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How to Entertain with Casual Elegance and Never Lose Your Mind, Incinerate the Souffle, or Murder the Guests
St. Martin's Press
October 2007
On Sale: October 16, 2007
256 pages
ISBN: 0312371543
EAN: 9780312371548
Kindle: B00FO9VTNY
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Did you ever have a dinner party disaster? Yes, I'm
afraid so. Have you ever bitten off more than you
could chew by cooking a complex main course? Well, yes.
Did you ever find yourself barbecuing a large pig
in your swimsuit and sarong when uninvited porn stars show
up for dinner? Uh...now wait just a
minute...
If any or all of these things happened
to you, fear not. They've all happened to
Brigit Binns, the globe-trotting expert on relaxed and
elegant entertaining, and she's here to help turn disasters
into delight. Brigit's not afraid to admit that she's
had plenty of dinner party nightmares because she's learned
from her mistakes. In The Relaxed Kitchen,
she's here to share some hilarious stories of her failures,
her embarrassments and, happily, her triumphs; but, most
importantly, she's here to share her hard-won entertaining
secrets. From a precariously balanced Napoleon dripping with
deep red berry sauce -- served in a pristine,
just-decorated, all-white London flat -- to frying an almost
hallucinatory overabundance of duck breasts and potato cakes
on a blisteringly hot terrace in Spain, Brigit's learned
what works beautifully and what doesn't. From
her years as a cookbook author, she's developed a
surefire plan that insures casually elegant entertaining.
The recipes? Well, they're just what you'd
expect from someone in love with bold, Mediterranean
flavors:
- smoky shrimp escabeche
- fried almonds
with turmeric
- Tuscan style artichokes
- roasted
pepper and sausage torta rustica
- butterflied leg of
lamb with rosemary
- roast chicken strewn with thyme
branches
- chimichurri skirt steak
- grilled lobster
with smoked paprika mayo
As Brigit says at the
opening of the book, "I fell in love with food before I got
my first bra." Only someone like Brigit, who is
passionate about cooking, whose insatiable quest to
entertain often and well has led to some questionable
decisions and amusing results could persevere and arrive at
a fail-safe plan for entertaining with elegance and ease.
So invite Brigit Binns home, and make your own kitchen
a Relaxed Kitchen
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