Fix-It and Forget-It 5-Ingredient Favorites: Comforting Slow Cooker Recipes
Author: Phyllis Pellman Good
So who has time to prepare food these days? We time-starved cooks need recipes that are guaranteed to be:
-Quick to fix
-Easy for anyone to make, whether you're a cook or not
-Delicious and satisfying
The solution? Fix-It and Forget-It 5-Ingredient Favorites - the new member in the multi-million copy Fix-It and Forget-It cookbook series!
This smart, new cookbook offers convenience and comfort to anyone faced with a too-full life and hungry people to feed.
Gather five or fewer readily available ingredients + your slow cooker + Fix-It and Forget-It 5-Ingredient Favorites - and you can have:
- Apricot Chicken
- Lazy Lasagna
- Sweet and Savory Brisket
- Bacon Feta-Stuffed Chicken
- Tortellini with Broccoli
- Upside-Down Chocolate Pudding Cake
- Brownies with Nuts
Fix-It and Forget-It 5-Ingredient Favorites, with its more than 700 recipes, can be your new faithful companion. Turn to it for Main Dishes, Meats and Pastas, Vegetables, Soups, Breads, Breakfasts and Brunches, Desserts, Appetizers, Snacks, and Beverages.
Look this: Joy of Cooking or Vegetarian Planet
Biba's Taste of Italy: Recipes from the Homes, Trattorie and Restaurants of Emilia-Romagna
Author: Biba Caggiano
"There has not been one single day since I have left Bologna in 1960 that I have not yearned for and lusted after the food of Emilia-Romagna. That food is part of my heritage and culture. After twenty-five years of cooking professionally, I can truly say that the food of my region has been a constant source of inspiration in all I have done."
Join author, cooking show host, and restaurateur Biba Caggiano on her journey back to her beloved region in Biba's Taste of Italy.Located in one of Italy's most prosperous northern regions, Emilia-Romagna has given the world a cuisine that is a luscious as it is refined: succulent seafood dishes from the Adriatic waters; hearty, long-simmered ragÙs; and rich pasta shaped into tortellini, anolini, and lasagna. With Biba, dicover the place that's home to so much of what we've come to love in Italian food: prosciutto di Parma, Modena's aged balsamic vinegar, mortadella, and perhaps the world's greatest cheese, Parmigiano-Reggiano.
Featuring more than 250 recipes, from antipasti to desserts, Biba introduces the vibrant food of her childhood: homestyle dishes and authentic recipes from humble trattorie and family-run restaurants. You'll learn how to make Tagliatelle with Bolognese RagÙ; Eggplant Parmigiano that combines the salty-sweet flavors of Parma ham and Bolognese sausage; earthy, bread-thickened soups; Potato and Ricotta Gnocchi; and irresistible seafood risotto. Of course, the symbol Emilia-Romagna cooking -- stuffed pasta -- is here in all its glory with recipes for Ricotta and Goat Cheese Tortellini, Butternut Squash Tortellini, and Anolini in Broth, and so many more.
Fromthe region's coastal towns and villages, Biba shares the simply prepared seafood dishes of the local trattoric -- Clams with Garlic and Cile Pepper and Baked Halibut with Potatoes, plus the simple tastes of grilling shellfish with olive oil, lemon juice, and herbs. In the same rustic spirit, you will also find Roasted Stuffed Breast of Veal, Braised Veal Shanks, and succulent Breaded Lamb Chops.
Biba's frequent family visits to Bologna evoke childhood memories of growing up in this food-lover's paradise, and reaffirms that the kitchen remains the heart and soul of Italian homes.
Bib's Taste of Italy is more than a collection of recipes. It is also a travel guide with all the names and addresses of her favorite trattorie and restaurants where her favorite dishes can be found.
Join Biba as she returns to Emilia-Romagna in Biba's Taste of Italy. It's a trip you will take again and again in your own kitchen.
Michele Scicolone
Reading Biba's Taste of Italy made me want to jump on a motorbike and explore Emilia-Romagna with Biba. Everything sounds so appealing. I want to follow her everywhere and shop in the markets, meet the cooks, and taste the food.
Lidia Bastianich
There is no one who can capture the food and soul of Emilia-Romagna like my dear friend, Biba Caggiano. Some of Italy's best fresh pasta hails from this region and Biba shares these and other wonderful recipes in her newe cookbook, Biba's Taste of Italy. If you love Italy and Italian food, this is a must-have cookbook.
Publishers Weekly
In her latest enticing collection of recipes (after Trattoria Cooking and Italy al Dente), the chef-owner of Biba restaurant in Sacramento returns to her hometown, Bologna, and its surrounding countryside. The region, Emilia-Romagna, is blessed with such delectables as prosciutto di Parma, Parmigiano-Reggiano and balsamic vinegar, which its culinary tradition prominently features. Those who can never own too many Italian cookbooks will welcome the familiar fare, including Prosciutto with Marinated Baby Artichokes in Balsamic Vinegar, a simple Mussel Salad, Caggiano and Butternut Squash Tortelli. Chatty headnotes to most recipes tell where Biba discovered them and what drew her to each one, such as the simplicity of Grilled Skewers of Calamari and Shrimp from Rimini and her brother's favorite, Veal Stew with White Wine and Peas. She concludes with such sweets as Almond Chocolate Cake from a trattoria in Vignola and Mascarpone-Zabaglione Mousse from another in Frassinara. These authentic recipes demonstrate why Italian food remains one of the world's most irresistible cuisines. Agents, Maureen and Eric Lasher. (On-sale date: Mar. 26) Forecast: Caggiano has a large, dedicated following who are attracted to her motherly warmth as much as they are to her food. She will promote her new book with an appearance on CBS's Early Show the same day the book goes on sale and subsequently on Martha Stewart Living and PBS's Home Cooking, followed by a four-city tour. As before, stores should anticipate brisk sales. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
Library Journal
Forget Tuscany. Emilia-Romagna is sure to be the next regional Italian superstar cuisine. Television and restaurant chef Caggiano (Italy Al Dente) showcases the foods of her native Northern Italy in a parade of mouthwatering ingredients like balsamic vinegar and Parmesan-Reggiano cheese and comforting dishes like Tagliatelle with Ragu. The recipes, while precise, don't intimidate; cooks looking for an in-depth treatment won't be disappointed, while casual readers will enjoy the recipe head notes and supplemental text that convey Caggiano's connection to her food, family, and friends. Slightly less detailed than Lynne Rossetto Kasper's award-winning The Splendid Table: Recipes from Emilia-Romagna, the Heartland of Northern Italian Food (Morrow, 1992), this is still highly recommended for libraries that can afford both. Devon Thomas, Hass Assocs., Ann Arbor, MI Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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