Delia's Happy Christmas Hardcover – International Edition, September 6, 2010

Delia Smith is one of the best kept secrets in England! She writes really reliable recipes and her books are serious work horses. They taste fantastic and are always very special and just the right side of elegant. "Happy Christmas" is no exception. It is a combination of her 1990 Christmas book and a colletion of over 120 new recipes. The end result is a book that is vital during the Christmas season.Alongside delicious and inspired recipes, the book also has wonderful organizational elements. There is a section on making a schedule, menu planning, freeze ahead tips, internet sources for hard to find items, essential shopping lists, and also sections on last minute Christmas and plans for New Year. This book covers any and all eventualities of Christmas eating, gift giving, and entertaining.Favorite recipes include: Cranberry Queen of Puddings, Panetonne Bread and Butter Pudding with Marsala, Spiced Pickled Pears, Pear and Cranberry Chutney, Cranberry Cooler, Hot Spiced Cider with Buttered Apples, Parma Ham Pecorino and Rosemary Crisps, Pistachio Sables, Gruyere and Parmesean Allumettes, Suasage Rolls, Scallops in the Shell, Roasted Guinea Fowl with Calvados Creama and Apples, Beef Braised in Guinness and Port with Pickled Walnuts, Roast Duck with Cherry Sauce, Roast Ham with Cumberland Sauce, Slow Briased Pork with Bacon Apples and Cider, Roast Rib of Beef with a Confit of Whole Garlic and Shallots, Luxury Seafood Pie with Parmesean Crust, Roasted Red Peppers Stuffed with Fennel, Tomato Tart with Swiss Cheese and Rosemary, Cheese and Parsnip Roulade with Sage and Onion Stuffing, Oricchiette with Walnut Sauce, Parsnips with Parmesean, Sauteed Caramelised Fennel, Mini Baked Potatoes with Cold Chive Hollandaise, Spiced Cranberry and Orange Brulee, Champagne Jellies with Frosted Grapes, Chocolate and Sour Cherry Crumble, Frozen Chocolate and Vanilla Creme Brulees, and Stem Ginger Ice Cream.Since this book is only published in the UK, you will have to work with the metric system, but she includes conversion charts in the book that make it very easy to do. I highly reccomend this (as well as any Delia Smith title.) If you buy this in combination with Nigella Lawson's Christmas book (also highly reccomended) you will never need to worry about Christmas cooking again! The Brits seem to know what they are doing!

Loved the condition and price of this like new book. Thank you for speedy delivery!

I bought this to get the famous Christmas cake recipe… I’m there are 3! I think I have figured out which it is… I’ll let you know! Stunning pictures and nice lay-out.

This was a great compendium for the holidays. I have watched her YouTube videos, and the book was equally thorough and pleasing. The photographs are beautiful. Her work is elegant and through in presentation and instruction.

I love Delia's cook books, simple directions and tasty recipes. I made Fillet of Beef in pastry with wild mushrooms & red wine for Christmas and it was delicious.Some may find vegetables or other items called by a different name as this is an English book, just look on line or ask in the stores for alternative names.

Simple, easy to follow recipes. Good shopping and planning guide up front.Only negative was that the first 20 pages were folded in and bound in at the spine so I had to cut the pages to be able to view these. Pity!

Bought the original 20 years ago and have used it every year since. Particularly like the chapter 'Last 36 hours'. Recipes are delicious and have become firm family favorites. Even if you never make anything from the book, it is a wonderful read and the photos are great. I would highly recommend it.

My favorite Christmas book of all times

After years of thumbing through my tattered print-offs of her recipes, I decided to treat myself to the book. It was such a treat to settle in to it before Christmas and choose which recipes to try this Christmas. An experience that started with the leisurely read and is still going on as we enjoy the last slices of Christmas cake. I like recipes that are simple, and use ingredients that are easy to source - the recipes I made deliver on both counts.

big and bright book. covers only recipes. can be used as coffee table book as well

Fantastic book, wonderful recipes accompanied by stunning pics to delight the tastebuds and want to cook your heart out

Adoro Delia smith e tutti i suoi libri splendidamente illustrati e di facile comprensione , questo dedicato al Natale non può mancare . Consegna puntuale e materiale perfetto

Delia Smith CBE is an English cook, known for her thorough teaching of basic cookery skills in a no-nonsense style. She is deservedly the UK's best-selling cookery author, with more than 21 million books sold to date, and with this updated Christmas book you can see why. Although that said, I have several of her books and they are all excellent. Today there are many people presenting cooking programmes on TV and writing cookery books, in addition, we even have several TV cooking channels and numerous recipe/food web sites, Delia's being one of them. But for me as a home cook you just can’t beat Delia's books because her recipes always work, and I'm speaking from over 35 years experience of making her dishes. Admittedly some of them can be time consuming, but they are always worth the time and extra effort.This Christmas book doesn’t disappoint, and it has brought us right up to date from the original book first published in 1990. There are so many excellent recipes and entertaining ideas with lots of hints and preparation tips, which will be particularly handy for the new generation that Delia refers to, who haven’t cooked Christmas dinner before. I have previously bought Delia’s complete cookery book for several younger members of the family and they all love it and have found it invaluable. And even though they have other cookery books, it's a book they always return to time and time again. And I know I'll be doing the same with this Christmas book.If like me, you like to shop online there are lots of great sites listed for your Christmas essentials. There are 100 new Christmas recipes added to this book and I think they are totally characteristic of Delia’s excellent style. Plenty of things have changed in the two decades since the first book was published and the new recipes reflect that. There's also a lot more party food, and more choices of main courses and the now essential vegetarian dishes. There's even some great suggestions on what to do with left overs.This is a glossy book with high production values but unfortunately there isn't a picture of every dish, but I’m nitpicking here. This new book is great, really inspiring, and makes me feel totally secure and equipped to cope with any type of Christmas catering. I would have no hesitation in recommending this or any other Delia Smith book, because in general terms they really are all you need and are often the best place to start.