I didn't find the recipes in this one quite as appealing. It could be the combination of the California experimentation with the Italian meals, or perhaps just that it's a bit more experimental in flavors. Not sure, but I do know I won't ever cook with at least 2/3 of the ingredients she uses in ...
This is my favorite cookbook by Giada. I think the recipes are all realistic and good tasting. Really simple good soups-my favorite: Beef and cannellini bean minestrone and shrimp and sausage cioppino. Her toasted ciabatta with shrimp, tarragon and arugula is really really good, it's one of my fa...
Originally posted on Sarahsbookshelf.com: I go back and forth about how I feel about Giada de Laurentiis. She’s beautiful and she’s a great chef, but I don’t love her books consistently. I find that many of her recipes to be unnecessarily complicated or require weird ingredients. My personal bias...
In her hit Food Network show Everyday Italian, Giada De Laurentiis shows you how to cook delicious, beautiful food in a flash. And here, in her long-awaited first book, she does the same—helps you put a fabulous dinner on the table tonight, for friends or just for the kids, with a minimum of fuss...
Collects Italian cookery recipes that range from classic favorites to innovative new dishes and are accompanied by simple instructions for making fresh pasta and a selection of side dishes.
They help me detox and get back on track, filling me with essential nutrients that are good for my body. I might have a smoothie for breakfast, some warm plain brown rice and possibly some scrambled egg whites for lunch, a juice in the afternoon, and then my Detox Broth with poached chicken for d...
But red sauce goes well beyond the greasy, garlic-laden stuff from the pizza parlor. The classic marinara sauce is simple and fresh, redolent with the flavors of sweet onions, carrots, and celery as well as the aromas of garlic and olive oil—but in moderation, not in the overpowering fashion of a...