These cookbooks come to the rescue.
We want it all from food: be good for me, be easy enough for me to make, and, oh yeah, could you be outrageously delicious as well? These cookbooks, suggested by staff at Barnes and Noble in Woodbury, solve all these culinary qualms (and then some).
Make it Ahead by Ina Garten ($35)
The Barefoot Contessa’s latest cookbook tackles every host’s predicament: the desire to serve a fabulous meal versus the desire to spend time with guests. The book is chock-full of recipes you can make days before.
The Lagasse Girls by Jilly Lagasse and Jessie Lagasse Swenson ($30)
Emeril’s daughters look to prove “gluten-free doesn’t mean flavor-free,” and boy, do they make a run at it. Ooey gooey cinnamon rolls that are gluten-free? Yup, they went there.
