Go-To Dinners : A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook; Make Ahead, Freeze Ahead, Prep Ahead, Easy, Assembled

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • America’s favorite home cook presents delicious, crowd-pleasing, go-to recipes that you’ll want to make over and over again! Even Ina Garten, America's most-trusted and beloved home cook, sometimes finds cooking stressful. To make life easy she relies on a repertoire of recipes that she knows will turn out perfectly every time. Cooking night after night during the pandemic inspired her to re-think the way she approached dinner, and the result is this collection of comforting and delicious recipes that you’ll love preparing and serving. You’ll find lots of freeze-ahead, make-ahead, prep-ahead, and simply assembled recipes so you, too, can make dinner a breeze. In Go-To Dinners , Ina shares her strategies for making her most satisfying and uncomplicated dinners. Many, like Overnight Mac & Cheese, you can make ahead and throw in the oven right before dinner. Light dinners like Tuscan White Bean Soup can be prepped ahead and assembled at the last minute. Go-to family meals like Chicken in a Pot with Orzo and Hasselback Kielbasa will feed a crowd with very little effort. And who doesn’t want to eat Breakfast For Dinner? You’ll find recipes for Scrambled Eggs Cacio e Pepe and Roasted Vegetables with Jammy Eggs that are a snap to make and so satisfying. Ina’s “Two-Fers” guide you on how to turn leftovers from one dinner into something different and delicious the second night. And sometimes the best dinner is one you don’t even have to cook! You’ll find Ina’s favorite boards to serve with store-bought ingredients, like an Antipasto Board and Breakfast-for-Dinner Board that are fun to assemble and so impressive to serve. Finally, because no meal can be considered dinner without dessert, there are plenty of prep-ahead and easy sweets like a Bourbon Chocolate Pecan Pie and Beatty’s Chocolate Cupcakes that everyone will rave about. For Ina, “I love you, come for dinner” is more than just an invitation to share a meal, it’s a way to create a community of friends and family who love and take care of each other, and we all need that now more than ever. These go-to recipes will give you the confidence to create dinners that will bring everyone to your table. Introduction Drinks & Apps Bourbon Arnold Palmers Watermelon Cosmopolitans Pink Grapefruit Palomas Pomegranate Spritzers Hot Spiced Mulled Wine Smoked Salmon Quesadillas Creamy Hummus Easy Oysters Rockefeller Goat Cheese Toasts Chipotle Cheddar Crackers Antipasto Board Breakfast for Dinner Scrambled Eggs Cacio e Pepe Roasted Vegetables with Jammy Eggs Garlic & Herb Butter Avocado & Fried Egg Tartines Overnight Irish Oatmeal English Cream Scones Fresh Strawberry Rhubarb Preserves Croissants with Smoked Salmon Easy Eggs in Purgatory Blueberry Ricotta Breakfast Cake Vanilla Coffee Shakerato Breakfast-for-Dinner Board Light Dinners Ravioli en Brodo Homemade Chicken Stock Creamy Potato Fennel Soup Chicken Ramen-Noodle Soup Gruyère Omelet Tuscan White Bean Soup Lobster & Avocado Sandwiches Hot Dogs in Puff Pastry Winter Greens with Stilton & Hazelnuts Warm Vegetable & Grain Bowl Greek Orzo Salad French Bistro Salad Heirloom Tomato & Blue Cheese Salad Caramelized Butternut Squash with Burrata Creamy Eggs with Lobster & Crab Roasted Shrimp Panzanella Provençal Orange Salad Potato Salad à la Julia Child Melon & Prosciutto Ploughman’s Lunch Family Dinners Roast Chicken with Spring Vegetables Chicken in a Pot with Orzo Creamy Chicken Thighs with Lemon & Thyme Rosemary Roasted Pork Tenderloins Veal Meatballs Hasselback Kielbasa Grilled Porterhouse Steak with Rosemary & Fennel Summer Skillet with Clams, Sausage & Corn Oven-Roasted Southern “Shrimp Boil” Salmon Teriyaki & Broccolini Steamed Basmati Rice Mussels with Saffron Cream Overnight Mac & Cheese One-Pot Oven Risotto Mushroom Bolognese Weeknight Spaghettoni with Tomatoes & Pancetta Lemon Linguine with Zucchini & Basil Orange Marmalade–Glazed Ham Vegetables & Sides Asparagus Cacio e Pepe Balsamic Roasted Baby Peppers Slow-Roasted Tomatoes with Fennel Honey-Roasted Delicata Squash Roasted Fingerling Potatoes & Almost Any Green Vegetable Glazed Sweet Potatoes Easy Sesame Noodles Brown Butter Skillet Cornbread Molasses Baked Beans Parmesan Polenta Marble Potatoes with Garlic & Herbs Maple-Roasted Honeynut Squash Garlic-Roasted Haricots Verts Parsnip Purée Buttermilk Biscuits Desserts Panettone Bread Pudding Dark Chocolate Tart Vanilla Pound Cake Lemon Meringue Squares Bailey’s & Cream Rum Raisin Ricotta Ice Cream Fresh Berry & Mascarpone Tart Bourbon Chocolate Pecan Pie Beatty’s Chocolate Cupcakes Chocolate Buttercream Roasted Pineapple with Coconut Gelato Easy Chocolate Mousse Sweetened Whipped Cream Cinnamon-Spiced Shortbread Dessert Board Thank You! Resources Index Recipe Index Cooking during the pandemic inspired Garten to rethink the way she approached dinner. Here shares strategies for making delicious, satisfying, and uncomplicated dinners. Many of the recipes are freeze-ahead, make-ahead, prep-ahead, or simply assembled from leftovers from another dinner. She even shows you how to assemble amazing boards using store-bought ingredients! -- adapted from front flap The popular cooking show host and New York times bestselling author shares her strategies for making delicious, satisfying, and uncomplicated dinners, including such dishes as overnight mac & cheese, Tuscan white bean soup, chicken in a pot with orzo, and roasted vegetables with jammy eggs