This is by far my favorite cookbook. The pages are stuck together I use it so much. Curried coucous? Yes, please!

copied "roasted vegetable torte" & "croissant bread pudding"

I feel poor.

I have a few confessions to make. I love cooking. I love baking. I love discovering new recipes. I love cookbooks. Perhaps the most surprising confession? I rarely will buy a cookbook.

I borrow many (many) cookbooks from the library, finding a recipe here, a recipe there. However, very few cookbooks engage me enough to want to own the book forever and try the majority of recipes between its covers.

Family, friends and colleagues regularly share recipes with me, which I love. Sometimes I use good old Google to locate a recipe, especially if I’m trying to finish up something or other that is lingering in my pantry. There is an exception to my cookbook buying “rule”, well, a couple really. One exception is the cookbooks of Ina “The Barefoot Contessa” Garten.

Read the rest of my review and see which of Ina's recipes is a "must try" (there are so many!!) on my Bake the Cake blog. https://bakethecakedotblog.wordpress....

about what I expected with a few good keeper type recipes...many old traditional ones that I have used in the past from her or others.

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This cookbook by Ina Garten was great. I got quite a few great recipes. I will be making some great food for my boyfriend bryann and I

Great recipes, easy to follow instructions - everything she makes is incredible!!

As with all of the Ina Garten recipes I've encountered to date, which is quite a few, these are all very straightforward, emphasize fresh foods, and are extremely yummy. After signing this out from my public library, I promptly tabbed a bunch of pages and made six or seven of the recipes. Each was great, and I decided it was officially a "keeper." That is not to say that I wouldn't be returning the library copy; instead, I purchased my own copy just recently.

I haven't made anything out of this cookbook yet, but I like her style and I'm looking forward to trying some. I thought it was a well put together cookbook and the recipes look simple but yummy. 4/5 stars.

While I love Ina you can definitely tell this is her first cookbook. The typeset and font are not as friendly as most of her other cookbooks and there aren't quite as many fabulous pictures of the food.

Lots of recipes here for cooking pretty basic things. But I am rather excited to try her tea sandwich recipes!

ok yes i'm counting this in my reading! i'm behind in my reading challenge and i technically read this thing cover to cover!
i learned so much--how to make a tasteful vegetable plate, how Sunday lunch is a wonderful opportunity to entertain, how using both oil and butter to cook is the way to go. thank you ina, you culinary goddess who keeps reminding readers that they can get speciality items by "mail order" in her pre-Internet world and had the confidence to name drop Steven Spielberg and Lauren Bacall.
also i loved how much we learned about jeffrey with regards to brownies (he ate all of her test brownies, and she courted him with homemade brownies in college). i just want to throw a dinner party now!! i need an opportunity to make an eggplant spread or a perfect roast chicken!!