When you start cookink, you learn quickly that one of its pleasures is enjoying a meal with friends and family. In this inviting cookbook, trusted author Julia Turshen presents a new approach to convivial cooking and thinking about food that will draw people to your table.
More than 150 recipes are gathered into twenty genrous menus built around food that's both crave-worthy and doable: meatloaf, enchiladas, roast chicken with sweet potatoes, vanilla semifreddo with honeyed strawberries, double-baked potatoes with horseradish and cheddar. Written in Julia's easy, encouraging voice, here are dishes that celebrate seasonal, crowd-pleasing food and drink for all meal occasions - breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner, holiday feasts - and for cooks of all skill levels.
Just as helpful to the home cook are Julia's lessons that go beyond the recipes, tackling some of the most challenging elements of cooking: timing, volume, that should I serve this with? and, very importantly, what should I do wuth these leftovers!?
Now & Again takes a serious position on leftovers: make something new and delicious from them! Throughout the book, Julia's It's Me Again mini-recipes transform any leftovers into whole new dishes. And to help you get a meal to the table with minimum fuss/stress, every menu has timetable so you know what you can make ahead and how to bring it all together. Making a beautiful meal is simple with Julia in the kitchen deside you. And Now & Again is cheerful, welcoming cookbook full of tomorrow's classics foe a new generation of cooks.