Everyday Pasta

Everyday Pasta
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not as good as her last one

Great, Practical Cookbook

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Love, love, LOVE!

Everyday Pasta
Giada De Laurentiis
Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0307346587
Release Date: 2007-04-03

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Food Network favorite Giada De Laurentiis returns with another beautiful cookbook, this time focused on pasta. In Everyday Pasta you'll find more than a hundred new recipes for pasta dishes (as well as for sauces, salads, and sides) that are easy to prepare and delicious, whether you are looking for something light and delicate, or rich and hearty. We've included a recipe for "Rigatoni with Sausage, Peppers, and Onions" below to tempt you. --Daphne Durham

Everyday Pasta Recipe Preview

Rigatoni with Sausage, Peppers, and Onions

4 to 6 servings
Stroll through any Italian American street fair and you'll smell this classic combo. But while sausage and peppers are great in a sandwich, I think they're even better tossed with rigatoni. Using turkey sausages instead of the more traditional pork also makes it a little lighter.

1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1 pound sweet Italian turkey sausages
2 red bell peppers, cored, seeded, and sliced
2 yellow onions, sliced
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
4 garlic cloves, chopped
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1/2 cup chopped fresh basil
2 tablespoons tomato paste
1 cup Marsala wine
1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes, with juice
1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes (optional)
1 pound rigatoni pasta
Freshly grated Parmesan cheese, for garnish

Heat the oil in a large, heavy skillet over medium heat. Add the sausages and cook until brown on all sides, 7 to 10 minutes. Remove the sausages from the pan.

Keeping the pan over medium heat, add the bell peppers, onions, salt, and pepper and cook until golden, 5 minutes. Add the garlic, oregano, and basil and cook for 2 minutes. Add the tomato paste and stir until incorporated, then add the Marsala, tomatoes with their juice, and red pepper flakes, if using. Stir to combine, scraping the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon to release all the brown bits. Bring to a simmer.

Cut the sausages into 4 to 6 pieces each. Return the sausages to the pan. Simmer uncovered until the sauce has thickened, about 20 minutes.

While the sauce simmers, bring a large pot of salted water to a boil over high heat. Add the pasta and cook until tender but still firm to the bite, stirring occasionally, 8 to 10 minutes. Drain the pasta and add to the thickened sauce; toss to combine. Spoon into individual bowls and sprinkle each serving with Parmesan cheese.

Book Description

For New York Times bestselling author Giada De Laurentiis, pasta has always been one of the great pleasures of the table: it’s healthy and delicious; it can be light and delicate or rich and hearty; it’s readily available and easy to prepare--everything you want in a meal. And nothing satisfies a craving for Italian food quite like it! In Everyday Pasta, Giada invites you to share her love of this versatile staple with more than a hundred brand-new recipes for pasta dishes, as well as for complementary sauces, salads, and sides tempting enough to bring the whole family to the dinner table.

Without forgetting about the classics we all love, Giada makes the most of the many varieties of pasta available to create recipes that combine familiar flavors in exciting new ways.

Although most of these dishes are all-in-one meals in themselves, Giada also supplies recipes for her favorite appetizers, side dishes, and salads to round them out.

Whether you’re looking for a simple summer supper that makes the most of seasonal vegetables or seeking comfort in a pasta bowl on a cold winter’s night, Everyday Pasta offers just the thing.

• Tuna, Green Bean, and Orzo Salad
• Crab Salad Napoleans with Fresh Pasta
• Roman-Style Fettuccini with Chicken
• Baked Pastina Casserole
• Tagliatelle with Short Ribs Ragou
• Spaghetti with Eggplant, Butternut Squash, and Shrimp

Easy to prepare and endlessly versatile, pasta makes a wonderful quick supper when time is short but easily becomes an elegant meal when the occasion requires. In Everyday Pasta, Giada shows you how, with a few basic ingredients from the fridge and the pantry, you’re never more than minutes away from a delicious pasta dinner.

