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Chicken Fricassee with Meatballs from Back to Square One: Old-World Food in a New-World Kitchen

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Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics: Fabulous Flavor from Simple Ingredients

By Ina Garten
Clarkson Potter - 2008

This was my first time cooking grits. The recipe was easy and delicious. I served this with roasted shrimp (same cookbook) and dandelion greens (Bittman's How to Cook Everything.)

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You have to love a recipe that has dinner on the table in less than five minutes. This is super easy and super delicious. It doesn't need as much butter as the recipe indicates. It tastes just fine with less.

It's great with Ina's Broccoli with Garlic (Barefoot Contessa cookbook). Yum!

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This is fabulous! It is delicious on its own or with the compound butter. Serve with steamed green beans and bread and you have an easy, yummy dinner. I didn't grill this but seared it in cast iron instead. It needed to cook longer than the indicated grill time.

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This was delicious. I used large homemade hoagie rolls that I had previously frozen (Artisan Bread Every Day) instead of ciabatta. Yum!

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These are very good and are full of fruit and nuts. They are also full of sugar, coconut and butter so don't be fooled into thinking they are all that good for you! While they taste so much better than store-bought granola bars, they are also much more expensive. It's a nice recipe to make once in a while.

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This is a quick and simple recipe that just screams summer. I make it a lot when basil is plentiful and then freeze it in smaller portions to enjoy when summer is over.

Ina gives us the exact same recipe in three of her books: How Easy is That?, BC Parties! and Back to Basics. The pesto is good in many of her recipes but I also like it on plain pasta, on chicken or on a piece of fish.

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So- the photo I took doesn't really do this justice! This dish is delicious. If you want dinner on the table in just about 15 minutes (including prep) then this is the dish for you.

Go easy on the salt, however, because it is easy to over do it with the capers and the additional salt that is called for. This is great with asparagus.

To get the brown color that is in the cookbook photo, I had to place the pan under the broiler for a few minutes.

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I thought this was fabulous! I loved the lemon juice and lemon zest on the broccoli. Since I like vegetables on the crunchier side, I did not cook this for the entire time and actually wish I had cooked it even less.

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These are delicious and simple to make. I had to leave out the pecans because they needed to be nut-free but next time I would like to add them in. I used a rounded tablespoon and got about 42 cookies. Next time, I would make them larger. I like Ina's tip to cool the cookies on the sheet pan if you like them chewy. I never knew this before.

6/18- I just made bigger cookies and added pecans and they were even better!

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I love this. It only takes 10 minutes to make and tastes SO much better than boiled shrimp. The recipe for the cocktail sauce is yummy too. Serve these cold.

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Yum! These are quick to make and are really delicious. I loved the remoulade but don't think it is necessary to spread it on both sides of the roll. I think it overpowered the crab. I also loved the pecan coating on the crabs but think it might be wasted in the sandwich. I would definitely make the crabs again with the coating and serve them without rolls.

I recommend serving this with the matchstick potatoes from Barefoot in Paris.

I see why the cookbook doesn't have a photo of this recipe. While it tastes good- it doesn't photograph so well!

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