Good Food to Share (Williams-Sonoma): Recipes for Entertaining with Family & Friends - Sara Kate Gillingham-Ryan (Boek)

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From the founder of the popular blog The Kitchn, this lavishly photographed cookbook offers inspiring ideas and expert advice for crowd-pleasing food that's fresh and unfussy, but always delicious. The more than 100 recipes—from plentiful drinks to flavorful desserts—call for seasonal ingredients and time-savvy techniques, and are well suited to passing on large platters or in serving bowls at casual get-togethers. Throughout are helpful and engaging tips for entertaining, from selecting wines to putting together an antipasto platter. Sophisticated yet simple, these are dishes that everyone will enjoy cooking, eating, and sharing.

Sample recipes:

Drinks
White Stone-Fruit Sangria
Watermelon Mojito
Blood Orange Margarita
Fizzy Blueberry Lemonade
Lemon Verbena and Mint Tisane

Starters
Smashed Figs with Walnuts and Burrata
Crispy Five-Fragrance Calamari and Dipping Sauce
Lamb Meatballs in Lettuce Cups with Minty Yogurt
Herbed Lemon-Butter Popcorn
Maple-Bacon Spiced Nuts

Salads
Mostly Herbs Salad with Three Easy Vinaigrettes
Thai Grilled Beef Salad
Crunchy Salad with Buttermilk Dressing
Endive, Radicchio, and Apple Salad
Winter Greens with Roasted Pears and Pecorino

Mains
Guinness-Braised Chicken
Fennel-Roasted Whole Salmon
Spaghetti with Five-Herb Pesto
Grilled Cornish Hens with Chimichurri
Brined Pork Loin with Apricot-Onion Mostarda

Vegetables and Sides
Braised Artichokes with Lemon, Mint, and Olives
Maple-Glazed Sweet Potato Wedges
Grilled Asparagus with Bacon Vinaigrette
Rosemary White Beans with Fontina
Skillet Cornbread

Desserts
Rustic Fruit Galette
Grilled Peaches with Cardamom Cream
Simple Vanilla Ice Cream with Roasted Grapes
Soft Chocolate Mini Cakes
Cornmeal Cake with Dulce de Leche
Review
"In real life, Sara Kate is sweet and smart, funny, warm, gracious and boundlessly enthusiastic. She's the kind of person you always want to be around and she makes the kind of food you always want to eat: simple, honest, good looking and very, very good tasting. Here's great news: Sara Kate's style and culinary charm shine on every page of Good Food to Share." --Dorie Greenspan, author of Around My French Table
From the Author
"The ultimate goal of any dinner party I host is to connect people to their food and to share a meal together. That's it. I want to fill their bellies, of course, but mostly I want them to leave with a strong sense of connection to what they have eaten."
- Sara Kate Gillingham-Ryan
About the Author
Sara Kate Gillingham-Ryan is a food writer based in New York City, and is the founding editor of Apartment Therapy’s The Kitchn (www.thekitchn.com), an award-winning cooking website. Published daily since 2005, The Kitchn reaches over one million readers each month. Her food articles have been nationally syndicated by Tribune Media, and she has written for Bon AppÉtit; Food and Wine; House Beautiful; O, the Oprah Magazine; and Muscle and Fitness magazines. She is also the author of The Greyston Bakery Cookbook: More Than 80 Recipes to Inspire the Way you Cook and Live.
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