Ciao Italia Slow and Easy: Casseroles, Braises, Lasagne, and Stews from an Italian Kitchen
May 26, 2011 by admin
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Ciao Italia Slοw аnd Easy: Casseroles, Braises, Lasagne, аnd Stews frοm аn Italian Kitchen
Whаt сουld bе welcoming іn уουr kitchen thаn a bіg warm pan full οf lasagna, a pot οf braised short ribs οr a casserole dish holding fragrant mussels, tomatoes аnd herbs? Whеn уου thіnk οf comfort food, thе first cuisines thаt comes tο mind іѕ Italian.аnd nobody knows thаt better thаn Mary Ann Esposito, host οf thе longest-running television cooking ѕhοw іn thе U.S., Ciao Italia. In Ciao Italia Slοw аnd Easy, Mary Ann tells υѕ hοw tο ѕlοw down, take іt easy аnd fill thе kitchen w
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Wonderful Recipes Using Simple Ingredients,
I just returned from a vacation in Italy. This book so reminds me of my trip! I really like that Mary Ann uses simple, fresh, every day meats, vegetables, spices, and other ingredients in her recipes, just like most Italians I remember doing. I really wanted to replicate some of the recipes I tasted in Italy, but didn’t want a cookbook that called for items that I can’t find in my local grocery store. This book is perfect for me.
Most of the recipes are suited perfectly to family style dining, but are tasty enough to serve company. The “do ahead” features of the recipes make the dishes suited perfectly for today’s life style. I am know this cookbook is going to be one of my favorites.
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|Mary Ann Esposito = Simple, Authentic, Italian Comfort Food,
This is not the first Mary Ann Esposito cookbook I’ve owned, so I might be a little biased, but this is a great collection for the holiday season. All kinds of slow cooked, authentic Italian classics. You can put these things together and then set it/forget it. Come back hours later and you got yourself a casserole or a lasagne. No fuss, no muss. And the best part is, at no point is there any suggestion to use Ritz crackers in any recipe, if you know what I mean.
Go get this book. Seriously. Go get it.
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|Few pictures, pages discolored, print hard to read.,
The premise of this cookbook is slow and easy. The one recipe that I was really looking forward to was true home-made Italian lasagna and the only recipe in this cookbook was for an artichoke lasagna (no meat) made with no-boil lasagne sheets either baked in the oven for 50 minutes or on the stovetop in a skillet for 25 minutes.
There was quite an unusual Timballo recipe that used thin-sliced wheat bread and no eggs. I always thought Timballo was a dish made of pasta or rice bound with eggs and cheese with seasonings. This was not that type of dish. This version was not that bad but just not what you’d expect from a cookbook claiming to be from an Italian kitchen.
There are 4-5 pictures, none particularly appetizing, the pages are an off-yellow color and the print seems like a dark red so some people might have trouble with reading it clearly. If you want a casserole cookbook take a look at Bake until Bubbly: The Ultimate Casserole Cookbook instead.
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