Description
Product Description
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.
Review
"Full of crucial entertaining tips quotes and other tidbits...definitely worth tracking down for your kitchen library. " --
BON APPETIT - AMERICA'S FOOD AND ENTERTAINING MAGAZINE
From the Inside Flap
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.
From the Back Cover
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.
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.
Sarah Leah Chase, who founded the Massachusetts specialty food shop and catering business Que Sera Sarah, collaborated on
The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook. Her other books include
Nantucket Open-House Cookbook and
Cold-Weather Cooking. Currently she write
Features
- The Splurge Of SPRING - Fresh Starts - Spring Fever - On The Grapevine - Rainy Days And Sundays - Easter - Daffodil Weekend - Spring Chickens - Derby Weekend - Mother's day - Tea For Two
- SUMMER - Easy Living - Porch Brunches - Pomp And Circumstance - Fireworks On The Fourth - Summer When It Sizzles - Midsummer's Vegetables - Gone Fishing - 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