Barefoot Contessa How Easy Is That?: Fabulous Recipes & Easy Tips Author: Ina Garten | Language: English | ISBN:
B004GB0NXS | Format: EPUB
Barefoot Contessa How Easy Is That?: Fabulous Recipes & Easy Tips Description
Ina Garten, bestselling cookbook author and beloved star of Barefoot Contessa on Food Network, is back with her easiest recipes ever.
In Barefoot Contessa How Easy Is That? Ina proves once again that it doesn’t take complicated techniques, special equipment, or stops at more than one grocery store to make wonderful dishes for your family and friends. Her newest must-have cookbook is all about saving time and avoiding stress while having fun in the kitchen.
These are not recipes with three ingredients thrown together in five minutes; instead home cooks will find fantastic Barefoot Contessa recipes that are easy to make but still have all that deep, delicious flavor Ina is known for—and that makes a meal so satisfying. Think Pink Grapefruit Margaritas served with Smoked Salmon Deviled Eggs—two classics with a twist. For lunch, Ina makes everyone’s favorite Ultimate Grilled Cheese sandwich and Snap Peas with Pancetta. For dinner, try Jeffrey’s Roast Chicken (tried and true!); Steakhouse Steaks, which come out perfectly every time and—with Ina’s easy tip—couldn’t be simpler; or an Easy Parmesan “Risotto” that you throw in the oven instead of stirring endlessly on the stovetop. Finally, Ina’s desserts never disappoint—from Red Velvet Cupcakes to Chocolate Pudding Cream Tart.
To top it all off, Ina also shares her best tips for making cooking really easy. She leaves bowls of lemons and limes on the counter not only because they look great but because they also remind her that a squeeze of lemon in a dish brightens the flavors. She shows us the equipment that makes a difference to her—like sharp knives, the right zester, an extra bowl for her electric mixer—and that can help you in your kitchen, too.
This eBook edition of Barefoot Contessa How Easy Is That? takes easy to a whole new level. Here is Ina’s cookbook on your handheld device—plus hundreds of brand-new tips for shopping. At your office and thinking about dinner? The recipes are with you so you can make a shopping list. At a your mother-in-law’s and want to make the Mocha Chocolate Ice Box Cake? You’ll have the recipe at your fingertips! Your husband’s shopping and wants to know how to choose a ripe pear? Click on the ingredient and there are instructions. Not sure what tarragon looks like? Click on the ingredient and there’s a picture! So many olive oils to choose from? Click on the ingredient and you’ll see Ina’s two favorites. With your handheld device nearby, you’ll have everything you need to shop for and cook your favorite Easy Barefoot Contessa recipes.
Filled with gorgeous full-color photographs, Barefoot Contessa How Easy is That? is the perfect kitchen companion for busy home cooks who still want fabulous flavor.
Note: This eBook edition of Barefoot Contessa How Easy Is That? includes photographs that will appear on black-and-white devices but are optimized for devices that support full-color images.
- File Size: 17642 KB
- Print Length: 256 pages
- Publisher: Clarkson Potter (December 17, 2010)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004GB0NXS
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #141,736 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
I will confess that I find Ina Garten's FoodNetwork show to be a guilty pleasure. Her television personality comes off as cheerful and warm. Her home is beautiful in that Hamptons-Pottery Barn style. The shows, however, have become rather tiresome with her relentless plugging of friends (foodies, Hampton food stores, movie and theater folk, carpenters, architects, florists, landscape and lighting designers, etc.) Her recipes are very derivative and nowhere does that become more glaring than in her latest book "How Easy is That?" This is a padded mess of a book. The format is familar: beautiful photographs of highly stylized food, recipes are generally easy and high in butter, cream, and salt, and there are few recipes for the money. Her show and books are actually a peek at a Hamptons lifestyle: beautiful well appointed house and setting, TWO nearly identical kitchens to die for, and glamorous friends seemingly always willing to help her act out this fantasy life for the camera.
This book reads more as a first draft of an idea--that idea being EASY. It is no more easy than the recipes in her other cookbooks, except for a few that seem to be a tip of the hat to Sandra Lee. As for recipes that I actually wanted to prepare, there are very, very few. Truffled popcorn?...give me a break.
As a way to pad the book they came up with the lame idea to have "tips" for making things easy. I call them lame because they are nothing special that would warrant to be considered a "tip." Endorsement is more like it, as they tend to push products (Williams Sonoma olive oil, AllClad and Le Creuset pans, her Barefoot Contessa baking mixes, PepperMate peppermill, Gel Mats, etc.) and are often insulting given that most people are financially strapped in these times.
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