Giada's Family Dinners by Giada De Laurentiis
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Book Reviews of Giada's Family Dinners
Book Review: Perfect again
Summary: 5 Stars
If you're looking for easy-to-make and relatively fast meals that taste great, you're in for a treat once again with Miss De Laurentiis' newest book. Of course, there are more refined, elaborate, and challeging Italian cookbooks out there, but if you don't want to spend all day in the kitchen yet turn out beautiful and delicious meals, try this. In my opinion, food for dinner with friends or family shouldn't be either demanding for the cook to create or intimidating for the guests to eat. Therefore, it's great for family meals as well as for entertaining. If you're looking to WOW your guests with all of the hours of work you put into a meal, try Charlie Trotter instead. If you're looking for time to spend enjoying your guests and diners who beg for your recipe, buy Giada's book.Book Review: Straordinario!
Summary: 5 Stars
I was a little skeptical about buying this book, because I do not care for her show on the Food network. I have tried several of the recipes, and they are to die for! The recipes are easy to cook. However, I do not believe in great tasting, fast Italian food - the average time for preparing and cooking most of the recipes is about an hour, some a little longer. I have yet to find any good Italian food made quick or on the cheap. Some of the best recipes are the Farmers pasta (kids love it), marinated zucchini and summer squash, stuffed artichokes, parmesan crusted pork chops, grilled portobello mushrooms, and many more. She even includes a recipe for bellinis! Now I plan to buy her other book, Everyday Italian.Book Review: Wonderful Cookbook
Summary: 5 Stars
Giada De Laurentiis is one of my favorite chefs. Her second book is a hit. Her recipes are truly delicious because it targets a flavor and expands on it. Every single one of the recipes that I have tried in this book (I have yet to try them all) are all so flavorful and delicious. She herself is an inspiration. Her recipes have that special touch, that love of food, that shows through all her delicious offerings. She expands a bit from her first book, which had the traditional first offerings of "simple" dishes. I prefer this book to her first one, as there are plenty of "simple" sauces to go around. I prefer Giada's home touch, which this book has plenty of.Book Review: step up from her last
Summary: 5 Stars
Though I haven't cooked a lot from this yet (I own too many other cookbooks I'm trying to work through!), what I have cooked from here has been great. In her last book, there were too many cleavage shots and a couple "throwaway" recipes, this book is a step up in every way--better recipes, more actual pictures of the dishes. This cookbook has a lot more usefulness than the last as well. I want to cook a lot more from this one, and in many ways the things seem more practical.
See the table of contents provided by another reviewer--I'll think you'll find an interesting and intriguing selection. As a developing home cook, I highly recommend this book.
Book Review: Just as good as her first cookbook!
Summary: 5 Stars
What I appreciate about both of Giada's cookbooks is their simplicity and of course, the end result. Unlike some other cooks written by celebrity chefs where the ingredient list is a mile long -- or the dishes never turn out tasting quite right because maybe ordinary folks lack their culinary talents! -- Giada's recipes truly deliver...each and every time. I don't know how she does it, but she manages, both on her Food Network show and in her cookbooks, to make her dishes accessible, beautiful to look at, and delicious. I have many, many cookbooks, and hers are the cookbooks I reach for more often than any others. Thank you, Giada!