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Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics is the essential Ina Garten cookbook, focusing on the techniques behind her elegant food and easy entertaining style, and offering nearly a hundred brand-new recipes that will become trusted favorites. Ina Garten’s bestselling cookbooks have con-sistently provided accessible, subtly sophisticated recipes ranging from French classics made easy to delicious, simple home cooking. In Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics, Ina truly breaks down her ideas on flavor, examining the ingredients and techniques that are the foundation of her easy, refined style. Here Ina covers the essentials, from ten ways to boost the flavors of your ingredients to ten things not to serve at a party, as well as professional tips that make successful baking, cooking, and entertaining a breeze. The recipes—crowd-pleasers like Lobster Corn Chowder, Tuscan Lemon Chicken, and Easy Sticky Buns—demonstrate Ina’s talent for transforming fresh, easy-to-find ingredients into elegant meals you can make without stress. For longtime fans, Ina delivers new insights into her simple techniques; for newcomers she provides a thorough master class on the basics of Barefoot Contessa cooking plus a Q&A section with answers to the questions people ask her all the time. With full-color photographs and invaluable cooking tips, Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics is an essential addition to the cherished library of Barefoot Contessa cookbooks.

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Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics: How to Get Great Flavors from Simple Ingredients

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That said ... this is a cookbook for special occasion cooking. It has simple...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Sep 03 10:05:49 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 10:10:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jun 23 18:13:49 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 19:34:24 -0700 2009 savory palmiers - you could put just about anything in this dough and it would be delicious
pappa al pomodoro
italian wedding soup
pasta with pecorino & pepper
spring green risotto - the lemon in this is so fresh
oven-roasted vegetables
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Ina's included some of my favorite dishes:
Sweet potato fries -- I tried this both roasted and fried. Roasted is better.
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