Christmas Gifts-in-a-Jar Cookbook

by Karen Jean Matsko Hood

Overview

Delicious Gifts-in-a-Jar recipes are versatile, nutritious, and always add a special flair to many dishes, whether used in cakes, pies and breads, in preserves, as a salad ingredient, in wines or brandies, or any number of other imaginative ways. In Christmas Gifts-in-a-Jar Cookbook, author Karen Jean Matsko Hood presents her collection of more than 250 exciting Gifts-in-a-Jar recipes that will be sure to please everyone! Inside, you will also find some fascinating reading regarding this beloved berry’s history, folklore, cultivation, and much more. With recipes using readily available ingredients, Christmas Gifts-in-a-Jar Cookbook will be a valued addition to any chef’s bookshelf.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151484381
Publisher:	Whispering Pine Press International, Inc.
Publication date:	02/23/2015
Series:	Gifts-in-a-Jar , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	324
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Karen Jean Matsko Hood has always enjoyed cooking, baking, and experimenting with recipes. At this time Hood is working to complete a series of cookbooks that blends her skills and experience in cooking and entertaining. Hood entertains large groups of people and especially enjoys designing creative menus with holiday, international, ethnic, and regional themes.
Hood is publishing a cookbook series entitled the Cookbook Delights Series, in which each cookbook emphasizes a different food ingredient or theme. The first cookbook in the series is Apple Delights Cookbook. She has been invited to speak on talk radio shows on various topics, and favorite recipes from her cookbooks have been prepared on local television programs.
Karen was born and raised in Great Falls, Montana. In May 2001, she completed her Master’s Degree in Pastoral Ministry at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Hood is working on research projects to complete her Ph.D. in Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.
She resides in Spokane, Washington, along with her husband, many of her sixteen children, and foster children. Her hobbies include cooking, baking, collecting, photography, indoor and outdoor gardening, farming, and the cultivation of unusual flowering plants and orchids.
Hood demonstrates a passionate appreciation of the environment and a respect for all life.