Barefoot Contessa How Easy is That? by Ina Garten is a wonderful cookbook filled with easy to make recipes that bring comfort and warmth to any kitchen.
The Recipes
The recipes are well written, and are accompanied by beautiful color photos. Ina Garten shares 62 valuable tips throughout the cookbook that will save time and make cooking and baking easier. Plan on having plenty of timers, lots of measures, cooking scales, pastry bags, parchment paper for baking pans and flat platters for serving.
There are six chapters of delicious recipes starting with cocktails, starters, lunch, dinner, vegetables, and ending with desserts.
Watermelon Mojitos is one of many cocktail recipes such as Roasted Figs & Proscuitto, Roasted Eggplant Caponata, Smoked Salmon Deviled Eggs, and Pink Grapefruit Margarita.
For starters, choose recipes for Onion & Fennel Soup Gratin, Celery & Parmesan Salad, Rich Celery Root Purée or Mussels & Basil Bread Crumbs.
What's for lunch? Roasted Vegetable Frittata, Baked Fontina, Ultimate Grilled Cheese, French String Beach Salad are some of the choices in Lunch chapter.
Set the table for dinner and serve one of many dinner recipes such as Lemon Chicken Breasts, Grilled Steak & Arugula, Roasted Salmon with Green Herbs, Weeknight Bolognese or Easy or Parmesan Risotto.
For dinner or lunch, serve vegetables such as Scalloped Tomatoes,Roasted Butternut Squash, Tuscan White Beans or Warm French lentils.
Dessert - the grand finale! There is a choice of Easy Cranberry & Apple Cake, Chocolate Pudding Cream Tart, Italian Plum Tart, Red Velvet Cupcakes, Fleur de Sel Caramels, and many more sweet, delicious, and decadent recipes.
Recipes Tested:
Rich Celery Root Purée
Celery root is not appear to be appetizing, but combined with chicken stock and heavy cream, it produces a creamy and intense flavor. Sprinkle with black pepper and serve hot.
Lemon Chicken Breasts
This savory recipe is quickly assembled and tastes ever so good! The chicken breasts are baked with a combination of olive oil, wine, lemons and oregano which fill the kitchen with a wonderful aroma. This oven- to-table dish is definitely worthy of serving to guests.
Easy Cranberry & Apple Cake
This cake is not only easy to make but tastes so good! The combination of orange juice and zest blends well with the cranberry and apple mixture. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream
The Cookbook for Home Cooks
Barefoot Contessa How Easy is That? is a cookbook that will be browsed through for its wonderful photographs and ear-marked (using post-its or bookmarks) for its delicious recipes. It is a cookbook that belongs in the kitchen.
Please visit the Barefoot Contessa website to view delicious recipes from this book.
Watch Ina Garten cook Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics) on the Food Network channel.
Barefoot Contessa How Easy is That? by Ina Garten Copyright © 2010 by Ina Garten. Photographs Copyright © 2010 by Quentin Bacon. Excerpted by permission of Clarkson Potter, a division of Random House of Canada Limited. All rights reserved.
Barefoot Contessa How Easy is That?
Author: Ina Garten
Publisher: Random House of Canada
ISBN: 978-0-307-23876-4
Hardcover, 256 pages
U.S. $35.00/$40.00 CAN
