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Giada’s Kitchen:
For a gallery of images, recipes and other interior book information, click here. Autographed Bookplates Available While They Last! She’s taught us every facet of Italian cooking–from traditional and regional to seasonal and contemporary. She even made us fall in love with pasta again by opening us up to lighter, healthier versions that don’t weigh us down. Now the Food Network star and bestselling author of Everyday Pasta, Giada De Laurentiis, takes us down a new path, sharing her love of food with clean, vibrant, simple flavors and bursts of bright colors that look as beautiful on the plate as they are delicious. Yes, you will still find those fabulous recipes she remembers so fondly from family meals, but you’ll also find updated twists on classic trattoria favorites–California-inflected, hearty but not overwhelming, and with the perfect balance of healthfulness and terrific flavor. Wouldn’t you love a faster, lighter take on osso buco (here made with turkey instead of veal), a salad with real substance (like one of cantaloupe, red onion, and walnuts), and fish that gets an Italian makeover by way of lots of fresh veggies and accents such as fennel and grapefruit salsa? And let’s not forget dessert. After all, what’s not to adore about little doughnuts dipped in chocolate sauce? Ranging from soups and snacks to easy entrées and elegant dinner-party fare, Giada’s recipes are perfect for any day of the week. And for the first time, she includes a full section of dishes that the little ones will love making as much as they love eating (like mini chicken meatballs). With something to please everyone at your table, Giada’s Kitchen deliciously demonstrates why Giada De Laurentiis has become America’s best-loved Italian cook. Italy meets California In Giada De Laurentiis’s collection of 100 new recipes, she focuses on fresh ingredients, simple preparation, and bright flavors. Anyone who wants to indulge in the pleasures of Italian food without feeling weighed down will find inspiration for delicious, hearty yet healthy weekday meals. Giada’s recipes satisfy both our desire to eat with gusto and to feel good about what we eat..-.
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Fiamma:
The high-profile chef of New York’s acclaimed Fiamma restaurant brings his contemporary spin on classic Italian cuisine to home cooks. Italian cooking is a perennial favorite, and acclaimed chef Michael White’s fresh take on Italian dishes has made Fiamma one of the most popular restaurants in New York City today. Though inspired by classic Italian cuisine, White’s cooking includes a stylish contemporary flair and uses fresh, local American ingredients. With 110 recipes that fuse Old World flavors and modern techniques, this cookbook shares the spirit and style of cooking that have made Fiamma such a hit among critics and customers alike. These restaurant-quality dishes will please even the most discriminating palates, yet are simple enough to be within reach of even relatively inexperienced cooks. Capping off the book are dessert recipes from Fiamma’s pastry chef, Elizabeth Katz, which include updated twists on Italian classics such as Blackberry Gelato and Cup of Tiramisu. More than 75 bold, stunning full-color photos throughout contribute to a stylish package guaranteed to pop off the shelf. Michael White (New York, NY) trained with Italy’s elite chefs for eight years before becoming the chef de cuisine at Spiaggia in Chicago. In 2000, he became executive chef at Fiamma Osteria, which was the Zagat 2004 Best Italian Restaurant in NYC. White was Esquire’s Chef of the Year in 2002.-.
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Jamie’s Italy
Bestselling author Jamie Oliver finally devotes an entire book to America’s favorite cuisine — Italian! Italy and its wonderful flavors have always had a major influence on Jamie Oliver’s food and cooking. In Jamie’s Italy, he travels this famously gastronomic country paying homage to the classic dishes of each region and searching for new ideas to bring home. The result is a sensational collection of Italian recipes, old and new, that will ensure that Italy’s influence reaches us all. Italy has inspired Jamie Oliver throughout his career. His ambition has always been to travel across the country on a quest to capture the very essence of Italian cooking — and to produce the best and simplest Italian cookbook for everybody anywhere to enjoy. Jamie’s Italy is the result of that journey — and it’s a land of plenty. As well as providing more than 120 brand-new recipes for everything from risotto to roasts and spaghetti to stews, structured as traditional trattoria menus, Jamie takes you all over Italy to cook with and learn from the real masters of Italian cuisine: the locals. Far from the standard lemons and olives version of Italian cooking, Jamie’s Italy is a cookbook by the people for the people. From Sicily to Tuscany, it’s about the local fishermen, family bakers, and, of course, the Mamas, sharing their recipes and the tips that have gone into their cooking for generations. But it’s not only mouthwatering food that Jamie brings back home: it’s also the spirit that makes cooking and eating absolutely central to family life, whichever part of Italy you’re in. Bursting with the warmth and hospitality of real family life, this is both a superbly accessible cookbook and a unique travelogue and diary, in which you’ll find the authentic flavor of Italy and the people who live there. If you love quality food prepared with genuine passion — you’ll never want to leave Jamie’s Italy..-.
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There is something special about tomatoes that you grow yourself. From your own Italian herb garden, they seem redder, tastier, plumper, and they are just perfect for any salad or recipe you need to use them for. When you see them at the supermarket, their coloring is pink. They just do not look healthy. In fact, they look sick. If you are desperate, and you need a tomato in your salad that evening, you buy it anyway. And you are always sorry you spent that money on a tomato that was not properly ripened and was too expensive.
