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might go back to again for spaghetti sauce or meatballs.
Every two months, a group of my friends and I cook up recipes from a different cookbook. We then score our own dishes on a scale from 1-5, take photos of our dishes, and review the recipes we made... then at the end of the round, I compile all the dishes into a blog entry and average out the scores. For March/April Cook Club, we cooked up a storm from Mario Batali's Molto Gusto. Molto Gusto scored a 3.94 out of 5.0 for us! Our favorite dishes were the sunchokes with walnut gremolata, linguine wi...
Mario Batali is a rock star Iron Chef. He wears those orange clogs like he doesn't even care how absolutely hideous they are. But I'll forgive him the fashion faux pas given his ability to make Italian cuisine so simple, yet so delicious. These recipes are inspired by his restaurant Otto Enoteca Pizzeria in NYC, which I have had the privilege of dining at. The recipes in this book are so simple that it's sort of almost not worth making a cookbook out of them. But for someone looking to learn new...
I'm back in my Nana's kitchen again smelling the fragrance only memory can reproduce,. Thanks to Mario's recipe s and photos, this journey was accomplished! Enjoyable reading. Outstanding!!!I would wholeheartedly recommend anyone wishing to duplicate an excellent, authentic Italian dish, try any or all of Mario's recipe s found in this book.
5 stars -English hardcover- Brava ! Great recipes. Everybody loved them. 💜🦋😍
A nice cookbook--and a different cookbook--from Mario Batali. In his words at the outset (Page 13): "What you will certainly notice quite quickly is that this cookbook is radically different from all the others that I have written in its complete lack of traditional main dishes."The book is divided into several sections--vegetable antipasti, seafoods and meat antipasti, bruschetta and cheese, insalata (salad), pasta, pizza, and gelato and sorbetto. No super protein dishes here. Photographs are n...
I should preface this review with an admission: I have a crush on Mr. Batali. I have since I can remember. The food, the confidence and the humor, an attractive combo. Yes, my husband knows about this crush and endorses it. I think secretly he has a man crush on Mario as well.Here's what I have always enjoyed about Mario's shows and cookbooks: he really is all about simple, which I think is what is so beautiful about Italian food anyway. Yes, French food is a bit fancier and when I'm in the righ...
Batali's Molto Gusto: Easy Italian Cooking is worth the price for the vegetable antipasti recipes alone. We're often fumbling for interesting side dishes that won't overwhelm the main course, and there is a great deal here that fits the bill. I am also eager to play with his pizza dough recipes (plural) as it's easy to get into a rut with an overused go-to pizza dough. This is a slightly older book (2010), but I found it at a consignment shop and snapped it up after doing the standard test of tu...
The recipes in this book look fantastic even though I doubt I'd ever prepare very many of them. The reason I wouldn't prepare too many is that it would take 5 or 6 to make a meal of any substance. They're all basically side dishes, vegetable heavy, that you'd have with a plate of pasta or a pizza and like most Americans, I don't eat that way.Yes, a Pizza Margherita with a side of Shaved Asparagus with Parmigiano Reggiano and another side of Peas with Mint and another side of Chickpeas with Leeks...
Great sections with overviews on cheeses and meats. I've made several of the recipes and they are simple, easy. I made the pizzas and couldn't believe how good they were!
Easy recipes, but only for certain limited definitions of easy. Easy if you live in Italy. Easy if you have access to a large Italian market with lots of fiddly custom ingredients. Easy if you already know what the myriad of fiddly ingredients already are.Most of the recipes included an ingredient that I would have to research. If I have to put the book down and go to the internet to search, then the book has already failed me. There is a glossary, but there are no internal cross-references to p...
BJ and I love watching Food Network together at night. The only problem is that we get hungry and want to make food at 10:00pm!Anyway, when I saw this book by Mario Batali at the library, I thought I'd try it out. It has beautiful pictures, but for the most part the recipes really didn't appeal to me. I like to think of myself as somewhat adventurous, but unfortunately my kids prefer things a little more basic. ;) I'll take a few recipes, but for the most part this book will go back to the libra...
I love this cookbook! I've been making tons of the recipes from it, and they are all good so far. The great thing is that they aren't your typical "Italian" recipes, they are simple, fast, and have a taste quite a bit different than your typical American take on Italian.Last night I made "preserved tuna" along with a delightful eggplant bruschetta. I've also seriously enjoyed the tomato anchovy sauce on penne.
This cookbook was touted as one for the home cook who wanted to make easy Italian dishes. But the ingredients list for most of the recipes was far out of my league. The only section of the cookbook that looked accessible and appetizing was the section on gelati. I'd look elsewhere for Italian recipes.
If you don't know by now that Mario owns this shit, you clearly must be some kind of cooking douchebag. You don't respect? Then you and Giada Di Laurentiis can fuck off and go talk about puking after dinner to keep slim or whatever it is she thinks she's talking about. Wow, I'm feeling snarky as hell today.
Although I liked the recipes, I didn't like the layout of the book. I like when cookbooks have pictures and the recipe side by side. This one had lots of pictures in a row, and then recipes followed.
This is my favourite Italian cookbook. I love Mario, and his recipes are authentic. I'd give this a 4/5 because some of the recipes are difficult, and require really specific ingredients. All of the ones we've tried are amazing though, so I'd highly recommend it!
I love reading cookbooks like novels. I can pick them up, picture the recipe and ingredients, learn new techniques and such. I think this was a 1.99 and I go back to it again and again. Good for the money.
all of the food looked so good i love pasta and all of that but much of what was in this cookbook was things that i would not cook for myself i would however might try it if someone else made if for me
Love almost everything we have tried. The pizza is a lot of fun and is great.