Customer Reviews:

not as good as her last one.......2007-10-02

I am not enjoying this book as much as the last one. Was hoping for more beef recipies
beautifully written and photographed though

Great, Practical Cookbook.......2007-09-29

This cookbook is great for people who want practical (yet slightly sophisticated), easy-to-cook, and tasty meals that will appeal to the entire family. The book is nicely illustrated, with easy-to-follow directions.

great stuff.......2007-09-27

Giada makes cooking look easy this book has some great pasta's and one dish dinners and am looking forward to the next one I bought. Thanks Giada

Married to an Italian woman.......2007-09-26

....and she loves this book. She has prepared numerous dishes and they are all fabulous. It makes it very difficult when you are on a diet!!! If I ever decide to make a switch (after 23 years of marriage), look out Giada!!!!

Love, love, LOVE!.......2007-09-20

Giada's recipes are so full of flavor! What's surprising is how simple some of the ingredients are! I have ALL of Giada's cookbooks! My husband loves it, too! You won't be disappointed!

Everyday Italian: 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes

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Excellent
EXCELLENT
Cook'in Italian
Bad recipe book
You can't eat enough Italian

Everyday Italian: 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes
Giada De Laurentiis
Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1400052580
Release Date: 2005-02-22

Book Description

In her hit Food Network show Everyday Italian, Giada De Laurentiis shows you how to cook delicious, beautiful food in a flash. And here, in her long-awaited first book, she does the same—helps you put a fabulous dinner on the table tonight, for friends or just for the kids, with a minimum of fuss and a maximum of flavor. She makes it all look easy, because it is.

Everyday Italian is true to its title: the fresh, simple recipes are incredibly quick and accessible, and also utterly mouth-watering—perfect for everyday cooking. And the book is focused on the real-life considerations of what you actually have in your refrigerator and pantry (no mail-order ingredients here) and what you’re in the mood for—whether a simply sauced pasta or a hearty family-friendly roast, these great recipes cover every contingency. So, for example, you’ll find dishes that you can make solely from pantry ingredients, or those that transform lowly leftovers into exquisite entrées (including brilliant ideas for leftover pasta), and those that satisfy your yearning to have something sweet baking in the oven. There are 7 ways to make red sauce more interesting, 6 different preparations of the classic cutlet, 5 perfect pestos, 4 creative uses for prosciutto, 3 variations on basic polenta, 2 great steaks, and 1 sublime chocolate tiramisù—plus 100 other recipes that turn everyday ingredients into speedy but special dinners.

What’s more, Everyday Italian is organized according to what type of food you want tonight—whether a soul-warming stew for Sunday supper, a quick sauté for a weeknight, or a baked pasta for potluck. These categories will help you figure out what to cook in an instant, with such choices as fresh-from-the-pantry appetizers, sauceless pastas, everyday roasts, and stuffed vegetables—whatever you’re in the mood for, you’ll be able to find a simple, delicious recipe for it here. That’s the beauty of Italian home cooking, and that’s what Giada De Laurentiis offers here—the essential recipes to make a great Italian dinner. Tonight.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent .......2007-10-01

This book is Excellent - Simple & Has Plenty to choose from & if you like Italian food this book makes it simpler. Great, Simple, Tasty receipes.

EXCELLENT.......2007-09-13

This book is easy to follow and all the recipes I've tried so far have been excellent. I highly recommend this book.

Cook'in Italian.......2007-09-02

The reviews of this book varied from praise of the recipes to complaints about Giada's cleavage. If you can bring yourself to read the recipes you will find it a worthwhile purchase.

Bad recipe book.......2007-08-26

too many pictures of GIADA. She must be in love with herself!@!!!!!
too few pictures of the recipes.
too few recipes.
lame pictures on lemons and basil.
structure of table of content/index poor.
Save your money, GO TO AN Italian restaurant, at least you can get 1 or 2 good entres.

You can't eat enough Italian.......2007-08-25

This book had very easy to follow instructions. The results were tasty and disappeared fast. It was written as if Giada was recounting the recipes herself as if you were watching her on television.

The Complete Italian Vegetarian Cookbook: 350 Essential Recipes for Inspired Everyday Eating

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A nice simple cook book
Best cookbook!
family cook
Yummy for Vegetarians!
Wonderful!

