Let Alexa be Your Holiday Helper
Use your Amazon Echo to Help with your Holiday Prep
We are midway through the Holiday Season, and getting down to the wire. Last night, we lit all eight candles on the menorah, and on Sunday Night, Santa finally comes. As with the other Holidays we've looked at, (Halloween and Thanksgiving,) your Alexa powered device can help you make your Holidays a little merrier.
Today, we're going to look at Alexa skills you can use to help you through the Holidays. Most of these skills can be enabled by saying "Alexa, enable the [name] skill.
Holiday Cooking
We've already covered the ways Alexa can help you with your Holiday Meal Prep when we talked about an Alexa-Powered Thanksgiving. Many of the same recipe and meal planning skills can help you with your Holiday meal prep. You can find out all about the Pie Guy skill, Betty Crocker, What's Cooking, Roast Calculator, and more in that article. But there are a couple of helpful holiday food skills we did not cover there: Holiday Cookies, and Santa Snacks.
Holiday Cookies, of course, gives you all sorts of ideas for Holiday Cookies. It will read you the ingredients as well as the instructions. You can pause and/or repeat any step at any time. And of course, you can do it all hands-free. To enable, ask Alexa to enable the "Holiday Cookies" skill. To use, say "Alexa, ask Holiday Cookies..." or "Alexa, open Holiday Cookies.
Santa Snacks: Santa Snacks will help you find the perfect snack for Santa! Just answer a few questions, and this skill will suggest a snack to leave for Santa Claus.
