Everyday Italian: 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes

Everyday Italian: 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes See Latest Price & Discount EAN: 9781400052585 Editorial Reviews: Book Description 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. Customer Reviews: Review #1: Easy Cooking 2007-03-18 The instructions are easy enough to follow but its just for those who want to try to make it b/c so of the things is much cheaper to buy premade at the market. Review #2: Great Book 2007-03-18 This is an excellent book. I had originally purchased one by Mario Batali and then I picked up this one. Mario's is collecting dust. I have made about half the recipes in the book and all but one has been excellent. I agree with some of the reverse printing comments. It makes some of the recipes hard to read. As far as the pictures of Giada, who cares? I don't buy cookbooks for pictures, or no pictures. I buy and use cookbooks for the recipes. Review #3: Reminds me of Grandma's basement 2007-03-18 I remember Sundays in Grandma's basement with 35 uncles, aunts and cousins having that great Italian meal - the never-ending Italian meal. We kids used to put on little shows in between courses. If you are a lover of Italian food I recommend you get this book. It brings me back to my Brooklyn roots...delicious! Frank Scoblete: author of Golden Touch Blackjack Revolution! and Golden Touch Dice Control Revolution! Review #4: Straight-Forward Recipes 2007-03-17 If you're a novice cook looking for an uncomplicated Italian cookbook or if you're looking for straight-foward meals with an Italian flare, the recipes here will meet your needs and expectations. Most of the ingredients are readily available at your neighborhood grocery; the language is direct with easy to follow instructions and explanations; and De Laurentiis is honest in presenting the fact that a number of the recipes in the book are "not for dieters." The book really does contain simple and very good to delicious recipes. The book's downfall (and the reason for my 3-star rating) is in the design and layout. Though the book is printed in a sans serif font with decent use of white space, as another reviewer indicated, some of the recipes are printed in reverse or in very light colors, such as white on light green or light green on white, making them difficult to read and making it hard to keep your place while cooking. For anyone with low vision, the recipes on these particular pages will be totally inaccessible. Fortunately, a majority of the book contains somewhat better contrast, though still it is gray on white, not black and white. The glossy cookbook does not lack for photos--unfortunately, very few are of food and even fewer are of the dishes themselves. That would be the food dishes, not the dishy cook. Of De Laurentiis, photos are plentiful. Some photos are your typical, glamorous, "My dentist loves me" vogue shots but much of the photography has an odd, voyeuristic quality that one would not anticipate in a cookbook. The style makes the book feel a little obsessive and frankly a little creepy. De Laurentiis' B-movie, 'What's that noise behind me?' pose on page 237 made me wonder if that's what Nancy Drew looks like in the kitchen. Recipes, thumbs up. Book design and photography, thumbs down. Review #5: Great Eating 2007-03-16 I purchased two of Giada's cookbooks for my wife. She watched Giada's "Everyday Italian" show frequently and had started using some of the recipes that I printed from the internet. The books are an easier way for my wife to find the recipes, and have added many updated and healthy meals to her already extensive repetoire. My wife is happy to have the selection and I am eating better.