Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook


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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • America’s favorite home cook presents delicious, crowd-pleasing, go-to recipes that you’ll want to make over and over again!
Even Ina Garten, America’s most-trusted and beloved home cook, sometimes finds cooking stressful. To make life easy she relies on a repertoire of recipes that she knows will turn out perfectly every time. Cooking night after night during the pandemic inspired her to re-think the way she approached dinner, and the result is this collection of comforting and delicious recipes that you’ll love preparing and serving. You’ll find lots of freeze-ahead, make-ahead, prep-ahead, and simply assembled recipes so you, too, can make dinner a breeze.
In Go-To Dinners, Ina shares her strategies for making her most satisfying and uncomplicated dinners. Many, like Overnight Mac & Cheese, you can make ahead and throw in the oven right before dinner. Light dinners like Tuscan White Bean Soup can be prepped ahead and assembled at the last minute. Go-to family meals like Chicken in a Pot with Orzo and Hasselback Kielbasa will feed a crowd with very little effort. And who doesn’t want to eat Breakfast For Dinner? You’ll find recipes for Scrambled Eggs Cacio e Pepe and Roasted Vegetables with Jammy Eggs that are a snap to make and so satisfying. Ina’s “Two-Fers” guide you on how to turn leftovers from one dinner into something different and delicious the second night.
And sometimes the best dinner is one you don’t even have to cook! You’ll find Ina’s favorite boards to serve with store-bought ingredients, like an Antipasto Board and Breakfast-for-Dinner Board that are fun to assemble and so impressive to serve. Finally, because no meal can be considered dinner without dessert, there are plenty of prep-ahead and easy sweets like a Bourbon Chocolate Pecan Pie and Beatty’s Chocolate Cupcakes that everyone will rave about.
For Ina, “I love you, come for dinner” is more than just an invitation to share a meal, it’s a way to create a community of friends and family who love and take care of each other, and we all need that now more than ever. These go-to recipes will give you the confidence to create dinners that will bring everyone to your table.

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Avocado & Fried Egg Tartines

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Ploughman’s Lunch

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Pink Grapefruit Palomas

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Overnight Mac & Cheese

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Chicken in a Pot with Orzo

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Dark Chocolate Tart

Ina says we all need community in our lives...I think you’ll agree that it all starts with dinner!Ina says we all need community in our lives...I think you’ll agree that it all starts with dinner!

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Clarkson Potter
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 25, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1984822780
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1984822789
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.28 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.81 x 0.86 x 10.34 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #1,201 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #6 in Comfort Food Cooking (Books) #8 in Celebrity & TV Show Cookbooks #11 in Quick & Easy Cooking (Books)
Customer Reviews: 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 3,677 ratings var dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction; P.when(‘A’, ‘ready’).execute(function(A) 0) + 1); ); P.when(‘A’, ‘cf’).execute(function(A) { A.declarative(‘acrStarsLink-click-metrics’, ‘click’, { “allowLinkDefault” : true }, function(event){ if(window.ue) { ue.count(“acrStarsLinkWithPopoverClickCount”, (ue.count(“acrStarsLinkWithPopoverClickCount”) || 0) + 1); } }); });

Customers say

Customers find the cookbook’s recipes reliable and easy to follow, with one noting they’re not complicated or overly exotic. Moreover, the book features gorgeous pictures, simple elegance, and readily available ingredients, while being written with love. Additionally, they appreciate its style and consider it a great gift, particularly for beginners. However, the pacing receives mixed reactions, with some loving Ina’s approach while others find it uninspired.

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