The Complete Italian Vegetarian Cookbook: 350 Essential Recipes for Inspired Everyday Eating
Jack Bishop
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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This uniquely accessible collection draws together the best vegetarian recipes of Italy-350 in all. 'Pasta and pizza may be Italy's most eye-catching exports, but it is the country's varied and sensible use of vegetables that provides the best inspiration for American cooks,' writes Jack Bishop. 'Asparagus spears coated with a little olive oil and roasted to intensify their flavor; thick slices of country bread grilled over an open fire and topped with diced tomatoes and shredded basil from the garden; or a fragrant stew with fennel and peas-Italians enjoy these dishes because of what they do contain, not what they don't.' Many of the recipes were gathered by Bishop during extensive travels throughout Italy. Some are family favorites, adapted from those of his Italian grandmother. All deliver perfect results with a minimum of effort. Serving suggestions for each recipe make planning vegetarian meals easy.

Customer Reviews:

A nice simple cook book.......2007-08-23

I've cooked five or six recipes out of the book and found them to be as advertised, simple but with delicious results.

Best cookbook!.......2007-03-08

I recently moved to Italy and decided to get this book to bring with me so as not to get stuck in a vegetarian food rut and also to be able to eat good Italian food without always having to go out to a restaurant. I have made something different almost everynight for a month so far. Not one recipe has disappointed me. They are all very easy to follow and super tasty. My boyfriend is loveing my new found love of cooking, and especially la cucina italiana! I'd also like to add that I used to be vegan so I always look at recipes from an "Is it possible to make this vegan?" standpoint. MANY MANY of these are already vegan on their own and even more of them are if you have the right soy products and a little imagination so I reccomend this book to vegans as well.

family cook.......2007-02-09

We have used many recipes out of this book and have not found a bad one. Very very tasty. My eldest daughter also bought one after trying some of the recipes while visiting us over the holidays.I recommend it to every one.

Yummy for Vegetarians!.......2007-01-10

Love this book! Recipes are simple and delicious. I gave this to my daughter for Christmas, and she is loving it! I would love a photo on every recipe for the next book to entice us to try it!

Wonderful!.......2006-07-05

The recipes in this cookbook are easy, delicious and wonderful! I use this cookbook more than I use any other book and this is the only one that stays on my counter year round. Try it and you will just love it!

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Great for traveling
Gerard F.
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Absolutely out of date Almost useless.

Easy Italian Phrase Book: 770 Basic Phrases for Everyday Use (Dover Easy Phrase Books)
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Great for traveling.......2007-07-28

This book is great if you are traveling to Italy and don't have time to take a class to learn the language.

Gerard F........2006-03-31

This book is worthless, even for $2. Very outdated (phrases about telegrams). I returned it. Buy Rick Steve's Italian Phrases instead. It is more compact and current (asks how to send an e-mail, not telegram).

Pretty bare bones phrase book.......2006-03-23

This was the cheapest phrase book that I saw offered on Amazon.com and, as trite as it is, you get what you pay for. If you are looking for the most basic of interactions with Italian speakers and are only planning on staying in tourist hotels and shopping in tourist markets, then this might suffice. However, if you are planning to interact with native Italian speakers in a less superficial way, or if you want to be able to express yourself with somewhat more sophistication, I would recommend another phrase book.

Easy equals Beginner.......2006-03-02

This book is too large to fit in your pocket. It has normal size type but lots of space between the entries. Check out other options and you will find a smaller, more useful reference.

Absolutely out of date Almost useless........2001-03-16

I had to look at the publication of this book. I thought it might be 1930. The section on Customs is really foolish. No one arriving in Italy needs to learn those foolish sentences about "This is for my personal use", "where are customs?" The train section is useless. Where is the smoking car? You select the type of car you want WHEN YOU BUY YOU TICKET. So old fashion! It is not useful for Italian of today.!

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Hoping to be swept away...
The Literary Fantastic According to the Master Himself

Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday
Italo Calvino
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Release Date: 1997-10-28

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The brilliant Italian writer Italo Calvino (1923-1985) compiled Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday, a historical overview of great fantastic literature of the 19th century. Many of his 26 selections are from well-known authors (Sir Walter Scott, Honoré de Balzac, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Ivan Turgenev, Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and H.G. Wells), but Calvino largely avoided their best-known stories; the only inclusions likely to be familiar to many Americans are Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," and H.G. Wells's "The Country of the Blind." The remaining contributors range from moderately well-known to obscure. So the reader who purchases Fantastic Tales gains not only an intelligently annotated anthology of superb fiction, but, in one pleasant sense, a collection of mostly new stories.

