If you're hosting for the holidays, you're probably feeling a little nervous. Best-selling author Ina Garten knows that anxiety well — and she has some advice: Make a game plan, and keep it simple.
Garten says her aim is to be your best friend and guide in the kitchen — on everything from putting together a quick meal to pulling off a successful gathering for friends and loved ones."You know, cooking is like driving a car. You know the road is straight, but you kind of have to adjust the wheel every once in a while to make sure you're staying on the road."Go-To DinnersI was helping people on Instagram figure out what to do with those white beans that they put in the pantry.
I thought,"[Does] dinner really have to be a meat, a vegetable, and a starch?" So I started [to] do one thing [a night], like chicken in a pot with orzo, where everything is in one pot. And those are the recipes that I put in the book.[My husband and I] were on vacation at a restaurant in Cannes. And there was one big, long table that was obviously friends having a party. There must have been 20 people.
And out of the kitchen came this enormous long wood board that they put down right in the middle of the table. And it had pieces of tart and long stemmed strawberries and shards of chocolate and little tarts and cookies. [The dish had] all kinds of things that you could actually buy in a bakery. And I thought,"Well, that's a great idea. Here's an entire dessert for a huge party. And I wouldn't even have to bake anything."One thing I've made a lot is the teriyaki salmon with broccolini. What you do is make a teriyaki sauce with ginger and garlic and sesame oil. Marinate the salmon with [it], and put it in the oven.
As it cooks, it makes a sauce for the salmon, and then the broccolini goes in at the same temperature on a different shelf, and you end up with a full dinner that you've cooked in 12 minutes. Then serve it with some basmati riceThe following recipes are from GO-TO DINNERS. Copyright © 2022 by Ina Garten. Photographs copyright @2022 by Quentin Bacon. Published by Clarkson Potter, an imprint of Random House, division of Penguin Random House, LLC. All rights reserved.
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