Pasta Italia: Enjoy 280 Best-loved Recipes from the Kitchens of Italy
Author: Cristina Blasi
If you love pasta in all of its glorious forms-from herb-filled ravioli to baked spinach lasagna to pasta ribbons with seafood to curled noodles with wild mushroom sauce-then Pasta Italia is the cookbook for you!
Packed with more than 250 tantalizing recipes, this mouth-watering collection from the founders of the Cordon Bleu Cooking School of Florence features soups, sauces, fresh pasta, filled pasta, baked pasta, cold pasta salads, and even desserts. These quintessential Mediterranean dishes even have an added health benefit: The Mediterranean diet has long been associated with the lowest rates of chronic disease and the highest life expectancies for adults in the world.
Here is everything you need to create extraordinary dishes, including: Recipes organized by region-from the north to the south of Italy-and ranging from Sugo di Carciofi (Artichoke Pasta Sauce) from Liguria to Pasta e Ceci (Diamond-shaped Pasta with Garbanzo Beans and Rosemary) from Umbria to Ciciones Gnocchetti allo Zafferano (Saffron Gnocchi in Meat Sauce) from Sardinia. Step-by-step illustrated instructions for techniques such as making basic pasta dough, tortellini, and orecchiette. Recipes ranked by level of difficulty, from super-easy to the more challenging, with most at the easier level. More than 200 beautiful photographs that illustrate finished dishes, fresh ingredients, and exquisite Italian vistas.
Whether you crave gnocchi from Piedmont, potato and pasta soup from Tuscany, or cannelloni with fish from Sicily, Pasta Italia helps you serve a delicious cuisine full of fresh flavors and good health.
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Chocolate Obsession: Confections and Treats to Create and Savor
Author: Michael Recchiuti
Known as the "Picasso of chocolatiers," Michael Recchiuti creates confections that are every bit as daring and original as any of his namesake's artworks. But unlike the painter, the chocolate maker has made it possible for even the amateur to achieve his artistry. In Chocolate Obsession Recchiuti, owner of the famed artisanal chocolate company in San Francisco, divulges his professional secrets and techniques, allowing home cooks to reproduce his exquisite confections in their own kitchens.
Opening with a complete discussion of chocolate from bean to bar, the book goes on to offer detailed instructions for dipped chocolates, truffles, and molded chocolates, including Recchiuti's signature ganache flavors: Earl Grey tea, burnt caramel, tarragon with grapefruit. Also featured are recipes for such sinfully delicious treats as Chocolate Shortbread Cookies with Truffle Cream Filling, Double Dark Chocolate Souffles, and Rocky Recchiuti Brownies. With more than 60 recipes in all, this book will satisfy even the most obsessive chocolate lovers among us.
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