GOOD TASTES.FAMILY STYLE: If you're a devotee of best-selling author Ina Garten's two previous cookbooks and her easy and stylish recipes and ideas, you're bound to love her newest volume ``Ina Garten  Ina Rosenberg Garten (born February 2 1948) is an American author, and host of the Food Network program Barefoot Contessa. Barefoot Contessa Family Style (Clarkson Potter; $35). Garten - a caterer and longtime owner of the upscale food shop the Barefoot Contessa in East Hampton East Hampton or its variants is the name of several places in the United States:
As in her other books, the food in this volume is accessible, fresh, irresistible and memorable. It includes dishes like East Hampton Clam clam, common name for certain bivalve mollusks, especially for marine species that live buried in mud or sand and have valves (the two pieces of the shell) of equal size. Chowder chowder, stew of fish or shellfish with potatoes, onions, and pork (usually salt pork), thickened with crumbled hard bread. The name chowder seems to have originated from the French word chaudière , Smoked Salmon Noun 1. smoked salmon - salmon cured by smoking salmon - flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae lox - brine-cured salmon that is lightly smoked Spread (the perfect no-cook appetizer) Buffalo Chicken Wings Chicken Wings can refer to:
In the book you'll also find party-planning tips, Garten's nine most important pantry ingredients, the 10 most useful kitchen tools and seasonal menu suggestions for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Garten wants those who come to her house to feel like family - and she encourages connecting and a sense of community when she entertains. For more ideas, look for Garten's new television series on simple entertaining, ``Barefoot Contessa,'' debuting on the Food Network at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 30. - Natalie Haughton DIET VANILLA COKE DEBUTS: After the launch of Vanilla Coke this past spring, the Coca-Cola Co. was inundated in·un·date tr.v. in·un·dat·ed, in·un·dat·ing, in·un·dates 1. To cover with water, especially floodwaters. 2. with consumer requests (some 7,000) for a diet version. And now Diet Vanilla Coke is being rolled out in stores nationwide. Look for it in a variety of sizes - 20-ounce plastic bottles, 2-liter plastic bottles and 12 packs (of 12-ounce cans) - at major supermarkets, mass merchandisers and drug stores. After finally locating a bottle of it to taste (I went to three stores), it brought back youthful memories of soda-fountain vanilla coke. I loved the pronounced vanilla flavor and would definitely buy the diet version. No doubt this product will have lots of fans. - N.H. FREEBIE free·bie also free·bee n. Slang An article or service given free: "such freebies as subway and bus maps" New York. LEAFLET If you're a Nutella fan or hope to become one - and would like some interesting ideas to use the creamy, chocolaty hazelnut spread - you'll enjoy ``Sweet Seasons of Taste!'' The 24-page colorful booklet features recipes that include Nutella Swirl Ring, Nutella Granita gra·ni·ta n. A granular dessert ice with a sugar-syrup base, usually flavored with fruit purée, coffee, or wine. [Italian, from feminine past participle of granire, to make grainy, granulate , Nutella Pumpkin Pie, Nutella Stix-n-Stones and more. You'll also learn that the spread was created in the 1940s in Italy and today, worldwide, it outsells all brands of peanut butter combined. For a free copy, call (800) 688-3552, or visit www.NutellaUSA.com and click on the free recipe book link. - N.H. DINING OUT Looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a restaurant-style Thanksgiving turkey dinner to eat at home? Consider these. Sisley Italian Kitchens has a 12-pound turkey (feeds up to six) ready to heat and serve plus all the trimmings, accompaniments and dessert for $79.95. Maggiano's Little Italy in Woodland Hills offers a turkey or honey-glazed ham dinner to go for $30 per adult and $15 per child 5 to 12. The three-course roast turkey dinner to go with starter and dessert options is $27 per person at BG to Go Cafe in Studio City. For a spa 15-pound organic wild turkey meal feeding four to six, Breeze restaurant at the Century Plaza Hotel The Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles is a landmark 19-story luxury hotel forming a sweeping crescent design fronting the spectacular fountains on Avenue of the Stars adjacent to the twin Century Plaza Towers. will bring everything to your car for $160 plus tax. Regular turkey is $140. Faux turkey breast and total veggie dinners for vegans and vegetarians are available from Real Food Daily for $27.95 per person. Whole organic vegan vegan /veg·an/ (ve´gan) (vej´an) a vegetarian whose diet excludes all food of animal origin. ve·gan n. pies are available for an additional charge. For trimmings only, both Granita in Malibu and Josie in Santa Monica offer take-home service on soups, stuffings, sweet and regular potatoes, sauces, whole pies, pretty much the works minus the bird. Call for prices. Ordering deadlines and pickup times and days vary - call individual restaurants for specifics. Breeze, Century Plaza, 2025 Avenue of the Stars, Century City, (310) 551-3396. Sisley, 15300 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks, (818) 905-8444; also in Thousand Oaks, Valencia and West L.A. Maggiano's, Westfield Shoppingtown Promenade, Woodland Hills (Erwin Street entrance), (818) 887-4543. BG to Go, 12950 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, (818) 366-3246. Real Food Daily, 414 N. La Cienega Blvd., West Hollywood, (310) 289-9910; also in Santa Monica. Josie, 2424 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, (310) 581-9888. Granita, 23725 W. Malibu Road, Malibu, (310) 456-0488. - Larry Lipson CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1) no caption (Book: ``Ina Garten Barefoot Contessa Family Style'') (2) no caption (Diet Vanilla Coke) (3) no caption (Leaflet: ``Sweet Seasons of Taste!'') |
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