The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook

The authors of the national bestseller The Silver Palate Cookbook now bring their acclaimed gourmet style to graceful entertaining at home. In The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook, Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins make the entire year a celebration of good food, good friends, and good times, as they offer menus, suggestions, and strategies. More than 450 new recipes have been developed especially for this collection.All add to the joyfulness of the rapidly growing Silver Palate legend: there are glorious soups, savory entrees, vegetables, salads, cheese, souffles, and showstopping, just-right desserts.

As warmly inviting as the most rousing party, the pages of The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook abound with winsome line illustrations, pertinent quotations, unusual ideas--and with dishes including Cajun Chicken Morsels, Duck and Dandelion Green Salad, Pesto Fondue, Tex-Mex Stuffed Peppers, and more. The excitement begins in spring and continues right through to winter, with a lavish Christmas Goose accompanied by Scalloped Oysters and Baked Kumquats. The good times are here, with the compliments of The Silver Palate.

From the authors of The Silver Palate Cookbook (2.2 million copies in print), here is The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook. This time the authors focus on entertaining company and making any occasion special with the right ingredients and imagination.

With the same spirit and culinary daring that catapulted the first Silver Palate Cookbook into over 700,000 homes, the Good Times Cookbook brings to each season a sense of the memorable. Dinner a deux becomes a fireside clambake. Spring is heralded with early chEvres, curry bread, glasses of chablis. Summer sizzles with swordfish barbecue, while autumn refreshes with wild mushroom forays and the crunch of favorite nuts. And to round out the year, thereís the splendid formality of Broiled Oysters with Arugula PurEe and an elegant Dacquoise.

Throughout, Sheila Lukinsís charming illustrations highlight the more than 450 recipes, menus, and unexpected pairings. Sidebars and marginalia resolve the dilemmas of modern entertainingówhether Beaujolais is lusty enough for lamb, which cheeses start a meal and which end it with a flourish, how to make the presentation of food as lush as the taste. Main Selection of the Quality Paperback Book and Book-of-the-Month Cooking and Crafts Clubs; Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service, and ABA Basic Booklist. Winner of a Duncan Hines IACP Cookbook Award. Over 1.3 million copies in print.

The authors of the national bestseller The Silver Palate Cookbook now bring their acclaimed gourmet style to graceful entertaining at home. In The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook, Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins make the entire year a celebration of good food, good friends, and good times, as they offer menus, suggestions, and strategies. More than 450 new recipes have been developed especially for this collection.All add to the joyfulness of the rapidly growing Silver Palate legend: there are glorious soups, savory entrees, vegetables, salads, cheese, souffles, and showstopping, just-right desserts.

As warmly inviting as the most rousing party, the pages of The Silver Palate Cookbook abound with winsome line illustrations, pertinent quotations, unusual ideas-and with dishes including Cajun Chicken Morsels, Duck and Dandelion Green Salad, Pesto Fondue, Tex-Mex Stuffed Peppers, more. The excitement begins in spring and continues right through to winter, with a lavish Christmas Goose accompanied by Scalloped Oysters and Baked Kumquats. The good times are here, with the compliments of The Silver Palate.

GOOD TIMES, ALL THE TIME

Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins, the team who made The Silver Palate Cookbook a contemporary classic, now present an all-new collection of 450 spectacular recipes for cooking and entertaining during every season of the year. Complete with suggested menus for informal and elegant occasions, crammed with tips on planning and technique, and featuring special sections on wine and cheese, The Silver Plate Good Times Cookbook brings irresistible fare and irresistible charm to every occasion.

Julee Rosso Miller co-authored the Silver Palate in 1979, and wrote The Silver Palate Cookbookin 1982, followed by The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbookand The New Basics Cookbook. She also wrote Great Good Foodand Fresh Start, and with her husband runs the Wickwood Inn in Saugatuck, Michigan.Sheila Lukins is one of America's best-known and best-loved food writers. She was cofounder of The Silver Palate take-out shop, which inspired a series of cookbooks and food products that changed the way we eat. She is the food editor of Parademagazine and lives in New York City.

A Toast to the Good Times

THE SPLURGE OF SPRING

Fresh Starts

Spring Fever

On the grapevine

Rainy Days and Sundays

Easter

A Tuscany Retreat

Daffodil Weekend

Spring Chickens

Derby Weekend

Mothers Day

Tea for Two

Primavera Wedding

EASY LIVING

Porch Brunches

Pomp and Circumstance

Fireworks on the Fourth

Summer When It Sizzles

Midsummers Vegetables

Gone Fishing

Grill Crazy

Ice Cream Socials

Siestas, Sunsets, and Stargazing

AUTUMN HUES

Opening Night Openers

Country Fare

Rising to the Top

Pastas with Pedigrees

The Autumn Hunt

Americans in Paris

Sassy Ginger Salute

Apples and Pears

America Gives Thanks

Rave Reviews

WINTER WONDERLAND

The Dinner Party

Dinner at Eight

Dressed to the Nines

Silver Bells

Nutcracker Sweet Open House

Christmas Eve

Christmas Morning Breakfast

Christmas Day Dinner

New Years Eve

New Years Day

Fireside Foods

Ski Weekends

Winter Escapes

Valentines Day

Basics

Index