Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics Fabulous Flavor from Simple Ingredients

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.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Ina never disappoints.
It’s another wonderful book from the Barefoot Contessa filled with dishes that won’t test your patience and yet will satisfy your taste buds. Ina never fails to make you want to try these deliciously simple and tasty recipes. Text, recipes, photos and layout are first class and attractive to every level of cooking expertise.

5 Stars “barefoot” is the best
This is the best series of cookbooks I have EVER found. Ideas are simple, elegant, and fun.

5 Stars Really excellent
This is such a complete book-great recipes, method details and entertaining tips. Good for pros and beginners alike.

5 Stars Ina is better than ever!
I have all of Ina Garten’s books and while they are all great, this is one of the best. It’s loaded with recipes that are classics and you’ll make again and again.

5 Stars Very practical
Once again, Ina has produced very complete and simple receipes to offer your family and friends. Nice variety and popular with most people. Mary S.

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Barefoot Contessa Family Style Easy Ideas and Recipes That Make Everyone Feel Like Family

Ina Garten, who shared her gift for casual entertaining in the bestselling Barefoot Contessa Cookbook and Barefoot Contessa Parties!, is back with her most enticing recipes yet—a collection of her favorite dishes for everyday cooking. In Barefoot Contessa Family Style, Ina explains that sharing our lives and tables with those we love is too essential to be saved just for special occasions—and it’s easy to do if you know how to cook irresistible meals with a minimum of fuss.

For Ina, the best way to make guests feel at home is to serve them food that’s as unpretentious as it is delicious. So in her new book, she’s collected the recipes that please her friends and family most—dishes like East Hampton Clam Chowder, Parmesan Roasted Asparagus, and Linguine with Shrimp Scampi. It’s the kind of fresh, accessible food that’s meant to be passed around the table in big bowls or platters and enjoyed with warm conversation and laughter.

In Ina’s hands tried-and-true dishes are even more delicious than you remember them: Her arugula salad is bright with the flavors of lemon and Parmesan, the Oven-Fried Chicken is crispy without excess fat, and her Deep-Dish Apple Pie has the perfect balance of fruit and spice. Barefoot Contessa Family Style also includes enticing recipes that are memorable and distinctive, like Lobster Cobb Salad, Tequila Lime Chicken, and Saffron Risotto with Butternut Squash.

With vivid photographs of Ina cooking and serving food in her beautiful Hamptons home, as well as menu suggestions, practical wisdom on what to do when disaster strikes in the kitchen, and tips on creating an inviting ambience with music, Barefoot Contessa Family Style is the must-have guide to the joy of everyday entertaining.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Barefoot Contessa Family Style
This is my 5th Barefoot Contessa cookbook and this one is every bit as wonderful as the other four books. The recipes are versatile, easy to follow and they are fail safe. I can easily prepare a new recipes from Family Style for my family or friends with the confidence that it will turn out delicious and the results are as if I had been making these recipes for years. I am very happy that I purchased this cookbook.

4 Stars Great cookbook
A friend of mine had this book and after paging thru it, I knew I wanted it. Ina Garten makes her recipes so easy to follow and there are some really great ones in this cookbook. Enjoy!

5 Stars Best Gift Ever
I love this book & have made nearly every recipe. My copy is covered in spattered oil & sticky fingers. I have given this as gifts to most of my friends & am now buying it for my sister’s 40th birthday. Hands down favorite is the fish & chips. Chicken soup not so much. Enjoy.

5 Stars A fantastic cookbook
I absolutely LOVE this cookbook! I first got it out of the library and renewed it three times. I am a novice cook but every recipe I tried out of this book made me feel like a five star chef. My husband commented repeatedly how much he enjoyed the meals I made. I made the linguine with shrimp and my guests were very impressed- I didn’t tell them how incredibly easy it was! It is my firm belief that using natural ingredients (even butter!) is a lot healthier than using processed mixes and/or processed diet foods. I have tweaked a few of these recipes a bit to fit in better with the tastes my family and I have- for example using raw spinach rather than mixed greens for the parmesan chicken, reducing the amount of butter in some recipes, and using low- sodium salt rather than kosher salt but in my opinion it hasn’t altered the recipes flavor in any way. I look forward to collecting all of the Barefoot Contessa cookbooks!

5 Stars Ina Garten is the best
Ina’s recipes are very easy to follow and turn out perfect. She is probably the best chef I have found.

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Barefoot Contessa Parties Ideas and Recipes for Easy Parties That Are Really Fun

After more than twenty years of running Barefoot Contessa, the acclaimed specialty food store, Ina Garten published her first collection of recipes. The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook was an overnight sensation, but it’s the kind of success that can only be grounded in years of experience. In it, Ina shared her ideas for familiar food but with outstanding flavor and — most important of all — recipes that really work.

