Synopses & Reviews
Learn to make elevated, professional-quality meals in your own
kitchen with over 100 creative, seasonal recipes from Hailee Catalano
Growing up cooking the Sunday gravy, meatballs, and pasta
alongside her Italian American grandmother, Hailee Catalano developed a
huge passion for food. This passion led her to the Culinary Institute of
America, and then to cooking in restaurants. But somewhere along the
way, Hailee started to miss the home cooking that made her fall in love
with food in the first place. Restaurants made it seem like beautifully
made food was too difficult to recreate at home.
In
By Heart, she presents over 100 restaurant-quality recipes designed to be made in your home kitchen. You'll find seasonal pastas (
Pasta alla Norcina with Roasted Squash), veggie-forward recipes designed to make the most of your CSA box (
Caponata with Dried Cherries and Green Olives), simple meat dishes (
Roast Chicken with Red Wine Vinegar and Honey) breads (
Hearty Seeded Rye Bread), butters (
Calabrian Chile Honey Butter), condiments (
Chicago-Style Fennel Giardiniera), perfect beach sandwiches (
Brie and Butter Sandwich with Shallot-y Frisée), simple sweets (
Malted Milk Butter Cookies), and so much more.
Inspired by her professional training and love of seasonal
cooking, Hailee includes details on how to keep a calm kitchen, navigate
a farmers market, make your own broths and the perfect sourdough loaf,
and plan out a Friday Night Dinner menu. Carefully crafted from the
heart, this is a book you'll return to again and again.
About the Author
Hailee Catalano is a trained chef, former restaurant cook, and
recipe developer. Now living with her partner, Chuck, and her dog, Gus,
in New Jersey, she takes inspiration from her time in restaurants, her
midwestern upbringing, her Italian American heritage, and her love of
seasonal produce to create fun and fresh recipes for home cooks.