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Weeknights with Giada: Quick and Simple Recipes to Revamp Dinner

By Gida de Laurentiis

Clarkson Potter | March 2012 | ISBN: 030745102X | English | 240 pages | EPUB | 25.70 MB

http://www.amazon.com/Weeknights-Giada-Simple-Recipes-Revamp/dp/030745102X

Giada De Laurentiis is one of America’s

most-loved culinary stars, adored for her Food Network hit shows and her

New York Times bestselling cookbooks alike, both of which feature her

fresh, flavorful Italian recipes. For the first time, Giada tackles

weeknight cooking, sharing her favorite tips and go-to dishes—all in her

vibrant signature style—to get a delicious meal on the table in a

flash.

After a full day, Giada, like most parents,

wants nothing more than to sit down for a home-cooked dinner with her

husband, Todd, and their daughter, Jade. Weeknights with Giada rises to

the challenge, delivering soups, sandwiches, pizzas, pastas, and meat

and fish dishes that come together quickly as stand-alone main

courses—most in half an hour or less: Rustic Vegetable and Polenta Soup,

a hearty soul-warming one-pot dish, cooks in under twenty minutes;

Lemony White Bean, Tuna, and Arugula Salad is a great meal that’s

quickly assembled from pantry and fridge essentials; Spicy Linguini with

Clams and Mussels is a fifteen-minute-or-less spectacular pasta; and

you can’t beat Grilled Sirloin Steaks with Pepper and Caper Salsa, which

are also ready in just fifteen minutes. From inventive

breakfast-for-dinner dishes and meatless Monday vegetarian recipes—both

weekly traditions in Giada’s house—to picnic sandwiches and hearty salad

recipes for reinventing leftovers, Weeknights with Giada reveals every

secret in her repertoire. Even the desserts are quick to mix and bake,

should a craving—or a last-minute school bake sale—strike.

Here is Giada at her most inventive—and at

her most laid-back. Flavor, freshness, and fun take center stage while

cooking times, pots dirtied, and stress are kept to a minimum. With

gorgeous color photographs and intimate home snapshots of Giada and her

family, Weeknights with Giada is a welcome handbook of fantastic recipes

and surefire Monday-to-Friday strategies for every home cook.

About the Author

GIADA DE LAURENTIIS is the star of Food

Network's Everyday Italian, Giada's Weekend Getaways, and Giada in

Paradise. She attended Le Cordon Bleu in Paris and worked at Wolfgang

Puck's Spago restaurantin Los Angeles.