Saturday, January 17, 2009

Best of the Best from Iowa or Italian Family Cooking

Best of the Best from Iowa: Selected Recipes from Iowa's Favorite Cookbooks, Vol. 26

Author: Gwen McKe

From the covered bridges of Madison County, to the baseball Field of Dreams, to Grant Wood's farmland, eighty-nine of Iowa's leading cookbooks have contributed their most popular recipes to create this remarkable collection. The "land between two rivers"—the Missouri and the Mississippi—boasts some of the nation's richest farmland and a bounty of delicious treats. Bring the Best Iowa cooking into your own kitchen with such traditional favorites as Swedish Meatballs, Dutch Handkerchiefs, Iowa Corn Pancakes, Rhubarb Crisp, and Stuffed Glazed Pork Chops—just a sampling of the 400 or so recipes included within these pages.



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Italian Family Cooking: Like Mamma Used to Make

Author: Anne Casal

Anne Casale invites you into her kitchen to share the special secrets behind hundreds of home-style recipes that have been part of her family's heritage for years and years.

A second-generation Italian American and the head of her own cooking school, she takes you by the hand and shows you how to make her father's succulent veal roast, her Nonna Louisa's very own homemade pasta, savory soups based on her mother's perfect broth, sumptuous desserts from her pastry-chef father-in-law, and scores of her own wonderful originals. Best of all, she explains the recipes so carefully and clearly that you are sure to start your own new tradition of delicious

Italian Family Cooking
— Clam-Stuffed Mushrooms
— Melt-in-Your-Mouth Fried Mozzarella
— Linguine with Tomato-Garlic Sauce
— Penne with Mushrooms and Prosciutto
— Delectable Five Layer Pasta Pie
— Pan-Fried Lamb Chops with Lemon Juice
— Chicken Legs Stuffed with Sausage and Scallions
— Fillets of Sole Florentine
— Mussels with Hot Tomato Sauce
— Zucchini with Roasted Peppers
— Fluffy Potato Pie
— Ricotta Mousse with Raspberry Sauce
— Espresso Cream Tart
— Sicilian Cassata with Chocolate Frosting ...and many more!

For beginners and experts alike, here's a cookbook full of old-fashioned warmth, wisdom, and goodness — updated for you and your kitchen.



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