Everyday Celebrations From Scratch

by Maria Provenzano

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!

• ISBN10: 0785245782
• ISBN13: 9780785245780
• Publish Date: 28 June 2022
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Harper Celebrate
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 368
• Language: English

Reviews

[annieb123]

Originally posted on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

Everyday Celebrations From Scratch is a DIY guide with cooking and crafts written and curated by Maria Provenzano. Released 28th June 2022 by Harper Collins on their Harper Horizon imprint, it's 368 pages and is available in hardcover and ebook formats.

The book is written around the idea that celebrations don't have to only occur on big occasions. It's enough to celebrate the everyday things as well. To that end, the chapters' recipes and crafts are grouped thematically: weeknight meals, family, friendship, sports, and seasonal celebrations with entries for each season.

Recipes are appealing and the book is styled to within an inch of its life. In fact, it reminds me more than a little bit of the Martha Stewart style/aesthetic with a bit more American Italian casual and a little less New England WASP. Recipes are written with an introduction, ingredients in a bullet list in a sidebar, and followed by step-by-step instructions. Measurements are provided with imperial (American) units only. There is no nutritional information included. Most of the ingredients for food and crafts will be relatively easy to source at any moderately large grocery store or big box crafts supplier.

The production values are top notch, but fair warning: the book seems to be a photo album of a hyper-imagined "instagram perfect" family (as I look around at my messy kitchen countertops and wash my 3rd load of laundry for the day). They're almost all blonde, beautiful, thin, with straight teeth and full heads of beautifully styled hair (even the older generation). There are abundant photos of the author's beautiful family, but not so many of the food or crafts.

The crafts are mostly kid-friendly, and I never really thought I would review a book which intentionally included pasta picture art, but here we are.

Three and a half stars. A careful read-through showed no glaring errors in the recipes or crafts tutorials.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.