Good recipes, easy to make, very summer focuses

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	• Barefoot Contessa at Home: Everyday Recipes You'll Make Over and Over Again Ina Garten Clarkson Potter, 2006 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 130 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

the book is fabulous

As with all the Barefoot Contessa books, the recipes are useful and easy to follow and yield delicious results.

Easy Read

Recipes in Barefoot Contessa at Home is easy to read and follow. Would recommend as addition to cookery book collection or a nice housewarming present .

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Ina is definitely the BEST!!!

Ina is definitely the best out there. Best dishes I ever cooked thanks to her. Love You Ina!

Barefoot Contessa at Home

This is a beautifully designed cookbook containing recipes which any novice can create. And the recipes are OH SO DELICIOUS!!! I enjoy cooking but lack true culinary experience. Ina has provided a variety of dishes that are simple to make and some recipes that will appeal to those who have more cooking and baking knowledge.

For example, her recipes ask for fresh herbs. I've only used dried herbs and had no idea how to prepare the fresh for a recipe. She instructs you 'how' to remove the leaves from the stem and for me this is most beneficial having no training in cooking whatsoever. Fresh dill is amazing! I don't think I'll ever use dill weed again!

Thank you Ina.

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Good recipes, easy to make, very summer focuses

This is a very good cookbook with a wide variety of easy to make but yummy sounding recipes. It is very summer focused. By which I mean all the recipes seem like something one would serve a t a summer party in the Hamptons...I guess that is Ina's shtick. Overall a good addition to any home cooks shelf.

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Throughout the years that she has lived and worked in East Hampton, Ina Garten has catered and attended countless parties and dinners. She will be the first to tell you, though, that nothing beats a cozy dinner, surrounded by the people you love most, in the comfort that only your own home can provide. In Barefoot Contessa at Home, Ina shares her life in East Hampton, the recipes she loves, and her secrets to making guests feel welcome and comfortable.

For Ina, it?s friends and family?gathered around the dinner table or cooking with her in the kitchen?that really make her house feel like home. Here Ina offers the tried-and-true recipes that she makes over and over again because they?re easy, they work, and they?re universally loved. For a leisurely Sunday breakfast, she has Easy Cheese Danishes or Breakfast Fruit Crunch to serve with the perfect Spicy Bloody Mary. For lunch, she has classics with a twist, such as Tomato, Mozzarella, and Pesto Paninis and Old-Fashioned Potato Salad, which are simply delicious. Then there are Ina?s homey dinners?from her own version of loin of pork stuffed with sautéed fennel to the exotic flavors of Eli?s Asian Salmon. And since Ina knows no one ever forgets what you serve for dessert, she includes recipes for outrageously luscious sweets like Peach and Blueberry Crumble, Pumpkin Mousse Parfait, and Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Icing.

Ina also lets readers in on her time-tested secrets for cooking and entertaining. Get the inside scoop on everything from what Ina considers when she?s designing a kitchen to menu-planning basics and how to make a dinner party fun (here?s a hint: it doesn?t involve making complicated food!).

Along with beautiful photographs of Ina?s dishes, her home, and the East Hampton she loves, this book is filled with signature recipes that strike the perfect balance between elegance and casual comfort. With her most indispensable collection yet, Ina Garten proves beyond a shadow of doubt that there truly is no place like home.

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