Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
Sheila Lukins, one of America's best-known and best-loved food writers, was the co-founder of the legendary Silver Palate take-out shop. Her celebrated cookbooks, written alone and with her Silver Palate partner, Julee Rosso, helped change the way America's eats. For the past 23 years, she was also the Food editor of Parade Magazine.Julee Rosso Miller co-authored the Silver Palate in 1979, and wrote The Silver Palate Cookbook in 1982, followed by The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook and The New Basics Cookbook. She also wrote Great Good Food and Fresh Start, and with her husband runs the Wickwood Inn in Saugatuck, Michigan.
Table of Contents
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
Mother's Day
Tea for Two
Primavera Wedding
EASY LIVING
Porch Brunches
Pomp and Circumstance
Fireworks on the Fourth
Summer When It Sizzles
Midsummer's 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 Year's Eve
New Year's Day
Fireside Foods
Ski Weekends
Winter Escapes
Valentine's Day
Basics
Index