Interestingly, some of the finest stories are by authors least known in America. Théophile Gautier's beautifully written, wrenchingly ironic "The Beautiful Vampire" establishes the traditions for romantic vampire fiction. Mérimée's "The Venus of Ille," a tale of culture clashes (Parisian and rural, ancient classical, and contemporary Christian), is sharp, well-written, and uncommonly horrific. With the gorgeous "A Lasting Love," the sole woman contributor, Vernon Lee, paints the most vivid portrait of obsessive, transcendent, destructive love.

Caveat: Calvino's introductions sometimes reveal more of the plot than readers will like. --Cynthia Ward

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Compiled by Italo Calvino, one of the essential writers of the twentieth century (and editor of the best-selling Italian Folktales), Fantastic Tales is a rich and wide-ranging collection of twenty-six classic, uncanny tales from the nineteenth century written by an intriguing panoply of European and American authors. Master storyteller himself, Calvino has contributed an informative introduction to the collection, and an engaging précis to each story.

As Calvino writes in Fantastic Tales, which traces the genre from its roots in German Romanticism to the ghost stories of Henry James: "The fantastic tale is one of the most characteristic products of nineteenth-century narrative. For us, it is also one of the most significant. . . . As it relates to our sensibility today, the supernatural element at the heart of these stories always appears freighted with meaning, like the revolt of the unconscious, the repressed, the forgotten. . . . In this we see the modern dimension of the fantastic, the reason for its triumphant resurgence in our times."

Fantastic Tales is a fantastically canonical anthology assembled by an editor who, in the words of Salman Rushdie, "possesses the power of seeing into the deepest recesses of human minds and then bringing their dreams back to life. "

Italo Calvino's works include The Road to San Giovanni, Numbers in the Dark, Six Memos for the Next Millennium, The Baron in the Trees, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, Invisible Cities, and Mr. Palomar. Calvino died in 1985.

Customer Reviews:

Hoping to be swept away..........2001-07-13

I was instead disappointed. I enjoyed Italo's Italian Folktakes so much that I thought this would be another endless read. Instead, I found it dry and methodical. While some of the stories were intriguing, the majority were immature works created by talented authors. Meaning, many of the stories just didn't have the direction, plot, or moral I expect from a "fantastic tale."

The Literary Fantastic According to the Master Himself.......2000-06-29

The stories collected in this volume span through some several hundred years and many languages. The authors represented wrote not only in the genre of the fantastic, they are recognized masters. But here we find their finest, eeriest, most bizarre and phantasmagoric tales. Reading through the book provides a real sense of the development of the ghost story and the fantasy through the years.

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Fifty fabulous sauces for any kind of noodle from fettucine to rigatoni -- simple and fast to prepare and yet unbelievably Italian. Includes product know-how on noodles and Italian cheeses and instructions on how to cook noodles perfectly "al dente, " and lists eight basic sauces and oils to have in the pantry.

Dirty Italian: Everyday Slang from "What's Up?" to "F*ck Off!"

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Dirty Italian: Everyday Slang from "What's Up?" to "F*ck Off!"
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Everyday Italian
Rodale Press
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Conversational Italian: A Complete Course in Everyday Italian (Living Language Series)

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#1 Conversational Italian Book

Conversational Italian: A Complete Course in Everyday Italian (Living Language Series)
Genevieve A. Martin , and Mario Ciatti
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#1 Conversational Italian Book.......2000-05-19

This book is for a person who needs to know how to communicate in Italy in a short period of time. I found this paperback easy to carry and easy to understand. It contains everything you need to: introduce yourself, others and being polite. What you need to order in a resturant and how to get there. Important things you need to ask people when your in Italy. The difference between words when speaking to woman and men. The alphabet. The thing I liked the best is there are many phrases to get you through your vacation with ease and feel like your not a tourist. I recommend this book above others like Berlitz and Barons because it has everything you need and it's easy.

Italian for Beginners (Everyday Handbook)

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