Barefoot Contessa Family Style: Easy Ideas and Recipes That Make Everyone Feel Like Family

Back with her most tempting recipes to date, Ina Garten—who revealed her knack for easy entertaining in the best-selling Barefoot Contessa Cookbook and Barefoot Contessa Parties!—offers a selection of her most cherished meals for weekday cooking. Sharing our lives and meals with the people we love is too important to be reserved for special occasions, as Ina emphasizes in Barefoot Contessa Family Style. Fortunately, sharing is simple when you know how to prepare beautiful meals with little effort.

Serving cuisine that is both excellent and unpretentious is, in Ina's opinion, the finest way to make people feel comfortable and at home. She has included her favorite recipes for her friends and family in her new book, including Linguine with Shrimp Scampi, Parmesan Roasted Asparagus, and East Hampton Clam Chowder. It's the type of readily available, fresh cuisine that should be shared around the table in large bowls or platters along with hearty laughs and conversation.

Classic recipes are even better than you remember when prepared by Ina: Her Oven-Fried Chicken is crispy without being too fatty, her Deep-Dish Apple Pie strikes the ideal balance between fruit and spice, and her arugula salad bursts with lemon and Parmesan flavors. In addition, Barefoot Contessa Family Style offers mouthwatering dishes like Tequila Lime Chicken, Lobster Cobb Salad, and Saffron Risotto with Butternut Squash that are both memorable and unique.

Barefoot Contessa Family Style is the indispensable guide to the joy of everyday entertaining, complete with luscious photographs of Ina cooking and serving food in her stunning Hamptons home, menu ideas, and helpful advice on what to do in the event of a kitchen catastrophe.