A must have for your kitchen
I love ALL of Joie Warner's cookbooks, especially her pasta books. The recipes are simple, quick, and they all taste great. Seriously, ever single one. We keep a lot of the ingredients in our pantry now and can whip up many of her recipes anytime. The only reason I don't give 5 stars is because I think she tends to not use enough of the amounts of the ingredients. We often double or triple. For instance, her clam sauce is GREAT and easy, but we use twice as much clam juice, and for all recipes we use way more garlic, etc. No big thing. Easy to do. Seriously, your kitchen needs Joie's pasta cookbooks.
She's got Pasta Sauces, Pasta Sauces 2 , and No Cook Pasta. We use ALL of them.
Great ideas!
This book is a collection of ideas about how do dress your pasta. It begins with a short introduction to pasta, describing different types of pasta, how to cook the pasta, how to mix the sauce in, how to serve the pasta, how to eat pasta (table manners), ingredients, and equipment. The remainder of the book is recipes organized into the following sections: quick sauces, cheese and egg sauces, tomato sauces, vegetable sauces, seafood sauces, meat and poultry sauces, and pasta salads.
The recipes tend to be simple yet creative. Warner is not afraid of dreaming up new combinations of ingredients to pour on her pasta, such as caviar and lemon, or oranges and olives. In addition to these wild sauces, she also includes recipes for old standards, such as spaghetti and meatballs, and alfredo sauce. While most ingredients called for in the recipes are fresh, Warner notes where canned or dried will work just as well. After reading this book, I begin to get the idea that all you really need to do is grab 2 or 3 three fresh ingredients, cook them (or simply slice them up) with some garlic and olive oil, add the pasta, and presto! There's dinner! That seems to be Warner's underlying advice.
A Must for your cookbook shelf
I bought this book many years ago and have used it so much that some pages are marked with sauce and personal notes that I have tailored to my family's taste buds. This cookbook deserves 5 stars and if you can find it, buy it!!
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