Maria Provenzano gives the reader creative and fun ways to tie a menu with recipes together with complementary crafts and decorative accents. The from scratch recipes cover all of your meal options and some fun combinations for special ways to celebrate. The complementing crafts range from simple to more sophisticated as a way to enhance the meals being served.

This book has a fun mix of summer crafts and recipes to make with kids. It's a huge book and most of the recipes and crafts look easy and fun to make! There are also autumn and winter recipes at the end.
I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review

Almost everyone loves to entertain (or is obligated to), whether it’s just a family gathering, or a group of friends. It often means lots of planning, decorating, and cooking. Maria Provenzano, television personality and blogger, presents suggestions to take the stress out of entertaining with fun ideas to make your celebrations not only fun, but unique and individualized in her book, Everyday Celebrations from Scratch . This book is full of crafting ideas and mouthwatering recipes that are designed to make any day a celebration. Provenzano has included pantry and craft lists so that anyone can add a little pizzazz to their celebrations without having to do a lot of shopping. Some of her ideas are geared toward families and children; others are for adult parties complete with cocktails.

There are step-by-step instructions for the DIY crafts, and the recipes are written in the traditional form so that they are easy to follow; they are also mostly easy, so anyone can successfully make picture-perfect dishes along with fun crafts. There are dozens of beautiful photographs of the crafts and dishes (maybe a few too many of her cute children, but since she’s the author, that should her prerogative as a Mom).

The book is organized according to different celebrations complete with crafts and recipes for that particular celebration. It’s different, but it works well, and will inspire dozens of ideas. One of the best things about this book is the fact that she emphasizes over and over that it doesn’t have to be a holiday to celebrate. In fact, it’s actually more fun to celebrate when the day isn’t particularly special; it makes life fun and there is always something to look forward to.

All told, this is a very fun book; it has something for everyone and great ideas for celebrating almost everything.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

I liked how this book mixes recipes with craft ideas. Well explained, easy to follow, and entertaining.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine

Thank you Netgalley and Harper Horizon for providing me with this copy. I am grateful but my thoughts are my own.

The idea to combining mini crafts and matching recipes is unique and fresh. Celebrating daily theme as tradition is smart way to create childhood memorable moments too.
This books is well written, full with beautiful and instagramable pictures. The recipes is simple and resourceful for daily reference, but I found the crafts projects need extra spark because feel nothing new.

This was such a cute and fun cookbook. I loved the different themes for each day of the week. The recipes sounded yummy and the little crafts thrown in was fun. Different from other cookbooks I've read in the past.

A few cute recipes and matching craft ideas, could use for a dinner party or something. The crafts were all very 80’s or early 90’s.

I received this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I love the idea of finding ways to celebrate with food and look for small holidays like national waffle day or whatever to have a fun meal thst day. This was great inspiration!

This cover was eye-catching which is what caused me to download it in the first place. There were some interesting recipes in here that I’ll probably use in the future. Overall happy with this recipe book.

This is such a perfect cookbook for all cooking skill levels. I’m always scrounging for quick family dinners and this is the one! Thank you for the arc!

I found this to be a fun, creative book with lots of recipes, crafts, and decorating ideas for family fun, gatherings with family and friends, and for special holidays.

Everyday Celebrations from Scratch by Maria Provenzano is a cookbook full of recipes and craft ideas. Overall I enjoyed this cookbook, I haven’t yet tried any of the recipes, but found quite a few I would like to try. The baking is what I am looking forward to the most! The craft ideas were cute and the layout of the book was nice. The cookbook is nice, but some of the recipes seem a little unrealistic for your everyday cook who doesn’t have time to make everything, including their marshmallows from scratch. Overall I look forward to trying some of the recipes and think this was a good collection of recipes and ideas!

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for a copy of this cookbook!

Maria Provenzano shares a plethora of recipes and crafts to make every meal a special occasion.

Since I graduated from college, I have gotten rather into cooking - it's soothing, and it introduces some variety in my diet. I love trying new recipes, especially if I like them enough that I can add them to my weekly rotations. I definitely found some recipes that I liked in this book, but I doubt the entire thing would suit me.

