Barefoot Contessa at Home: Everyday Recipes You’ll Make Over and Over Again: A Cookbook-Quality Guarantee

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Throughout the years that she has lived and worked in East Hampton, Ina Garten hascatered and attended countless parties and dinners. She will be the first to tellyou, though, that nothing beats a cozy dinner, surrounded by the people you lovemost, in the comfort that only your own home can Barefoot Contessa atHome, Ina shares her life in East Hampton, the recipes she loves, and her secretsto making guests feel welcome and comfortable.

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

Ina alsolets readers in on her time-tested secrets for cooking and entertaining. Get theinside scoop on everything from what Ina considers when she’s designing a kitchento 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 recipesthat strike the perfect balance between elegance and casual her mostindispensable collection yet, Ina Garten proves beyond a shadow of doubt that theretruly is no place like home.