If you do a lot of cooking, you will want to plant the herbs that you use the most. Along with your vegetables of choice, your herbs should be planted in the garden at the appropriate distance from each other, and it helps to label them, as well. Since they are going to be eaten, be sure not to add pesticides. Use an all-organic fertilizer. If you are not sure if your fertilizer is organic, you can use the soil from your backyard mixed with rabbit manure or chicken manure for best results. You can also add your own mix of various organic amendments.
For Italian cooking, you might want as numerous parsley, basil, oregano, and thyme plants as you are able to fit in one area. For Mexican cooking, some cilantro would be excellent. Try to maintain the cilantro far apart from the parsley, as they appear really a lot the same. There ought to also be a row of peppers, hot and sweet.
Dill is really a favorite among those who like to make salads and deviled eggs. It’s a delicate plant, but it’s simple to grow, even inside a cooler summer. Rosemary is fantastic on lamb and in soups. And mint is really a excellent aromatic herb for tea. Sage is also excellent for soups and stews.
In case you are fortunate sufficient to live inside a climate that brings a lengthy spring and summer to your backyard, you might grow sufficient herbs and vegetables to give to neighbors and friends, or even sell to local markets. You may also think about giving some of your herbs and create to needy food pantries.
If you live where summers are short, no worry, you can do lots of things to keep your herbs all year long. Basil may be repotted and kept in the kitchen for half the winter. It may continue to grow even longer than that. Many of the other herbs can be frozen, along with the peppers. Just pull off the stems, cut them up, and they are ready to add to meals for the rest of the year. Some hot peppers can even be strung up to hang in a decorative bunch for gifts.
You might want to keep some of your basil frozen, as well, and you should put a few drops of olive oil on it to keep the leaves separated as they freeze. They will be easier to pull apart when you need them. Sage can dry and be placed in a vase for your constant use during the rest of the year. Other herbs can be very slowly dried in a warm oven, and then bottled as they do with your seasons in the stores.
You are able to feed your loved ones wholesome, all organic foods that you simply have planted your self all 12 months lengthy. The cash you’ll save from not getting to depend on the supermarkets is going to be nicely worth getting your personal herb garden.
authentic. This is because but a couple of us have really tried consuming Italian dishes. Commonly we are enticed to thinking that eating a Caesars salad in some fancy restaurant is tantamount to a real Italian dining experience. But the sharp-tasting tones of the salad are what expose your dubious Italian dining. Italian cooking is all about balance and refinement of flavor. And let us admit it; we own American palettes that are accustomed to feeding on those dishes that ostensibly burst in our mouths because of the intensity of tones.
After you get inside an American-Italian restaurant, the prime thing you want to look at is the bread they are serving up. Often, they serve white bread finished with tomato. This is quite Italian in itself, but unremarkably, they come already cold. If you require the real Italian experience, you should go to an Italian restaurant that dishes up hot bread straight from the oven, like virtually all Italians do for their folks back in Italy. You get crusty bread in the outside, but soft in the inside. And nothing can beat hot, homemade bread.
Next, order their salads. Almost all American-Italian eating houses will serve a basic favorite which is Caesars salad. But as I have mentioned before, Caesars salad is a really strong dish. It can sweep over your taste buds, so it is definitely not for the faint hearted. But if you are in a real Italian restaurant, you will learn that you will have to choose an antipasto before you can proceed with your meal. Italians make sure that they prepare food with quite delicate flavors. They hate adding too much dressing or condiments. They desire the flavors to slowly pop in your mouth while you are consuming it, and not simply in one bite.
The primo follows the antipasto.A bunch of American-Italian eateries will not follow this Italian pattern of eating so they will plausibly serve you with a very robust dish that will leave you considering that you have already ingested the whole plate with merely one bite. As I have articulated, it should be all about proportion. As they say, it is not about the pasta sauce; it is about the pasta. In a true Italian eatery, you will be able to sample that their food has quite intense tones as well but they do not sweep over you. It is as if there is just adequate balance of boldness and subtlety. And you cannot argue with homemade pasta from those Italian ristorantes. Most Italian eating places make their pasta using meat extruders so the resulting pasta is thick and chewy. And one thing that you need to observe in genuine Italian restaurants is that they do not like their pasta to be swimming in thick sauce. They desire it to merely coat the pasta so that when you take a bite on the dish, you do not just savor the sauce but you sample the pasta as well. This is a good thing of because the pasta is the focal point of the dish.
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Marcella Cucina
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Marcella Cucina
Child Best International Cookbook Award! Beard Best Mediterranean Cookbook Award! Since the publication of her first book, The Classic Italian Cookbook, more than 20 years ago, Marcella Hazan has been hailed as the queen of Italian cooking in America. Marcella, whose name conjures up a splendid world of food for the devoted millions who love her books and attend her cooking classes, is back again with her finest book yet, Marcella Cucina. Filled with the passion and personality of its author, it is a book not only of fine food and its careful preparation but of personal reminiscences and penetrating commentary about the sensual pleasure of food and its place in our lives. In vivid introductory essays and seductive headnotes, the narrative of an extraordinary culinary life unfolds. With each memory of a trip, a meal or a flavor, we are treated to the perspective of a great cook and teacher–one who believes that the finest Italian cooking is found in the home. In Marcella Cucina, she focuses on regional cooking, turning her sharp eye to every area of Italy and offering a rich array of flavors and textures from cities and villages alike. Best of all, Marcella cooks at your side with easy-to-follow instructions and lavish full-color photographs that teach you her techniques–from preparing homemade pasta to cleaning artichokes–and allow you flawlessly to re-create her magic in your own kitchen..-.
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