The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
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- ISBN13: 9780609602195
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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For more than twenty years, Barefoot Contessa, the acclaimed specialty food store, has been cooking and baking extraordinary dishes for enthusiastic customers in the Hamptons. For many of persons years, people have tried to get the exuberant owner, Ina Garten, to share the secrets of her store. Finally, the energy and style that make Barefoot Contessa such a special place are shown here, with dozens of recipes and more than 160 breathtaking photographs, in The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook.
Ina’s most well loved recipes use familiar ingredients, but they taste even better than you would expect. Her Pan-Fried Onion Dip is the real thing, with slowly car-amelized onions and fresh sour cream. Tomato soup is made from oven-roasted tomatoes and fresh basil to intensify the flavors. Meat loaf is as excellent as your grandmother’s, but it’s in excellent health because it’s made with ground turkey and fresh herbs. The light and flaky Maple-Oatmeal Scones are baked with rolled oats, whole wheat, and real maple syrup. Now these and additional legendary Barefoot Contessa recipes can be prepared at home.
Ina says that before she owned a specialty food store she regularly spent a week building dinner for six friends. Her experience at Barefoot Contessa has agreed her hundreds of thoughts for making wonderful parties in a few hours. And they’re all in this book. Crab Cakes with Rémoulade Sauce can be stored overnight in the refrigerator and sautéed just before the guests arrive. Cheddar Corn Broth can be made days yet to be, reheated, and served with a salad and bread for a tasty autumn lunch. The ingredients for Grilled Salmon Salad can all be prepared yet to be and tossed together before serving. The batter for the Raspberry Corn Muffins can be mixed a day before and popped into the oven just before breakfast.
Ina Garten teaches us how to entertain with style, simplicity, and a relaxed sense of fun. There are notes throughout the book for giving cocktail parties, lunches, and dinner parties where everything is done before the guests arrive. And there are simple instructions for making gorgeous party platters that don’t even require you to cook!
With Ina Garten and The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, you have the perfect recipe for hosting parties that are simple and fun for everyone–including the cook.Amazon.com Review
Lauren Bacall gets cranky when Barefoot Contessa, an East Hampton specialty food store/institution for more than 20 years, is sold out of Indonesian Ginger Chicken. She can now thank her lucky stars that exuberant owner Ina Garten has written The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook and included this recipe. Ms. Bacall is sure to be pleased to learn how simple it is to achieve such fantastic flavor. Simplicity is something of a bottom line at Barefoot Contessa. “Food is not about impressing people,” Ina Garten says. “It’s about building them feel comfortable.”
Aimed at the cook who intends to entertain, The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook draws on Garten’s experience as a caterer, as well as her knowledge of what customers really want to eat when they arrive at her shop. She has culled her favorite recipes and has included timesaving tips, permanently striving for ease and simplicity. Neither cooking nor entertaining should be a chore, according to Ina Garten, and her lovely cookbook is a case in point.
This is an intensely illustrated cookbook that shows the foods to best advantage (and makes it a lovely gift book). Presentation counts for a fantastic deal, and Garten’s food styling adds to any food platter. But just as significant are photos that bring in the spirit of fresh, locally grown produce. There’s the local poultry producer proudly holding a laying hen in case anyone should marvel where the eggs come from.
Starting with appetizers, Ina Garten isn’t worried to include such basics as hummus and guacamole: she knows from experience that her versions make a profound impact. There are French Onion Soup and Corn Cheddar Broth, Baked Virginia Ham and Salmon with Fennel, Roasted Carrots and Caramelized Butternut Squash–and then one killer dessert after another. Included, too, are some breakfast specialties. Any upscale bed and breakfast could have this book in the kitchen and get rid of all others.
This isn’t a cookbook about getting outrageous with food. The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook is about warming the hearts and souls of your guests with familiar food raised to a gourmet level. –Schuyler Ingle
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Garten is probably the most egregious of all the “leisure activity job” cooks (one could NEVER call them chefs) flogged by the Food Network (followed closely by the laughably inept Sara Moulton and Rachael Ray). Here as in her additional books, she recycles recipes done earlier and better by Martha Stewart (her obvious role model), Bert Greene, Lee Bailey, etc. Better to buy books by well trained, effective chefs like Tyler Florence, Bobby Flay, Mario Batali, etc. or at the very least, by truly gifted home cooks like Nigella Lawson or Nigel Slater. You might really learn something original from them.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Sure these recipes are tasty, many variations or adaptions of recipes that have been floating around for years. But as I read through the book, I kept thinking “Been there, done that.” I remember building fanastic lemon and pecan squares back in the 80s. Back then, my waistline could handle it. But as I get in to my 60s, I would rather exercise and maintain my figure than reach for persons 2 sticks of butter. It’s all a choice really, and if I am going to indulge, I’d rather have champagne. That’s enough.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I am an avid, but amateur chef and am getting married in Fall 05. I’ve been agreed a bunch of cookbooks. My favorite show on Food TV is the Barefoot Contessa . . . but my favorite cookbook so far, hands down, is called NOT ON LOVE ALONE by Jessie Carry Saunders. It has a friendly, intimate tone, and it feels like something written by a young woman for additional young couples. Just like Ina Garten, the recipes are elegant and tasty lacking ever feeling fussy.
It has a friendly, appealing feel, like the leader is in the kitchen with you, telling you tales about the recipes as she teaches you how to make them. Also, it’s a super-high quality book — it’s a hard take in, the pages are nice and thick, and the watercolor illustrations on every page make the book seem like something you could spectacle on your coffee table as easily as you could use it in the kitchen.
Like I said, I like the Barefoot Contessa, but if you want a similar style cookbook by a pretty young chef, my recommendation is NOT ON LOVE ALONE. Delight in!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
If you are at all a foody, you will find this book has very small to offer. I’m sure the restarant is an experience, but I was disappointed in the span of recipes. Not much there that you can’t find in your current home library.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
These recipes are too rich for my taste. The amounts of butter and cream scare me really. It may taste fantastic, but Ju Ju likes a waistline.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5