Spend time together as a family making fun crafts, baking delicious treats, and building memories for years to come. Elevate the ordinary and make every day special with your kids.

Everyday Celebrations from Scratch is filled to the brim with impressive (yet ridiculously easy) recipes, step-by-step craft tutorials, and inspirational ideas to set the scene—all to help you create the life and memories you want. Each section of the book provides inspiration for both food and do-it-yourself (DIY) projects, so you can invest minimum time for maximum impact!

Discover how fun it can be to . . .

Celebrate Weeknight Meals with:

  • Delicious, fun meals and desserts like loaded veggie nachos, creamy Tuscan salmon, and homemade waffle cone dessert tacos
  • Fun DIY projects like painted and personalized place mats and homemade confetti
  • Tips for how to make breakfast boards, upgrade your takeout, or how to have family fun by intentionally making a mess!
  • Celebrate Family with:

  • Creative kid time that incorporates fun treats like ice cream in a bag with homemade sprinkles
  • Family picnics with DIY personalized tables and yummy fruit and brownie Kabobs
  • Tasty family favorite recipes like mom's German pancakes and chocolate peanut butter bonbons
  • Celebrate Friendship with

  • Creative DIY crafts like custom bookmarks for your reading club or wine glass tags for a girl's night in
  • Tips for grazing boards and book club topics
  • Delectable treats to savor together like angel food cake trifle in a wine glass or sparkling blackberry mint water.
  • Celebrate Sports with:

  • Tips for tailgate success or planning a winning field day
  • DIY crafts to cheer on your team and celebrate like canvas banners, trophies, or felt pennants
  • Yummy treats like fried pickles and dips, caprese pasta salad, or chicken kabobs
  • Celebrate Seasons with:

  • Outdoorsy DIY projects camp signs or flannel drink sleeves and coasters
  • Tips for backyard campout success or how to make a snow day fun
  • Satisfying seasonal treat recipes like grilled corn salad, pumpkin pizza, and turkey chili
  • Everyday Celebrations from Scratch gives you the ideas and inspiration you need to make every moment count with your family. Everyday celebrations are the foundations of memories that last a lifetime, and now you will have what you need to get started and see just how easy it can be!

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      • Library Journal

        March 11, 2022

        Provenzano's visually attractive guide to entertaining is filled with party ideas for all ages--craft projects, party ideas, food menus, and recipes (from the author's Italian and Midwestern American roots). She writes that the book should reflect an ethos of present mindfulness, celebrating the small moments of everyday life. Each chapter follows the same format: an introductory essay, a small craft project, recipes for the celebration, and useful tips interspersed throughout. The book emphasizes DIY as opposed to buying pre-made items, but the lists of tools and supplies for each celebration are lengthy, and some items are expensive and may be hard to locate; it would have greatly benefited from adding a list of sources to find tricky items or suggestions for substitutions that may be more readily available. Another weakness is a lack of safety and sanitation procedures, critical in this COVID-conscious era. The section on beverages has cocktail recipes but no mocktails, and the book doesn't suggest vegan- or allergy-friendly substitutions. VERDICT A useful resource to cull ideas, with the caveat that its advice mostly applies to homes with ample storage space, budgets, and time. An optional purchase.--Marjorie Mann

        Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

      • Booklist

        April 1, 2022
        With 100 how-to's from recipes to crafts, Provenzano offers a variety of ways to celebrate friends and family and "commemorate all the good in your life." It could be via weeknight meals, from "Making Messes Monday" (personalized place mats is one idea) to "Friday Fete," complete with homemade confetti. Family takes center stage before remaining chapters focus on friendship, sports, and seasons. In every category, each celebration features at least three dishes and one DIY project. For recipes, expect comfort foods without high gastronomic touches, ranging from overnight oats and loaded veggie nachos to spaghetti and more. Chocolate mousse with cookie crumble topping, anyone? Provenzano's truly outstanding contributions are the tips found in both individual instructions and the book's mini-sections: pointers for grazing boards, book club topics, how to create memories. The ultimate book for happy crafting and eating together.

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      • Publisher's Weekly

        May 2, 2022
        Lifestyle television personality Provenzano, of the Hallmark Channel’s Home & Family, offers readers ways to “get the party started” in this entertaining collection of recipes and DIY projects. The “dedicated do-it-yourselfer” organizes her chapters around occasions that “are perfect for a touch of jollification”—from celebrating weeknight meals to hosting “books-optional” book clubs with friends. A game-plan for “Taco Tuesdays” recommends three different ways to create pom-pom napkin rings, alongside a recipe for slow-cooker chicken tacos, while a section on self-care instructs readers on how to make their own aloe and rosewater face mist. Busy parents will appreciate the abundance of fun, family-friendly ideas on offer: for picnic outings, Provenzano offers tips on creating personalized tables with breakfast-in-bed trays and nontoxic acrylic paint, as well as fruit and brownie kebabs that the kids can assemble at home. No recipe or craft goes without a dose of helpful advice (to create clay wine glass tags, Provenzano suggests using cornstarch for dusting to prevent sticking), and Provenzano’s delightful anecdotes about her own family (“Grandpa Provenzano would always have a red-and-white checked tablecloth on his table when we would have pasta”) add a sweet personal touch. Those looking for a reason to celebrate life’s little moments will find no shortage of inspiration. Agent: Eryn Kalavsky, Salky Literary.

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