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 Everyday Italian: 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes :: 1400052580
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In her hit Food Network show Everyday Italian, Giada De Laurentiis shows you how to cook delicious, beautiful food in a flash. And here, in her long-awaited first book, she does the same—helps you put a fabulous dinner on the table tonight, for friends or just for the kids, with a minimum of fuss and a maximum of flavor. She makes it all look easy, because it is.
Everyday Italian is true to its title: the fresh, simple recipes are incredibly quick and accessible, and also utterly mouth-watering—perfect for everyday cooking. And the book is focused on the real-life considerations of what you actually have in your refrigerator and pantry (no mail-order ingredients here) and what you’re in the mood for—whether a simply sauced pasta or a hearty family-friendly roast, these great recipes cover every contingency. So, for example, you’ll find dishes that you can make solely from pantry ingredients, or those that transform lowly leftovers into exquisite entrées (including brilliant ideas for leftover pasta), and those that satisfy your yearning to have something sweet baking in the oven. There are 7 ways to make red sauce more interesting, 6 different preparations of the classic cutlet, 5 perfect pestos, 4 creative uses for prosciutto, 3 variations on basic polenta, 2 great steaks, and 1 sublime chocolate tiramisù—plus 100 other recipes that turn everyday ingredients into speedy but special dinners.
What’s more, Everyday Italian is organized according to what type of food you want tonight—whether a soul-warming stew for Sunday supper, a quick sauté for a weeknight, or a baked pasta for potluck. These categories will help you figure out what to cook in an instant, with such choices as fresh-from-the-pantry appetizers, sauceless pastas, everyday roasts, and stuffed vegetables—whatever you’re in the mood for, you’ll be able to find a simple, delicious recipe for it here. That’s the beauty of Italian home cooking, and that’s what Giada De Laurentiis offers here—the essential recipes to make a great Italian dinner. Tonight.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
What more can you ask for? Good recipes that are easy to prepare from an Italian-American who knows good food and the American desire for quick and easy. Everything I've tried was restaurant quality. I will buy her next cookbook without hesitation.
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Author: Guest
How wonderful - I got given this before I knew that it was a TV show - so without knowing anything of the personality I tried out the book.
What did I love - the food really did seem easy and accessible and the results amazing. I loved the way there were so many things which were easy to get - not having to scour specialist shops for essentially pantry and leftover cooking. I also liked the variant ideas on recipes. I found that more than just another recipe to add to the list - It was inspiring to understand the blending of tastes and using variations helps to expand your love of cooking - because after all cooking is about taste isn't it?
De Laurentiis is a strong presence in this - she reminds me a bit of the British food-writer Nigella Lawson who also is quite a lush and almost erotic presence with her cooking. I felt this more more food-erotic (ferotic) than sexual though and I liked that. Again, it is the taste thing - food is simply the best experience and I felt De Laurentiis was determined to do two things - that is introduce people to joy of cooking and secondly to reintroduce them to the joy of taste. two inextricably linked things - yet so often people feel they have to go to a restaurant to enjoy really good food and so they miss out on the sheer joy of putting it all together. I think this is a book to give you confidence
A few simple recipes, some great tastes and presented beautifully.
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Author: Guest
Giada brings a sexual flair to Italian cooking for sure. Just watch the show and see how she cuts veggies, washes her hands, and samples the food.
Recipes won't make you a Michelan rated restaurant chef, but hey ladies, if you want your husbands to cook while you relax...buy this book.
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Author: Guest
This cookbook has great italian recipes -- the polenta and sauce recipes are great and easy to prepare. I have never really enjoyed polenta until I made the recipe in this book. With a little added creativity with seasonings you can take the basic recipe just about any place you want to go.
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Author: Guest
I'm always in search of nice and simple recipes book. This one is a must have ! The recipes are absolutly delicious and yet very simple I love it .
I also bought Simple and Simply Delicious by Sylvie Rocher .
With those 2 books I should have enought recipes for few months :)
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