Synopses & Reviews
Dining at home offers the timeless pleasures of great food and good company. Yet knowing how to make simple, stylish meals that are also fun to prepare is a challenge for anyone with a busy schedule. In Come for Dinner, former Waldorf-Astoria chef Leslie Revsin presents some of her most treasured recipes150 dishes with the warmth of a casual supper and the elegance of a special-occasion dinner. In page after page of enticing hors doeuvres, delicious salads, satisfying main courses, and eye-catching desserts, she shows how to capture the comfortable, festive flair of entertaining friends, family, and lovers of good food.
Brimming with recipes that are both deliciously familiar and sparkling with imagination, Come for Dinner shows how to make mouthwatering dishes for every palate, including Thai-Style Halibut with Lime, Scallions, and Crushed Chiles; Browned Asparagus in Buttery Lemon Sauce; Mexican Tortilla Soup; and Feta Cheese with Tahini and Walnuts. Recipes for Caesar Salad with Sun-Dried Tomatoes, Filet Mignons with Gorgonzola-Porcini Butter, Mini Meat Loaves, and Baked Acorn Squash with Rosemary-Garlic Butter illustrate the authors unique touch with traditional favorites. Luscious creations such as Little Chocolate Spice Cakes with Strawberries and Warm Mocha Sauce and Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies with Macadamia Nuts show how to bring a sumptuous meal to a memorable end.
Helpful preparation tips (like how to dice onions and shallots, pit olives, make garlic paste, and store ginger) and "do-ahead options" for saving time make preparing both casual and formal meals entirely feasible, whatever your schedule. As a bonus, the book also includes two large sections of varied menu suggestions, with practical tips on everyday entertaining. With sixteen pages of exquisite full-color photographs to inspire any home cook and delicious, heartwarming recipes on every page, Leslie Revsins Come for Dinner celebrates her time-tested, simple rule for culinary success: "Truly good food can only be made with love."
Review
A ground-breaking woman chef (she was the first hired by the Waldorf-Astoria), Leslie Revsin reveals her secrets for entertaining at home with
Come for Dinner: Memorable Meals to Share with Friends, with photographs by Christopher Hirsheimer. (
Metropolitan Home, November 2003)
You should be so lucky that a chef of Leslie Revsin's caliber would ask you to COME FOR DINNER. If you took her up on the offer, you'd find yourself partaking of some of the 150 recipes she shares in this book-a collection of stylish dishes that combine comfort food sensibility with plenty of contemporary sizzle. It's the kind of food you get when someone with Revsin's background and inventive cooking skills (the first woman chef hired at the Waldorf-Astoria, she's now an ace food writer) tackles what is nominally meant to be home cooking, If you run a casual dining restaurant you'll find plenty of items you'll want to plug into your menu the next time it's due for an upgrade. Or sooner. (Restaurant Hospitality, December 2003)
Why eat alone when you can invite friends? That's Leslie Revsin's message in Come for Dinner. With dozens of plan-ahead tips and a whole section of do-ahead dinners, she strips the pressure from cooking for guests. Recipes emphasize ease but never skimp on flavor: It's almost scandalous that a dish as uncomplicated as Vegetables with Ginger Butter should taste so good, And Revsin's Orzo with Roasted Tomatoes & Hot Sausage was quite possibly the tastiest dish I've made this year. (Fine Cooking, January 2004)
Synopsis
Leslie Revsin has created the perfect warm and inviting book for home entertaining: delightful usable recipes paired with enticing menu suggestions and warm, inviting copy, plus 16 pages of stunning color photographs.
Synopsis
Contemporary recipes and menu suggestions for casual but elegant home entertaining.
More and more people are returning to the dinner table to rediscover the comforts of home through the pleasure of relaxed entertaining with friends and family. Come for Dinner celebrates home cooking with fabulous recipes and menu ideas that are low stress and appropriate for todays busy lifestyles.
Lamb Shanks with Red Wine and Green Olives, Mini Meat Loaves, Mashed Potatoes with Caramelized Onions, Pistachio Sugar Cookies...these are just a few of the delights that will entice hungry dinner guests to gather around the table. More than 125 recipes, covering everything from soups and appetizers to main courses and desserts, give cooks flexibility to put together their own memorable meals by choosing which dishes to serve together. As a bonus, two large sections of inspiring menu suggestions offer tempting possibilities for everyday dinners, special occasions, and theme ideas. Plan-ahead tips accompany every recipe to make entertaining truly effortless.
