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The Gathering of Friends Cookbooks-Because Love Tastes So Good!

Doesn’t food just say, “I love you” in so many ways? Christmas is right around the corner and the entertaining is on the list. Whether your entertaining a crowd or just putting a celebration together for your family, The Gathering of Friends Cookbooks is the perfect answer to it all:

I was invited to a cooking event with Michelle Huxtable at my family’s favorite place, Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, Utah. I love the cooking events but this one captured my heart.

Michelle Huxtable is the author of the cookbook series,  “The Gathering of Friends” Cookbooks.  Michelle Huxtable speaks my launguage food. She understands that it means more than just something on a plate. It’s how she shows her love and let me tell you, her love is delicious!

Michelle Huxtable Prepares Fried Tomatoes

Michelle Huxtable Prepares Fried Tomatoes

Michelle Huxtable slices the Tomatoes

Michelle Huxtable slices the Tomatoes

Creamy Tomato Soup

Tomato Soup Supreme

This creamy tomato soup recipe was so easy and had so much flavor that I stopped on the way home from the event to buy the ingredients. It’s what we had for dinner. My family absolutely LOVES this meal.

Next up was an incredible Oriental Chicken Salad. It had so many textures and tastes that it was sinfully tasty.

Michelle Huxtable mixes the oriental chicken salad

Michelle Huxtable mixes the oriental chicken salad

Best Oriental Chicken Salad I've ever tasted

Best Oriental Chicken Salad I’ve ever tasted

Michelle Huxtable shares her passion for cooking in the Gathering of Friends cookbooks

Michelle Huxtable shares her passion for cooking in the Gathering of Friends cookbooks

Michelle's daughter, Abby Jane, puts the finishing touches on homemade macaroons!

Michelle’s daughter, Abby Jane, puts the finishing touches on homemade macaroons!

Remember those fried tomatoes? They went on bread for a taste of heaven!

Remember those fried tomatoes? They went on bread for a taste of heaven!

Fried tomatoes on toasted bread

Fried tomatoes on toasted bread

Some kind of wonderful cookie

Some kind of wonderful cookie

close up of that wonderful cookie

close up of that wonderful cookie

Caramel Popcorn with flavor as big as the bowl

Caramel Popcorn with flavor as big as the bowl!

Almond cake with the texture of a brownie

Almond Cake with the texture of a brownie

The Gathering of Friends

The Gathering of Friends

Julee with Michelle Huxtable

Julee with Michelle Huxtable

Michelle Huxtable may be bringing back the beauty of food. With each recipe containing seldom more than six ingredients (and they’re everyday ingredients, not some hunt-it-down ingredient. It’s amazing food, simple recipes and a beautiful result.

My traditional cookbook complaint, “needs more photos”, won’t be heard in this review. EVERY recipe is featured with a color photo. In fact, her new cookbook, the fourth in the Gathering of Friends series, has at least ten pictures in the awesome gardens of Thanksgiving Point and they’re featured with items from the Emporium (drool!)

All of the Gathering of Friends cookbooks can be ordered through The Gathering of Friends website. Utah residents, head down to Thanksgiving Point and pick one up now.  It is the PERFECT last-minute gift idea.

Look at the possibilities:

The Gathering of Friends Volume 4

The Gathering of Friends Volume 4

Above is the book. It’s beautiful just to look at.

Michelle Huxtable and daughter, Abby Jane, transformed it into this amazing gift:

The Gathering of Friends makes the perfect holiday gift

The Gathering of Friends makes the perfect holiday gift

*I attended The Gathering of Friends Cooking Event thanks to Michelle Huxtable and Thanksgiving Point. The opinions, where expressed, are my own and were in no way influenced by the sponsor. Others experiences may vary.
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