Lidia’s Family Table: More Than 200 Fabulous Italian Recipes to Enjoy Every Day–with Wonderful Ideas for Variations and Improvisations: A Cookbook-Fast Shipping

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From one of America best-loved and most-admired chefs, an instructive and creative collection of over 200 recipes that bring simple, delicious Italian cooking to the family table, with imaginative ideas for variations and improvisations.

Lidia’s Family Table features hundreds of fabulous new dishes that willappeal both to Lidia’s loyal following, who have come to rely on her wonderfullydetailed recipes, and to the more adventurous cook ready to experiment.

• She welcomesus to the table with tasty bites from the sea (including home-cured tuna and mackerel),seasonal salads, and vegetable surprises (Egg-Battered Zucchini Roll-Ups, Sweet OnionGratinate).

• She reveals the secret of simple make-ahead soup bases, deliciouson their own and easy to embellish for a scrumptious soup that can make a meal.

• She opens up the wonderful world of pasta, playing with different shapes, mixingand matching, and creating sauces while the pasta boils; she teaches us to make freshegg pastas, experimenting with healthful ingredients–whole wheat, chestnut, buckwheat,and barley. And she makes us understand the subtle arts of polenta- and risotto-makingas never before.

• She shares her love of vegetables, skillet-cooking some to intensifytheir flavor, layering some with yesterday’s bread for a lasagna-like gratin, blanketinga scallop of meat with sautéed vegetables, and finishing seasonal greens with theperfect little sauce.

• She introduces us to some lesser-known cuts of meats formain courses (shoulders, butts, and tongue) and underused, delicious fish (skateand monkfish), as well as to her family’s favorite recipes for chicken and a beautifulbalsamic-glazed roast turkey.

• And she explores with us the many ways fruits andcrusts (pie, strudel, cake, and toasted bread) marry and produce delectable homeydesserts to end the meal.

Lidia’s warm presence is felt on every page of this book,explaining the whys and wherefores of what she is doing, and the brilliant photographstake us right into her home, showing her rolling out pasta with her grandchildren,bringing in the summer harvest, and sitting around the food-laden family table. Asshe makes every meal a celebration, she invites us to do the same, giving us confidenceand joy in the act of cooking.