Barefoot Contessa at Home: Everyday Recipes You'll Make Over and Over Again - Hardcover

Ina Garten

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593068408 ISBN 13: 9780593068403

Publisher: Bantam, 2011

Synopsis

In Barefoot Contessa at Home, Ina shares the recipes she loves, and her secrets to making guests feel welcome and comfortable. Here she offers the recipes she makes over and over again because they're easy, they work, and they're universally loved. *For a leisurely Sunday breakfast, she has Easy Cheese Danishes or Breakfast Fruit Crunch to serve with the perfect Spicy Bloody Mary. *For lunch, she has classics with a twist, such as Tomato, Mozarella and Pesto Panini and Old-Fashioned Potato salad, which are simply delicious. *Then there are Ina's homey dinners - from her own version of loin of pork stuffed with sauteed fennel to the exotic flavours of Eli's Asian Salmon. *And there are outrageously luscious sweets like Peach and Blueberry Crumble and Pumpkin Mousse Parfait. Ina also lets readers in on her time-tested strategies for cooking and entertaining - from what she considers when she's designing a kitchen, to menu-planning basics. In this beautifully illustrated book, Ina Garten proves beyond a shadow of doubt that there truly is no place like home.

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About the Author

Ina Garten is the author of seven bestselling cookbooks, star of the Barefoot Contessa TV show on the Good Food Channel. She writes a monthly column for House Beautiful and lives in East Hampton, USA.

From Publishers Weekly

Garten's fifth cookbook (after Barefoot in Paris) follows her surefire formula: uncomplicated but elegant recipes for the home cook whose priority is spending time with friends and family, not in the kitchen. From breakfast to dessert, the Food Network star organizes this volume by meal, with an easy-to-navigate recipe list at the top of each section. Many entries provide a creative alternative to the basics: the Summer Borscht—which calls for fresh beets, cucumber and chicken stock—will make a cool, flavorful substitute for the predictable bowl of gazpacho, and the mayonnaise-based Jon Snow's Fish Salad—freshly roasted white fish filets (e.g., halibut) distinguished by the addition of diced fennel—will supersede tuna salad. But some of Garten's "feel-good" foods barely warrant inclusion—her recipe for Sunday Morning Oatmeal barely elevates the instructions on the Quaker canister. If not always inventive, these recipes (e.g., Cornish Hens with Cornbread Stuffing) should be reliable for seasoned but time-pressed or ambitious but inexperienced cooks. Striking a warm, personal tone, Garten also includes advice on designing a kitchen, making a grocery list, planning a menu and where to shop and dine in the Hamptons. (Nov.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0593068408
• ISBN 13: 9780593068403
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256