The book is divided up into five main sections, each celebrating something different - the weeknights, family, friendship, sports, and the seasons. Each section is filled with various recipes and crafts. The recipes have a definite Italian lean, and the crafts kid-friendly.

I tried out three recipes from the book - Slow Cooker Chicken Tacos with Oven-Baked Crispy Shells, Blackberry Italian Sodas, and Caprese Pasta Salad. The recipes were easy to follow, and all the dishes turned out well, though I did freely adapt them in places to better fit my tastes. I thought there was a good variety of dishes and ingredients used - something I appreciated as I have dietary restrictions, and it's always disappointing when I happen upon a cookbook that uses primarily red meat in its recipes, for example.

I did not try any of the crafts as they did not appeal to me, though. They definitely seemed more suited for a person with young children who would like to involve them in arts & crafts, with things like dry-erase place mats, pasta art, and DIY trophies. However there were also some more aimed at grown-ups like wine tags, sugar scrubs, and homemade candles. There was an odd quality to the crafts, in that they seemed either very simple or very complicated to execute.

One thing I didn't like much were all the pictures of the author and her family that peppered the book. A few would have been fine - but there were a lot. I think they were supposed to support the author's brand, but they were rather distracting considering I really just wanted recipes, and to see what the food ought to look like. I also thought the author's stories about her childhood and the recipes were oddly bland.

In conclusion - like the recipes, but not really the crafts or the trappings.

I love cooking and crafts, so I was drawn to this book and knew I needed to read it! I'm so glad I did!! I loved the recipes and they include easy-to-follow instructions and great photos of the described dish. I had everything on hand as far as ingredients, so that was nice too! I haven't tried any of the crafts yet, but they also looked easy to do with great instructions. Looking forward to doing some of the crafts this summer.

A cute book with lots of ideas. I would say it is best for elementary aged children or adults. The recipes are simple and easy to follow and the pictures are bright. Best for those who are not experienced entertainers as it is more of an introduction to simple ideas.

This book has some great recipes to make food for the whole family from scratch. I really like the format of the book and the way the recipes are presented. The recipes seem pretty easy to make for the most part and I'm excited to try to make some of them. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

What a lovely book!

With the aim of creating memories in everyday activities, Everyday Celebrations From Scratch offers tons of ideas to making the mundane magical. I love the mix of recipes with crafts--all of which seem to be simple enough for anyone to do. This is the best part, because sometimes books of this nature can be a bit on the pretentious side and expect that all readers are Cordon Bleu trained crochet experts. I also love that many of the activities (especially the beginning Monday - Friday schedule) are kid friendly. The photography throughout is also beautiful.

Thank you to Harper Horizon for making this book available to read in exchange for a review through NetGalley. I can absolutely see myself adding this book to my collection when it releases.

Really enjoyed this book, it is celebratory and full of ideas that seem achievable. I definitely like the Taco Tuesday and some of the craft ideas are charming. Will be trying a few things in the coming weeks.

Two of my favourite things - cooking and crafts! So when I saw this book, I knew I needed to read it! Each recipe and craft has clear, concise step by step instructions with accompanying photographs to guide you through. They don’t need too many ingredients / materials - most are easily access in your own home and kitchen. There’s a wide variety of recipes, to suit all tastes, with a nod to some of the Italian classics.

Thank you to Harper Horizon and Netgalley for an eARC of this book to read and review

This book is a celebration of standard femininity, to understand it, it's all pink and frills, and so I loved it. It also celebrates a certain kind of friendship between women, the kind accompanied by a certain amount of alcohol, and it's a mix of creative crafts, not always too challenging and some recipes whose results could be more beautiful than good.

Questo libro é una celebrazione della femminilitá standard, per capirsi, é tutto rosa e fronzoli e quindi io l'ho adorato. Celebra inoltre un certo tipo di amicizia tra donne, quello accompagnato da una certe dose di alcol, ed é un mix di lavoretti creativi, non sempre troppo impegnativi ed alcune ricette i cui risultati potrebbero essere piú belli che buoni.

I received from the Publisher a complimentary digital advanced review copy of the book in exchange for a honest review.