Now, with Barefoot Contessa Parties! Ina shares secrets she has gleaned from her years not only as a caterer but as a dedicated party giver. The keyword here is fun. Ina’s parties are easy to prepare and fun for everyone, including the host. Forget those boring Saturday-night dinners that just won’t end. With Ina’s advice, you’re certain to have all your friends saying, “Wasn’t that fun!”

Ina has packed Barefoot Contessa Parties! with plans for pulling off parties like a pro, stories about her own parties, and tips on assembling food (rather than cooking everything) and organizing like a caterer. In the spring you can invite your friends to a party where they all make their own pizzas. Come summer, it’s into the garden for a lunch with grilled lamb and pita sandwiches that guests assemble themselves. In the autumn, when it’s not Thanksgiving, Ina roasts a fresh turkey, which her friends enjoy with popovers and a creamy spinach gratin. And on a snowy winter’s day, everyone is invited for a lunch buffet with seafood chowder and butternut squash and apple soup.

Ever since Ina published her first book, people write, e-mail, and stop her on the street to say how much they love the food. She’s reached new heights here with recipes like sour cream coffee cake–the ultimate breakfast treat. Salads? The red lettuce, balsamic onions, and blue cheese; Chinese chicken salad; and panzanella may be the best you’ve ever tasted. Filet of beef is easy to make for a fancy dinner with oh-so-good gorgonzola sauce, or sliced into sandwiches and served with lobster rolls for a Superbowl party. And fans of The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook will be delighted to find the recipe for the Lemon Cake they drooled over but only saw pictured, right here in this book.

With so many great ideas and recipes in these pages for you to use, your friends will start to wonder why your parties are always so much fun.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Barefoot Contessa Parties
This is a quality product, the best cookbook I’ve read in years! Each recipe is clear, precise, and appetizing. Yes, I will buy others written by Ina Garten.

5 Stars Exceptionally good recipes
This was my first introduction to Ina Garten and I loved this book so much, I ended up buying 2 more. Every single recipe in this book came out looking great and tasting even better. Her recipes are extremely easy to follow and are very detailed. This is great for any kind of cook, from beginner to advanced. Two thumbs up!

5 Stars Awesome recipes!
My friend invited me to a dinner party where she served the filet of beef, the gorgonzola sauce/gracy, the spinach gratin and the garlic potatoes…it was delicious! So I had to order a copy of this book for myself and the recipes are just out of this world. I’d highly recommend this to anyone who loves food.

5 Stars Forget the Fat
Forget the fat. Or don’t think about it anyway. Every recipe I’ve tried in this book is not only easy to make, but delicious. I’ve made the pesto and the pasta salad that uses it, both with great results. I’ve made the oriental dressing and have used it for salads as well as for a marinade for chicken. This is fantastic stuff–yummy and great for parties. You can’t go wrong.

4 Stars Barefoot Contessa Parties
As with all Ina books, this one was not a disappointment. Thoroughly enjoy her writing style and tried-and-true recipes.

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Barefoot Contessa Parties Ideas and Recipes for Easy Parties That Are Really Fun

After more than twenty years of running Barefoot Contessa, the acclaimed specialty food store, Ina Garten published her first collection of recipes. The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook was an overnight sensation, but it’s the kind of success that can only be grounded in years of experience. In it, Ina shared her ideas for familiar food but with outstanding flavor and — most important of all — recipes that really work.

Now, with Barefoot Contessa Parties! Ina shares secrets she has gleaned from her years not only as a caterer but as a dedicated party giver. The keyword here is fun. Ina’s parties are easy to prepare and fun for everyone, including the host. Forget those boring Saturday-night dinners that just won’t end. With Ina’s advice, you’re certain to have all your friends saying, “Wasn’t that fun!”

Ina has packed Barefoot Contessa Parties! with plans for pulling off parties like a pro, stories about her own parties, and tips on assembling food (rather than cooking everything) and organizing like a caterer. In the spring you can invite your friends to a party where they all make their own pizzas. Come summer, it’s into the garden for a lunch with grilled lamb and pita sandwiches that guests assemble themselves. In the autumn, when it’s not Thanksgiving, Ina roasts a fresh turkey, which her friends enjoy with popovers and a creamy spinach gratin. And on a snowy winter’s day, everyone is invited for a lunch buffet with seafood chowder and butternut squash and apple soup.

Ever since Ina published her first book, people write, e-mail, and stop her on the street to say how much they love the food. She’s reached new heights here with recipes like sour cream coffee cake–the ultimate breakfast treat. Salads? The red lettuce, balsamic onions, and blue cheese; Chinese chicken salad; and panzanella may be the best you’ve ever tasted. Filet of beef is easy to make for a fancy dinner with oh-so-good gorgonzola sauce, or sliced into sandwiches and served with lobster rolls for a Superbowl party. And fans of The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook will be delighted to find the recipe for the Lemon Cake they drooled over but only saw pictured, right here in this book.

