Want to add some spice to the same old holiday dinner? Let FINE LIVING TV NETWORK's Ultimate Holiday Menu Guide inspire you to add new dishes to your family's table this year.

Tune in from 3 to 8 pm on Saturday, December 23, 2006, as well-known chefs share their recipes for delicious meals and wine experts provide the perfect pairings.

3 pm EST / 12 pm PST
Holidays With Friends
Andrea Immer Robinson gathers her friends from both coasts to celebrate the holidays in wine country. Together they deck the halls, prepare great food, share wine pairing tips, and fill the house with music and laughter. With a spectacular wine bar for the adults and cookies for the kids to decorate, join FINE LIVING TV NETWORK for Holidays with Friends and indulge in the delicious flavors of the season.

4 pm EST / 1 pm PST
A NapaStyle Holiday
Host and renowned chef Michael Chiarello transforms an ordinary holiday meal into an extraordinary feast. Instead of roasting the turkey, ever thought of smoking it on the barbecue? And if turkey's not your thing, a precooked ham might make a wonderful alternative. Michael dishes up some sides to accompany the feast: mushroom ragout and cornbread stuffing with fruit and polenta bread. If you're looking to spice up the holidays, FINE LIVING TV NETWORK's A NapaStyle Holiday special has the recipe for the happiest of holiday meals!

Sweet Potato Bisque, featured in the Dec. 19 issue

5 pm EST / 2 pm PST
Pairings With Andrea: Christmas
Andrea spices things up for the holiday season with a delicious dinner and great wines to match. First, she's cooking up a savory Turkey-Sausage Bread, then a creamy Sweet Potato Bisque. Finally, Andrea prepares a recipe that's perfect to share with Santa, Soft Whole Wheat Ginger Spice Cookies, and pairs all the spicy flavors with a delicious Gewurztraminer and Grenache.

5:30 pm EST / 2:30 pm PST
Simplify Your Life: Dual Holiday Decor, New Traditions
You can balance two sets of traditions within one household: let the experts simplify this all-too-common holiday headache. First, strike a balance between Christmas and Hanukkah icons, then decorate with lights outside and tropical greenery inside...but without the traditional Christmas look. And what's for dinner in this two-holiday household? Enter food expert Cat Cora and her recipes for Pomegranate Glazed Goose with Wild Rice and Chestnut Stuffing and Sweet Potato and Scallion Latkes.

6 pm EST / 3 pm PST
Follow That Food: Follow That Holiday
It's the Holiday Season and host Gordon Elliott is off to travel the globe to try and catch them all! It's Feliz Navidad in Spain, a snowy Christmas in Aspen, an Italian festival in Chicago, a Dicken's Christmas in London and a Hanukkah celebration in New York City.

6:30 pm EST / 3:30 pm PST
NapaStyle: Heritage Show
Every family has something that they pass down from generation to generation, but how do we create that tradition--and why is it so special? Host Michael Chiarello discusses his own culinary heritage by providing a family recipe for menisha, then fellow Italian Leonora Particelli offers her take on an old favorite: gnocchi della nonna.

7 pm EST / 4 pm PST
An Aspen Christmas
Be a culinary celebrity in your own kitchen this holiday season and still spend time with your family. Along with Gordon Elliott and FINE LIVING TV NETWORK's own master sommelier Andrea Immer Robinson, four well-known chefs--Todd Slossberg, Kerry Simon, Dean Fearing, and Brook Vosika--share their secrets to sensational supping. They also reveal and relive their Christmas meals and fondest holiday memories on An Aspen Christmas.

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