Barefoot Contessa at Home: Everyday Recipes You'll Make Over and Over Again

I was very pleased with this cookbook. Many of Ina's recipes are not the kind of things I would make very often, but this book is different. It's still full of fancy recipes but they are simpler and more everyday in nature. Ina scores again!

If I had received this product or had any idea when I might receive it I could tell you about it. I ordered numerous items at the same time and have received and been happy with all, but do date I have no idea where this book is. This company does not seem that reliable to me.

Easy recipes. Large print/easy to read. Very enjoyable. I recommend highly. Helpful tips also.

I have three of her cookbooks, they are my mainstays probably because they don't require special ingredients. When company is coming I pull them out. The recipes in this volume are less festive and a tad more complicated than I expected. High calorie content as usual due to all the butter and cream but for special occasions, always get the applause.

If you're expecting an "everyday" cookbook, this is not the book for you. If you haven't watched Ina Garten's cooking show, you would not know her definition of "everyday" is more along the lines of "everyday gourmet" - or that she used to be a caterer, and so some of her recipes as a body of work are more in line with a fancy dinner party than anything else. I tend to look at this cookbook as my "fancy but simple" dinner/dessert book, rather than something that I would use on a daily basis. For that, I've the Women's Day Cookbook or How to Cook Everything. Also, Ms. Garten's definition of simple still assumes a level of pantry stock and/or shopping that might not be available in a non-urban area - a fault I find with a number of Food Network hosts' cookbooks. Furthermore, if you just started cooking, this may not be the book for you, as you might burn some dishes, as she does not point out that in the roast capon recipe, adjusting the temperature of the oven after twenty minutes might be a good idea. That said, the recipes are yummy, easy to follow, but I wouldn't count on this as an "everyday" sort of cookbook. Maybe "everyday I entertain".