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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
Good Food to Share is broken up into six sections: Drinks, Starters, Salads, Mains, Vegetables and Sides, and Desserts. Each has a nice selection of dishes, including a fair number of fish and vegetarian dishes. Drinks anyone? Why pull out a bottle of "something" when you can prepare your own delectable refreshments? Watermelon mojito was super easy to make and cherry rum punch, also easy to prepare, looked great in my new glasses. Hmm. maybe I'm concentrating on the drinks too much! This cookbook has some amazing recipes with exotic names but fortunately, not crazy prep times or complicated preparations. "Israeli couscous with porcini and arugula" and "Crispy five-fragrance calamari and dipping sauce" were names I kept a secret until after my kids had tried them. While the calamari wasn't a big hit with my teens, it was rated a 5 by my husband. Yes, the kids were more into the "Smashed potatoes" which is basically mashed potatoes with a slight variation in ingredients and a suggestion to leave some chunks "for an appealing texture." While I was initially apprehensive about this cookbook, given its topic of entertaining, I found the recipes I tested to be fairly easy to prepare and delicious. I particularly appreciated the author's notes included with most of the recipes. From how best to handle leftovers, to ingredient notes and how to dress up a dish to better present it to company, these suggestions came in handy. As with all Williams-Sonoma cookbooks I've encountered, this one is replete with amazing, tantalizing photos. You can see the juices popping off the page on the "grilled steak with charmoula." "Beef tataki with vegetable slaw and ponzu" anybody? It looks fabulous on the page as well as on the plate. And the taste didn't disappoint! While there are a zillion cookbooks on the market today, if you're entertaining, and even if you're not, consider Good Food to Share for some delectable recipes. Quill says: Make yourself a "Sparkling limoncello-raspberry cocktail" and get to work creating some fabulous dishes for your night of entertaining with this wonderful cookbook.
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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...