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Barefoot Contessa Family Style: Easy Ideas and Recipes That Make Everyone Feel Like Family
Ina Garten, who shared her gift for casual entertaining in the bestselling Barefoot Contessa Cookbook and Barefoot Contessa Parties!, is back with her most enticing recipes yet—a collection of her favorite dishes for everyday cooking. In Barefoot Contessa Family Style, Ina explains that sharing our lives and tables with those we love is too essential to be saved just for s...more
Hardcover, 240 pages
Published
October 29th 2002
by Clarkson Potter
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I like Ina's recipes/books a lot, but this book was a bit of a let down if you consider yourself any kind of a cook. Do I really need a recipe for roasted potatoes? Ingredients - Potatoes, salt, pepper and olive oil. Pretty much a no-brainer.
But the book does have some great recipes - specifically the Sagaponack Corn Pudding and the Tequila Lime Chicken. both were big winners when I made them.
But the book does have some great recipes - specifically the Sagaponack Corn Pudding and the Tequila Lime Chicken. both were big winners when I made them.
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Visually stimulating and mouth watering! Ina Garten makes everything seem accessible through her clear instructions. We have all read those recipes that can inspire fear just through their length. This book does not contain a single one.
Sharing food is an act of love and it makes cooking so much more enjoyable when you remind yourself that you are doing it for someone you love, whether or not it is yourself or someone else.
Since Ina firmly believes that hosts/hostesses should...more
Sharing food is an act of love and it makes cooking so much more enjoyable when you remind yourself that you are doing it for someone you love, whether or not it is yourself or someone else.
Since Ina firmly believes that hosts/hostesses should...more
I've only made 3 recipes from this book so far: Linguine with Shrimp Scampi, Pasta with Sun-Dried Tomotoes (the quintessential pot-luck bring-along) and the Lasagna with Turkey Sausage. The recipes are not the very, very easiest in the world, but they are PRETTY darn easy. We're talking 30 min. prep time and maybe 30 min. cooking time, and, that's for stuff you can make for folks who are coming over to your home. There are great pictures, too - I like to know what I'm shooting for. When I wa...more
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I adore all her cookbooks, but this one is my least favourite, I suppose I was spoiled with the first 2 I had and was lloking for a bit more original ideas. Although once again all her recipes are easy and delicious. Her books are so appealing she has found the wonderful balance of clarity and clearness in her recipes and photos.
When you begin reading this book you allost feel like jumping up to organise a family luncheon!
The only frustrating thing is the measurements in US no metric! ...more
When you begin reading this book you allost feel like jumping up to organise a family luncheon!
The only frustrating thing is the measurements in US no metric! ...more
I love her recipe books for the simple fruit and veggie recipes and the delicious desserts. I feel like her main dish recipes are not always my taste. I am really picky with what I think a cookbook should look like. I think she got it right. Each recipe has a picture, big fonts, simple and not too much on the page to distract my eyes. She gives great tips and explanations.
I haven't watched any of her shows or read any of her other cookbooks, and I can't say I'm thrilled with this one. I've made a dozen or so recipes in the past year, and the only one I've made more than once is the buffalo chicken wings. The recipes are a little too bland for me and don't seem particularly unique.
I'm really glad that I rec'd this as a CHristmas present (thanks Sarah). I haven't tried too many recipes yet, but everytime I look at this book I 'hear' her voice, which is so soothing - it says 'comfort food' everytime.
Good recipes. Great ideas. Combines food in unusual and successful ways--but too much fat, and often not enough seasoning. That said, I have several of her recipes as go-to buffet line items that never fail.
I was not as impressed with the recipes in this book as in others. I think because several of the recipes involved children helping out and cutesy stuff for them to eat. That's just not my style at the moment...
Love a cookbook with tons of photos. Although Ina's presentation is undoubtedly better than mine, the hubby thinks I am a master chef while cooking her recipes. Love love the parmesean chicken.
- Never read Barefoot Contessa cookbooks on an empty stomach.
- I want to be Ina Garten when I grow up.
- If I can't be Ina, then I want her to be my next-door neighbor.
- I want to be Ina Garten when I grow up.
- If I can't be Ina, then I want her to be my next-door neighbor.
One of the first of Ina Garten's books that I bought after watching her on Food Network. I really enjoy this one, and look at it often for new ideas/recipies to try.
Wasn't familiar with Garten until I attended a bridal shower where the food was prepared from her cookbooks - it was so delicious!! I went out and bought this cookbook!! Everything I have made has been wonderful; my husband has loved it and I have also taken dishes to functions and people have asked for recipes (so I tell them the same story about going to the bridal shower/etc.).... =) Also, ingredients are items most people have in their kitchen already (always a plus!). Yes, the recipes a...more
one of my go-to cookbooks. the turkey sausage lasagna, broccoli & bow ties & sauteed carrots are staples around my house.
I NEED this cookbook!!!! I borrowed it from a neighbor and everything I have tried has tasted AMAZING!
It reminds me that eating together with the people you love is something to be done often!
Ina is my go to woman for entertaining. While not for everyday, her recipes are no fail.
I love this cookbook!!! My goal is to make six more recipes from it this week.
After reading her other books, there wasn't much in it for me.
Love all her cookbooks and she has never lead me astray!!!
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Haven't made all the recipes, but would like to do so.
Her style is good but pretty basic French cooking.
lovely food. lovely pictures. love Ina!
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What can I say...great cook book!!
I love the Barefoot Contessa!
My favorite of her cookbooks
More delicious, easy-to-follow recipes, with beautiful illustrations. This wouldn't be the first Barefoot Contessa book I would buy (I would recommend The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, but it's nice to have more of her recipes.
My mother-in-law and sister-in-law love these cookbooks. I had looked through them years ago, but recently read this one to find out what was in it that I remembered. I love her way of writing about food, and the recipes are fairly simple and ones everyone would like. There were only a few things that I thought I would never make. But, after I had looked at every single recipe, I was really happy with this cookbook.
parmesan chicken was great, avoid the chicken stew with biscuits (was disappointing and tasted very off), lasagna with turkey sausage is one of my favorite recipes that i make time and time again, roasted winter veggies, string beans and shallots, zucchini with parmesan, & rum raisin rice pudding (makes a ton but its delicious, as it should be with 5 cups of cream and boose)
Her cookbooks are a big must-have in our family. We do, however, call it 'Would you like some fatty-fat with your fatty-fat?' cookbook. Cream, half-and-half, cheese, butter all make repeat performances in many of the dishes. But in the end, does anything with those ingredients ever suck?
Favorites: The Turkey Lasagna, Sagaponack Corn Pudding and the Parmesan Chicken.
Favorites: The Turkey Lasagna, Sagaponack Corn Pudding and the Parmesan Chicken.
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Ina Rosenberg Garten is an American author, host of the Food Network program Barefoot Contessa, and former White House nuclear policy analyst. Known for designing recipes with an emphasis on fresh ingredients and time-saving tips, she has been noted by Martha Stewart, Oprah Winfrey, and Patricia Wells for her cooking and home entertaining.
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