Barefoot Contessa Parties! Ideas and Recipes for Easy Parties That Are Really Fun by Ina Garten Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Barefoot Contessa Parties! Ideas and Recipes for Easy Parties That Are Really Fun
Book Review: Entertaining without the headache
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this book. I have used the recipes countless times. Especially the one with shrimp and mango salsa. Roasted pork, endive salad with avocado, pesto, delicious....
I so agree with her entertaining philosophy, entertaining friends especially, is about enjoying each other's company better experience when you have delicious food...!
Book Review: Best book on Parties I've ever read!
Summary: 5 Stars
Ina Garten has it down to a science - but a very relaxed science, at that. She teaches you how to throw a dinner party, garden party, even a child's birthday party with maximum style and class, and minimum stress. I love this book. I love the recipes and ideas and have used many of them on different occasions - often mixing and matching from different sections. The book is divided into four seasons, which makes perfect sense when planning a party - because it makes life so much easier when you use what is seasonally available for recipes as well as planning seasonally appropriate venues and activities for the party - indoor vs. outdoor, what type of drinks to enjoy, etc. I can't say enough good things about this book - you need it in your cookbook collection. I loaned it to someone and missed it dearly for the several weeks it was gone. I even considered purchasing a second one - just in case.Book Review: great book
Summary: 5 Stars
This cookbook is great to have in the kitchen. I've cooked several of the recipes and they've always turned out successfully! Most of the recipes are easy to follow and taste great.In the same category of book I book Simple and Simply Delicious by Sylvie Rocher. Both of those book are greatBook Review: She Loves To Throw a Great Party!
Summary: 5 Stars
I just love to read the intros to great cookbooks. They tell the story of the rest of the work. Here, what I never knew before about this great cook: how she came to the Barefoot Contessa: She loved to throw great parties!
Arranged around the four seasons, she provides four menus for events like Sunday breakfast, Canoe trip, Birthday, Christmas, Snow Day, Fireside Dinner.
Great solid recipes that are not too complicated or overpowering on the exotic ingredients nor techniques, just great party offerings such as: Perfect Poached Fruit;Carmel Chocolate Nut Ice Cream; Smashed Sweet Potatoes with Apples (this is soooo good!!); Fennel Soup Gratin; Vegetaple PotPie.
Couple this with lavish Clarkston Potter superb layout, writing and color photos, and advice on scheduling, decorating, invites, etc. and this is great work for you who like Ina enjoy feeding and entertaining others. Love your advice: Never seem like you're not cool about what's happening, even though it seems disastrous.
Book Review: wonderfull book
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this book. The recipes are wonderful. I'm a big fan of ina garten. I offer this book to one of my friend and she was delighted, it's a beautiful book.
I also bought Simple and Simply Delicious by Sylvie Rocher it's also a beautiful, wonderful book.