Smitten Kitchen Cookbook: Recipes and Wisdom from an Obsessive Home Cook-Fast Shipping

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Title: Smitten Kitchen Cookbook: Recipes and Wisdom from an Obsessive Home Cook

Author: Deb Perelman

ISBN: 9780307595652

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2012

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Edition: 1

Condition Note: New from the publisher

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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – Celebrated food blogger and best-selling cookbook author Deb Perelman knows just the thing for a Tuesday night, or your most special occasion–from salads and slaws that make perfect side dishes (or a full meal) to savory tarts and galettes; from Mushroom Bourguignon to Chocolate Hazelnut Crepe. “Innovative, creative, and effortlessly funny.” —Cooking Light Deb Perelman loves to cook. She isn’t a chef or a restaurant owner–she’s never even waitressed. Cooking in her tiny Manhattan kitchen was, at least at first, for special occasions–and, too often, an unnecessarily daunting venture. Deb found herself overwhelmed by the number of recipes available to her. Have you ever searched for the perfect birthday cake on Google? You’ll get more than three million results. Where do you start? What if you pick a recipe that’s downright bad?With the same warmth, candor, and can-do spirit her award-winning blog, Smitten Kitchen, is known for, here Deb presents more than 100 recipes–almost entirely new, plus a few favorites from the site–that guarantee delicious results every illustrated with hundreds of her beautiful color photographs, The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook is all about approachable, uncompromised home cooking. Here you’ll find better uses for your favorite vegetables: asparagus blanketing a pizza; ratatouille dressing up a sandwich; cauliflower masquerading as pesto. These are recipes you’ll bookmark and use so often they become your own, recipes you’ll slip to a friend who wants to impress her new in-laws, and recipes with simple ingredients that yield amazing results in a minimum amount of tells you her favorite summer cocktail; how to lose your fear of cooking for a crowd; and the essential items you need for your own kitchen. From salads and slaws that make perfect side dishes (or a full meal) to savory tarts and galettes; from Mushroom Bourguignon to Chocolate Hazelnut Crepe Cake, Deb knows just the thing for a Tuesday night, or your most special occasion.
Look for Deb Perelman’s latest cookbook, Smitten Kitchen Keepers!