With so many great ideas and recipes in these pages for you to use, your friends will start to wonder why your parties are always so much fun.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Barefoot Contessa Parties
This is a quality product, the best cookbook I’ve read in years! Each recipe is clear, precise, and appetizing. Yes, I will buy others written by Ina Garten.

5 Stars Exceptionally good recipes
This was my first introduction to Ina Garten and I loved this book so much, I ended up buying 2 more. Every single recipe in this book came out looking great and tasting even better. Her recipes are extremely easy to follow and are very detailed. This is great for any kind of cook, from beginner to advanced. Two thumbs up!

5 Stars Awesome recipes!
My friend invited me to a dinner party where she served the filet of beef, the gorgonzola sauce/gracy, the spinach gratin and the garlic potatoes…it was delicious! So I had to order a copy of this book for myself and the recipes are just out of this world. I’d highly recommend this to anyone who loves food.

5 Stars Forget the Fat
Forget the fat. Or don’t think about it anyway. Every recipe I’ve tried in this book is not only easy to make, but delicious. I’ve made the pesto and the pasta salad that uses it, both with great results. I’ve made the oriental dressing and have used it for salads as well as for a marinade for chicken. This is fantastic stuff–yummy and great for parties. You can’t go wrong.

4 Stars Barefoot Contessa Parties
As with all Ina books, this one was not a disappointment. Thoroughly enjoy her writing style and tried-and-true recipes.

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Barefoot Contessa Family Style Easy Ideas and Recipes That Make Everyone Feel Like Family

Ina Garten, who shared her gift for casual entertaining in the bestselling Barefoot Contessa Cookbook and Barefoot Contessa Parties!, is back with her most enticing recipes yet—a collection of her favorite dishes for everyday cooking. In Barefoot Contessa Family Style, Ina explains that sharing our lives and tables with those we love is too essential to be saved just for special occasions—and it’s easy to do if you know how to cook irresistible meals with a minimum of fuss.

For Ina, the best way to make guests feel at home is to serve them food that’s as unpretentious as it is delicious. So in her new book, she’s collected the recipes that please her friends and family most—dishes like East Hampton Clam Chowder, Parmesan Roasted Asparagus, and Linguine with Shrimp Scampi. It’s the kind of fresh, accessible food that’s meant to be passed around the table in big bowls or platters and enjoyed with warm conversation and laughter.

In Ina’s hands tried-and-true dishes are even more delicious than you remember them: Her arugula salad is bright with the flavors of lemon and Parmesan, the Oven-Fried Chicken is crispy without excess fat, and her Deep-Dish Apple Pie has the perfect balance of fruit and spice. Barefoot Contessa Family Style also includes enticing recipes that are memorable and distinctive, like Lobster Cobb Salad, Tequila Lime Chicken, and Saffron Risotto with Butternut Squash.

With vivid photographs of Ina cooking and serving food in her beautiful Hamptons home, as well as menu suggestions, practical wisdom on what to do when disaster strikes in the kitchen, and tips on creating an inviting ambience with music, Barefoot Contessa Family Style is the must-have guide to the joy of everyday entertaining.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Barefoot Contessa Family Style
This is my 5th Barefoot Contessa cookbook and this one is every bit as wonderful as the other four books. The recipes are versatile, easy to follow and they are fail safe. I can easily prepare a new recipes from Family Style for my family or friends with the confidence that it will turn out delicious and the results are as if I had been making these recipes for years. I am very happy that I purchased this cookbook.

4 Stars Great cookbook
A friend of mine had this book and after paging thru it, I knew I wanted it. Ina Garten makes her recipes so easy to follow and there are some really great ones in this cookbook. Enjoy!

5 Stars Best Gift Ever
I love this book & have made nearly every recipe. My copy is covered in spattered oil & sticky fingers. I have given this as gifts to most of my friends & am now buying it for my sister’s 40th birthday. Hands down favorite is the fish & chips. Chicken soup not so much. Enjoy.

5 Stars A fantastic cookbook
I absolutely LOVE this cookbook! I first got it out of the library and renewed it three times. I am a novice cook but every recipe I tried out of this book made me feel like a five star chef. My husband commented repeatedly how much he enjoyed the meals I made. I made the linguine with shrimp and my guests were very impressed- I didn’t tell them how incredibly easy it was! It is my firm belief that using natural ingredients (even butter!) is a lot healthier than using processed mixes and/or processed diet foods. I have tweaked a few of these recipes a bit to fit in better with the tastes my family and I have- for example using raw spinach rather than mixed greens for the parmesan chicken, reducing the amount of butter in some recipes, and using low- sodium salt rather than kosher salt but in my opinion it hasn’t altered the recipes flavor in any way. I look forward to collecting all of the Barefoot Contessa cookbooks!

5 Stars Ina Garten is the best
Ina’s recipes are very easy to follow and turn out perfect. She is probably the best chef I have found.

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