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Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook

Book by Ina Garten

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Publisher : Clarkson Potter (October 25, 2022) Language : English Hardcover : 256 pages ISBN-10 : 1984822780 ISBN-13 : 978-1984822789 Item Weight : 2.33 pounds Dimensions : 7.86 x 0.93 x 10.28 inches Best Sellers Rank: #19 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1 in Quick & Easy Cooking (Books) #1 in Comfort Food Cooking (Books) #2 in Celebrity & TV Show Cookbooks , #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • America’s favorite home cook presents delicious, crowd-pleasing, go-to recipes that you’ll want to make over and over again! Even Ina Garten, America's most-trusted and beloved home cook, sometimes finds cooking stressful. To make life easy she relies on a repertoire of recipes that she knows will turn out perfectly every time. Cooking night after night during the pandemic inspired her to re-think the way she approached dinner, and the result is this collection of comforting and delicious recipes that you’ll love preparing and serving. You’ll find lots of freeze-ahead, make-ahead, prep-ahead, and simply assembled recipes so you, too, can make dinner a breeze. In Go-To Dinners , Ina shares her strategies for making her most satisfying and uncomplicated dinners. Many, like Overnight Mac & Cheese, you can make ahead and throw in the oven right before dinner. Light dinners like Tuscan White Bean Soup can be prepped ahead and assembled at the last minute. Go-to family meals like Chicken in a Pot with Orzo and Hasselback Kielbasa will feed a crowd with very little effort. And who doesn’t want to eat Breakfast For Dinner? You’ll find recipes for Scrambled Eggs Cacio e Pepe and Roasted Vegetables with Jammy Eggs that are a snap to make and so satisfying. Ina’s “Two-Fers” guide you on how to turn leftovers from one dinner into something different and delicious the second night. And sometimes the best dinner is one you don’t even have to cook! You’ll find Ina’s favorite boards to serve with store-bought ingredients, like an Antipasto Board and Breakfast-for-Dinner Board that are fun to assemble and so impressive to serve. Finally, because no meal can be considered dinner without dessert, there are plenty of prep-ahead and easy sweets like a Bourbon Chocolate Pecan Pie and Beatty’s Chocolate Cupcakes that everyone will rave about. For Ina, “I love you, come for dinner” is more than just an invitation to share a meal, it’s a way to create a community of friends and family who love and take care of each other, and we all need that now more than ever. These go-to recipes will give you the confidence to create dinners that will bring everyone to your table. Read more

REVIEW

Buying this cookbook is more like buying a coffee table book than a cookbook Expect beautiful photographs of food and smiling faces from New England/East coast Hamptons elite Ina Garten has taken the place of Martha Stewart as the chef hostess you would most like to eat with Each recipe comes with a picture of finished recipe The recipes are on the sparse side (low in number of recipes), but on the simple side (some recipes call for just 2-3 ingredients), quite a few are more side dishes than actual main entree recipes, and BOARDS seem to be a favorite of late Not all the recipes are Ina Garten alone creations, she gives credit for recipes from people she has learned from or tweaked a bit In doing a search of Ina's cookbooks through the yrs, I noticed they all follow the same recipe of offerings: drinks, appetizers, breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts She seems like a pleasant person who loves to cook for people and has tested her recipes multiple times before putting to book, but as a chef extraordinaire in terms of unique flavors, techniques, etc, I'm not so sure I like the book. Look forward to trying some of the recipes, but not sure I would purchase every Ina Garten cookbook out there However, if you like drooling over gorgeous photography of food in upper crust settings, this book is for you

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