In Easy Entertaining at Home, Sandra Lee has created the perfect party primer and resource for the modern, busy homemaking host. The recipes include a long list of margaritas, martinis, sangrias, punches, coladas, and cosmopolitans–all your favorites are here. Ingredients: 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup water 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice Ice 1 1/2 [...]
Without any formal culinary training, Julia took her passion for food and creativity and turned it into one of the Web’s most successful food blogs, and now a wonderful book. Ingredients: 6 sheets filo pastry, approximately 37x28cm 50g butter, melted For the filling 200g white crab meat 1-2 medium red chillies, [...]
Gordon Ramsay’s World Kitchen is fun and full of classic recipes from, well, around the world. Complete with helpful techniques for all of your favorites from dolmades to dumplings. Ingredients: 1 onion, peeled and quartered 3-4 cloves 1 bay leaf 250ml double cream 250ml whole milk 400g firm white fish fillets 400g smoked [...]
This cookbook is a lot of fun! Each section has a brief essay upfront. A lot of wit here–and a passion for cooking and devising tasty recipes. Each recipe has a story; here again, considerable wit. Ingredients: 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt 10 tablespoons unsalted butter, preferably a high-fat, [...]
I grew up in Canada so you would think that I would love the fall but the truth is, I really just hate it. I hate that it’s still dark when I get up and it gets dark again so early in the evening. I hate the cold that whistles through your bones when you [...]
For any single-crust pie, 8 to 10 inches in diameter. Double the recipe for a two-crust pie. Ingredients: 1⅛ cups (about 5 ounces) all-purpose flour, plus some for dusting work surface ½ tsp. salt 1 tsp. sugar 8 Tbsp. (1 stick) cold unsalted butter, cut into about 8 pieces About 3 tablespoons ice [...]