dinner and a book

In October we shared a round up of cozy fall reads paired with cozy fall meals, and today we’re back with a holiday installment of this dinner-and-a-book series! Some days you may actually get to sit down and read a book during dinner. Other days — most days, for us! — it might look like popping in a pair of earbuds and listening to an audiobook while you cook dinner, wash dishes after dinner, or drive to pick up the ingredients for dinner. Or maybe you can read in bed after dinner! Whatever “reading” looks like for you right now — and whenever you can fit it in — the following are mood-boosting book-and-meal combos that will get you into the holiday spirit and help you stay calm amid the season’s chaos!

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Our favorite holiday books match-made with meals from What To Cook!

• The book // Christmas People by Iva-Marie Palmer. I’m about halfway through this one and it is truly all the good-bad holiday movie vibes wrapped up into a book. Just look at that perfect snow-globe cover! I’ve been listening to it all week while preparing for our first holiday season guests and it’s making me feel extremely festive.

• The meal // Creamy but cream-less tomato soup + cheddar biscuits. One of the main guys in the story is a small-town baker, so let’s make some drop biscuits as a baked-good ode