Williams-Sonoma Easy Entertaining
Author: Williams Sonoma
Entertaining really can be easy. Whether you are hosting a dinner for a few friends or a cocktail party for a crowd, all you need is a good guide that gives you stylish, reliable recipes that don't require hours in the kitchen and simple hosting secrets that save time and eliminate last-minute stress. You'll find all that and more in Williams-Sonoma Easy Entertaining.
Ten lavishly illustrated chapters offer complete menus for the most popular kinds of entertaining occasions, from a Casual Breakfast and a Backyard Barbecue to a cozy Midweek Dinner, a Wine & Cheese Party, and a Celebratory Buffet. Each chapter includes recipes, tips, shopping notes, step-by-step style ideas, and a detailed work plan, as well as beautiful photographs illustrating inspired serving presentations. Simply put, you'll find everything you need to know to entertain with confidence and style, and it's all stunningly easy.
The more than 45 recipes offer fresh, flavorful dishes and drinks reinvented for the way real people cook today. You'll discover such appealing ideas as Creamed Broccoli Leek Soup, Roasted Halibut with Chive Butter and Caviar, and luscious Chocolate Espresso Crèmes made with just four ingredients. The menus offer tips on shortcuts and take full advantage of today's popular prepared foods, showing you how to add easy touches to make them your own. There are also reference sections packed with helpful guidelines for party planning, shopping, decorating, and organizing your time and home.
Williams-Sonoma Easy Entertaining is all about achieving one simple, irresistible goal: take the stress -- and much of the work -- out of entertaining so that you canrelax and enjoy the company of your friends and family.
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Emeril's New New Orleans
Author: Emeril Lagass
Emeril Lagasse fuses the rich traditions of Creole cookery with the best of America's regional cuisines and adds a vibrant new palette of tastes, ingredients, and styles. The heavy sauces, the long-cooked roux, and the smothered foods that were the heart of old-style New Orleans cooking have been replaced by simple fresh ingredients and easy cooking techniques with a light touch. Emeril serves up a masterpiece in his first cookbook, Emeril's New New Orleans Cooking.
Emeril offers not only hundred of easy-to-prepare recipes, but plenty of professional tips, shortcuts, and useful information about stocking your own New Orleans pantry and making your own seasonings.
Library Journal
Lagasse opened Emeril's Restaurant to raves in 1990 after several years as chef at The Commander's Palace, a New Orleans institution. His food, which he refers to as New New Orleans, or NNO, is a reinterpretation of Creole cookery, strongly influenced by Oriental, Portuguese, and Southwestern cuisines. The result is gutsy, flavorful dishes, though the juxtaposition of ingredients is sometimes startling: Crawfish Egg Rolls with Sesame Drizzle, or Spinach and Goat Cheese Salad with Andouille Dressing. There are lots of appetizing recipes here. For most collections.
BookList
One of the instant clues to nouvelle-inspired cookbooks is the length of recipe names--two lines, at least, including a lot of "withs" and "ands." Award-winning restaurateur Lagasse's first culinary offering is certainly no exception, as he blends with skill the cuisines of Portugal, the Far East, New Mexico, and Cajun-Creole areas of the U.S. There's a great reliance on hotstuffs, with liberal sprinklings of cilantro and piri piri sauce, as there is on the foundations of "Nawlins" chefery, using such ingredients as crawfish, andouille, and tasso, among others. Some of the "I gotta try" dishes include cilantro shrimp, kale and andouille soup, smoked salmon cheesecake, pine-nut crusted chicken, pork and eggplant cutlets, and white chocolate banana sesame loaf. His claim to a "new" Big Easy cooking style may not be ageless, but his innovations will be influential. For the more experienced home chef and for the library with big demand for cookbooks.
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