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 Barefoot Contessa Family Style: Easy Ideas and Recipes That Make Everyone Feel Like Family :: 060961066X
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Ina Garten, who shared her gift for casual entertaining in the bestselling Barefoot Contessa Cookbook and Barefoot Contessa Parties!, is back with her most enticing recipes yet—a collection of her favorite dishes for everyday cooking. In Barefoot Contessa Family Style, Ina explains that sharing our lives and tables with those we love is too essential to be saved just for special occasions—and it’s easy to do if you know how to cook irresistible meals with a minimum of fuss.
For Ina, the best way to make guests feel at home is to serve them food that’s as unpretentious as it is delicious. So in her new book, she’s collected the recipes that please her friends and family most—dishes like East Hampton Clam Chowder, Parmesan Roasted Asparagus, and Linguine with Shrimp Scampi. It’s the kind of fresh, accessible food that’s meant to be passed around the table in big bowls or platters and enjoyed with warm conversation and laughter.
In Ina’s hands tried-and-true dishes are even more delicious than you remember them: Her arugula salad is bright with the flavors of lemon and Parmesan, the Oven-Fried Chicken is crispy without excess fat, and her Deep-Dish Apple Pie has the perfect balance of fruit and spice. Barefoot Contessa Family Style also includes enticing recipes that are memorable and distinctive, like Lobster Cobb Salad, Tequila Lime Chicken, and Saffron Risotto with Butternut Squash.
With vivid photographs of Ina cooking and serving food in her beautiful Hamptons home, as well as menu suggestions, practical wisdom on what to do when disaster strikes in the kitchen, and tips on creating an inviting ambience with music, Barefoot Contessa Family Style is the must-have guide to the joy of everyday entertaining.Editorial Descriptions are usually submitted by the manufacturers, publishers and authors. Contact us if you are one of them, and wish to change the above description. |
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Author: Guest
Although there are many good recipes in this book and a few useful tips, I would recommend borrowing it from the library or buying it only if it's 1/2 price or less. It's more of a coffeetable picture book with a few recipes than the practical everyday cookbook that its author claims it is. For $35 you get only 88 recipes, and more than a dozen of them are so basic than even a novice cook doesn't need a recipe. I mean, come on, do you really need 2 pages to tell you how to boil squash and put butter and brown sugar on it, or a 2-page spread telling you that you can make herbal iced tea by putting herb tea bags in water? After making a couple recipes from the book, we quickly learned not to put in the huge quantities of salt that she recommends. With some recipes, such as the lasagna, even leaving the salt out doesn't help because the recipe calls for very salty cheeses and sausage. This is definitely not a book for the health-conscious! The excessive quantities of fat and salt in some of these recipes could be reduced without sacrificing flavor. There are some good desserts, but watch out for the sauces--some of them are nauseatingly sweet. The sauce for the lemon sponge cake tastes like melted lollipops--yuk!
Other than the desserts, we found that many of the recipes were no better than what you can get from any good basic cookbook (Joy of Cooking, Julia Child, Better Homes & Gardens, etc.) (the pasta sauces, in fact, really weren't any better than a medium-quality jarred sauce), so there wasn't enough new information to make it worth buying. If you're an experienced cook, you don't need to waste the money on this book because you can make most of the items without a recipe or by using whatever standard book you have handy. If you're a novice cook, you'd be better off getting a good basic overall cookbook that provides much more information and dozens more recipes for the same price.
I bought this book because it was a book group selection, and fortunately got it at a big discount. If I'd paid full price, I would have felt ripped off. There definitely isn't $35 worth of information here!
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Author: Guest
We were very impressed with the layout of the recipes of this book. These recipes were very easy to understand and always turned out. I purchased one for myself and one for my friend.
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Author: Guest
I have been in love with cooking for the past 10 years, and I do not have trouble following cookbook recipes, but this one wasn't as fool-proof as it appears.
To clarify things, her main dishes turn out good, but the desserts aren't perfected. I make my own bread and make my own butter when fancy strikes, yet the tiramisu I made using her recipe exact, was the worst cake ever. The Key Lime frozen pie I made was also terrible! Too Limey and plainly unsavory.
I don't think I have ever baked anything that didn't turn out unsatisfactionary until this book!
I like her show and recipes for shrimp scampi, side dishes, drinks, chicken dishes and salads but I will not be using her dessert recipes, I know better than that by now.
Too bad, it would have been a great book, but the dissert thing make me scare of using it at all.
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Author: Guest
This publication includes some of the best Barefoot recipes. Lots of wonderful images(but not TOO many)that are very colorful and well presented. I am very pleased with this purchase.
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Author: Guest
Great recipes and advice on every page...I especially appreciated the "10 items you need in your kitchen". She also offers brand names to use when she feels it will make a difference in the outcome of the recipe.
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