Barefoot Contessa at Home: Everyday Recipes You’ll Make Over and Over Again

Barefoot Contessa at Home is a great cookbook for the inexperienced and time poor. Contessa provides wonderful recipes for those who wish to spend as little time as possible in the kitchen, and more time with friends.

With Barefoot Contessa you will learn how to make old-fashioned potato salad, breakfast fruit crunch, or chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter icing – to just name a few!! Most recipes are delicious and best of all, it won’t take you all day to create them. It is in an easy to read format and she lets readers in on her time-tested secrets for cooking and entertaining. Also get the inside scoop on everything from what she considers when she’s designing a kitchen, to menu-planning basics and how to make a dinner party fun (hint: it doesn’t involve making complicated food!).

I am a big fan of pictures in cookbooks and Barefoot Contessa at Home provides just that. It also provides a great visual of what the dish should look like at the end!

Best of all this cookbook is filled with recipes that you can make everyday and inside are sure to be some recipes which you will continue to make forever.