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More Than 200 Fabulous Recipes to Enjoy Every Day-With Wonderful Ideas for Variations and Inprovisations
Knopf
November 2004
448 pages
ISBN: 1400040353
Hardcover
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The best-loved and most-admired of all America’s television
cooks today, Lidia Bastianich, now gives us her most
generous, instructive, and creative cookbook. The emphasis
here is on cooking for the family, and her book is filled
with unusually delicious basic recipes for everyday eating
Italian-style, as well as imaginative ideas for variations
and improvisations. Here are more than 200 fabulous new dishes that will appeal
both to Lidia’s loyal following, who have come to rely on
her wonderfully detailed recipes, and to the more
adventurous cook ready to experiment. * She welcomes us to the table with tasty bites from the
sea (including home-cured tuna and mackerel), seasonal
salads, and vegetable surprises (Egg-Battered Zucchini Roll-
Ups, Sweet Onion Gratinate). * She reveals the secret of simple make-ahead soup bases,
delicious on their own and easy to embellish for a
scrumptious soup that can make a meal. * She opens up the wonderful world of pasta, playing with
different shapes, mixing and matching, and creating sauces
while the pasta boils; she teaches us to make fresh egg
pastas, experimenting with healthful ingredients-whole
wheat, chestnut, buckwheat, and barley. And she makes us
understand the subtle arts of polenta and risotto-making as
never before. * She shares her love of vegetables, skillet-cooking some
to intensify their flavor, layering some with yesterday’s
bread for a lasagna-like gratin, blanketing a scallop of
meat with sautéed vegetables, and finishing seasonal greens
with the perfect little sauce. * She introduces us to some lesser-known cuts of meats for
main courses (shoulders, butts, and tongue) and underused,
delicious fish (skate and monkfish), as well as to her
family’s favorite recipes for chicken and a beautiful
balsamic-glazed roast turkey. * And she explores with us the many ways fruits and crusts
(pie, strudel, cake, and toasted bread) marry and produce
delectable homey desserts to end the meal. Lidia’s warm presence is felt on every page of this book,
explaining the whys and wherefores of what she is doing,
and the brilliant photographs take us right into her home,
showing her rolling out pasta with her grandchildren,
bringing in the summer harvest, and sitting around the food-
laden family table. As she makes every meal a celebration,
she invites us to do the same, giving us confidence and joy
in the act of cooking.
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