Written in a warm, engaging style as inviting as the dishes themselves, this beautifully produced package contains 16 pages of stunning full-color photographs to showcase the beauty of entertaining at home with simplicity and style.
Synopsis
Contemporary recipes and menu suggestions for casual but elegant home entertaining
More and more people are returning to the dinner table to rediscover the comforts of home through the pleasure of relaxed entertaining with friends and family. Come for Dinner celebrates home cooking with fabulous recipes and menu ideas that are low stress and appropriate for today' s busy lifestyles.
Lamb Shanks with Red Wine and Green Olives, Mini Meat Loaves, Mashed Potatoes with Caramelized Onions, Pistachio Sugar Cookies . . . these are just a few of the delights that will entice hungry dinner guests to gather around the table. More than 125 recipes, covering everything from soups and appetizers to main courses and desserts, give cooks flexibility to put together their own memorable meals by choosing which dishes to serve together. As a bonus, two large sections of inspiring menu suggestions offer tempting possibilities for everyday dinners, special occasions, and theme ideas. Plan-ahead tips accompany every recipe to make entertaining truly effortless.
Written in a warm, engaging style as inviting as the dishes themselves, this beautifully produced package contains 16 pages of stunning full-color photographs to showcase the beauty of entertaining at home with simplicity and style.
Leslie Revsin (Bronxville, NY) has won praise and wide acclaim for her work as a chef, food writer, and consultant. Her credits include the honor of being the first woman chef hired by New York' s Waldorf-Astoria, stints at One Fifth Avenue and The Inn at Pound Ridge, and cult-status success with her own Restaurant Leslie. She has been chosen as one of 13 Master Chefs of New York on PBSas well as one of Food & Wine magazine' s Top Chefs. A regular contributor to Fine Cooking magazine, she is the author of Great Fish Quick (Julia Child Cookbook Award finalist).
Synopsis
Make every meal a feast and every moment with loved ones an occasion with Come for Dinner
"Before chefs became philosophers, trendsetters, and TV stars, there was Leslie Revsin, a cook whose instinct for flavor is matched only by her sense of nurture. She has never stopped cooking from the heart, and I have never stopped wishing I could cook just like she does every night of the week. Now that shes written a book, I can."
Molly ONeill, host of the PBS series Great Food and author of the New York Cookbook
"The food revolution continues: simpler, less fussy, more delicious dining. With this great new book, Leslie Revsin is leading the charge!"
David Rosengarten, Editor-in-Chief, The Rosengarten Report
About the Author
Leslie Revsin (Bronxville, NY) has won praise and wide acclaim for her work as a chef, food writer, and consultant. Her credits include the honor of being the first woman chef hired by New Yorks Waldorf-Astoria, stints at One Fifth Avenue and The Inn at Pound Ridge, and cult-status success with her own Restaurant Leslie. She has been chosen as one of 13 "Master Chefs of New York" on PBS as well as one of Food & Wine magazines "Top Chefs." A regular contributor to Fine Cooking magazine, she is the author of Great Fish Quick (Julia Child Cookbook Award finalist).
Table of Contents
Introduction.
Chapter 1. Some Simple Menus.
Great Home Cooking .
Simplest Dinner Menus .
Just Good Food.
Soup Dinners.
Chapter 2. Soups, Green Salads, and Other Starters.
Soups.
Salad.
Other Starters.
Chapter 3. More Menus for Easy Entertaining.
Alfresco Dinners from the Grill.
Do-Ahead Dinners.
A Little More Grand.
Just Desserts.
Chapter 4. Main Courses .
Seafood.
Chicken.
Pork and Lamb.
Veal and Beef.
Slow-Cooked Dishes and Casseroles.
Chapter 5. Dishes on the Side.
Vegetables.
Potatoes, Rice, and Rolls.
Chapter 6. Desserts.
Cakes.
Cookies.
Fruit Desserts.
Puddings and a Mousse.
Ice Cream Sundaes and Chocolate Truffles.
Appendices.
Some Ideas for Easy Hors d'Oeuvres.
Ingredients and Techniques for Successful Baking.
A List of Do-Ahead Dishes.
Mail Order Sources.
Bibliography.