Garrett Haptonstall

F.E.A.R. - Festive Eats and Recipes (FEAR, #4) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Welcome to FEAR: Festive Eats and Recipes, the holiday cookbook for people who love food but are exhausted by the relentless cheerfulness of traditional holiday guides. This isn't about perfect tablescapes or Instagram-worthy presentations-it's about surviving the holidays with dark humor, honest advice, and genuinely delicious food.

What's Inside:

This comprehensive cookbook covers all major holidays with over 100 recipes, each accompanied by brutally honest commentary that acknowledges the chaos of holiday cooking:

Halloween: Embracing the Void with Snacks From Deviled Eggs from the Depths to Cemetery Dirt Cups, discover recipes that celebrate death, sugar, and questionable food coloring decisions. Includes The Headless Horseman cocktail and Vampire's Revenge Garlic Pasta for when you need to ward off both vampires and unwanted social interactions.

Thanksgiving: Gratitude Through Gritted Teeth Master the brined turkey, perfect your mashed potatoes (with therapy butter, naturally), and learn why Green Bean Casserole from a Can is not only acceptable but preferred. Seven different pie recipes ensure you'll have dessert covered, even if dinner is a disaster.

Christmas: Commercialism Never Tasted Better Navigate the most expensive, exhausting holiday with recipes ranging from simple (Pigs in Blankets) to show-stopping (Beef Wellington). Includes six cookie recipes, each with realistic time estimates and emotional damage warnings.

New Year's Eve: False Hope in Appetizer Form Ring in the new year with champagne everything, caviar on blinis, and mini beef wellingtons. Because if you're going to make resolutions you won't keep, you might as well eat well while doing it.

Practical Appendices Include:

• How to Diplomatically Handle Dietary Restrictions: Because everyone's allergic to something now
• Wine Pairings for Maximum Tolerance: Pairing suggestions for both food and family drama
• Emergency Meal Planning: What to do when everything goes catastrophically wrong
• Leftover Alchemy: Transform holiday leftovers into actual meals you'll want to eat
• Recipe Index by Difficulty and Emotional Damage: Know what you're getting into before you start

Why This Cookbook Is Different:

Unlike traditional holiday cookbooks that promise perfection and joy, FEAR acknowledges the reality: holidays are hard. But good food, dark humor, and realistic expectations can make them manageable-even enjoyable. Each recipe includes actual cooking instructions (these recipes work), but also provides the emotional support and honest commentary that other cookbooks skip.

Perfect for:

• Home cooks tired of toxic positivity in food writing
• Anyone hosting holidays out of obligation rather than enthusiasm
• People who love their families but need humor to cope
• Cooks who want real recipes with realistic expectations
• Anyone who's ever eaten pie for breakfast on December 26th and felt no shame

FEAR: Festive Eats and Recipes won't promise that cooking will bring your family together or that the holidays will be magical. But it will give you damn good food and the dark humor needed to survive the season.

After all, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. And dry turkey. Definitely dry turkey.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Garrett Haptonstall
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798232088064
• Artikelnr.: 76072310

Autorenporträt

About the Author

For over a decade, I've been solving complex problemswhether it's architecting cloud infrastructure for major enterprises, building mobile apps used by thousands, or managing networks with hundreds of connected devices. But some of my favorite problem-solving happens in the kitchen.

The FEAR cookbook series grew from a simple realization: cooking, like coding, is about understanding systems, experimenting with variables, and creating something greater than the sum of its parts. Just as I've built scalable web applications and optimized database performance, I've learned to build flavors and optimize techniques in the kitchen.

My technical background has shaped my approach to cooking in unexpected ways. The same precision I use when configuring load balancers or debugging production systems translates beautifully to perfecting sous vide temperatures or balancing spice profiles. The systematic thinking required to migrate enterprise websites to AWS infrastructure? That's the same mindset I bring to recipe developmenttesting, iterating, and refining until everything works seamlessly.

FEAR isn't just about recipes; it's about demystifying the process. Throughout my career, I've taken complex technical concepts and made them accessiblewhether training development teams, supporting end users, or documenting systems. This series applies that same philosophy to cooking. No gatekeeping, no intimidation, just clear, practical guidance that empowers you to create incredible food.

When I'm not developing software solutions or maintaining server infrastructure from my home base in Texas, you'll find me experimenting with new techniques, testing recipe variations, and documenting what works (and what doesn't). Every recipe in the FEAR series has been built, tested, and refined with the same attention to detail I bring to production deployments.

This cookbook series represents the intersection of my two passions: systematic problem-solving and great food. Whether you're a complete beginner or an experienced home cook, I've designed these books to help you level up your skillsone recipe at a time.