Mozza at Home - More than 150 Crowd Pleasing Recipes for Relaxed, Family Style

Informationen zum Autor Nancy Silverton with Carolynn Carreño Klappentext As an award-winning chef and the owner of six busy restaurants across two continents! Nancy Silverton was so consumed by her life in the professional kitchen that for years she almost never cooked at home. With her intense focus on the business of cooking! Nancy had forgotten what made her love to cook in the first place: fabulous ingredients at the height of their season! simple food served family style! and friends and loved ones gathered around the dinner table. Then! on a restorative trip to Italy-with its ripe vegetables! magnificent landscapes! and long summer days-Nancy began to cook for friends and family again! and rediscovered the great pleasures (and great tastes!) of cooking and eating at home. Now! in Mozza at Home! Nancy shares her renewed passion and provides nineteen menus packed with easy-to-follow recipes that can be prepared in advance (with no fancy restaurant equipment needed!) and are perfect for entertaining. Organized by meal! each menu provides a main dish along with a complementary selection of appetizers and side dishes. Under Nancy's guidance you can mix and match all the options depending on the size of your gathering. Make a few sides for a small dinner party with friends! or make them all for a delicious family feast! And don't forget dessert-there's an entire chapter dedicated to end-of-meal treats such as Devil's Food Rings with Spiced White Mountain Frosting and Dario's Olive Oil Cake with Rosemary and Pine Nuts that can be prepared hours before serving so that the host gets to relax during the event too. Whether it's Marinated Olives and Fresh Pecorino and other appetizers that can be put out while you're assembling the rest of the meal . . . salads! such as Endive Salad with Date Anchovy Dressing! composed of sturdy lettuces that won't wilt . . . simple sides! such as Roasted Carrots and Chickpeas with Cumin Vinaigrette! that are just as delicious served at room temperature as they are warm . . . or show-stopping mains such as the Flattened Chicken Thighs with Charred Lemon Salsa Verde-there is something here for everyone and every occasion. With clever tips on how to organize your table and your time when serving many guests! Mozza at Home helps you throw the perfect dinner party-one that's positively stress-free and delicious! Introduction Owning four busy Mozza restaurants in Southern California and two in Singapore, it’s surprisingly easy to forget how and why I started down the path that led me here so many years ago: because of the immense pleasure I get from cooking a meal and serving it to family and friends. For many years while running La Brea Bakery and the pastry kitchen at Campanile, my first restaurant, which I opened in 1989 with my then husband, I didn’t cook at all—other than foods, such as pasta with butter, for my kids’ dinner. But that changed about fifteen years ago, when I started spending time in Italy. From the very first summer that I rented an apartment in a small medieval hill town on the Umbria-Tuscany border where I now own a home, my being situated in Umbria and the bounty of the area turned out to be the perfect storm that blew me back into the kitchen. With local ingredients including cherry tomatoes, red torpedo onions, and fragrant basil at the height of their season; regional specialties such as chickpeas, lentils, and sheep’s milk cheese; long summer days when it stays light until almost ten o’clock; and an endless cast of hungry friends who arrived weekly from Los Angeles and rented apartments and houses in the same town, I started cooking again—more than I ever had. And despite the fact that I had rented a house with a tiny kitchen stocked with aluminum pots and pans and one dull knife, I was reminded of how much I love preparing food for family and friends—old and new. My friend Suzanne Tracht, also a c...

Product details

• Authors: Carolynn Carreno, Nancy Silverton
• Assisted by: Christopher Hirsheimer (Illustration)
• Publisher: Knopf
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9780385354325
• ISBN: 978-0-385-35432-5
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 241 mm x 30 mm
• Series: ALFRED A. KNOPF
• Subject: Guides > Food & drink > International cuisine