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Home Cooking with Jean-Georges: My Favorite Simple Recipes

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I will admit that I've only made the butternut squash with balsamic vinegar and panko topping, but wow, was it good. I feel a little silly admitting that I didn't know you could eat butternut squash seeds, but they really added to the topping. And the whole thing was a pretty healthy side for a nice piece of fish. I have my eye on several other vegetable recipes and some of the desserts. The main entrees look a little more difficult than the other recipes in the book, but I'll probably get around to trying those, too. Beautiful pictures, and a beautiful book.

Many chef's cookbooks are too fussy or esoteric to ever serve as an actual everyday inspiration in the kitchen. Not this one. Yes, it's beautiful enough to be a gift or to sit atop your coffee table, but "Home Cooking with Jean-Georges" really does seem like a guide to what a world-class chef cooks for his own family. The recipes I've tried are absolutely delicious, and most of them are absolutely doable on an average weeknight. Kudos to Jean-Georges for bringing the magic of his restaurant kitchen into everyone's home.

I am an avid cookbook collector and I tend to read them like novels. Jean-Georges has so much to share with the culinary world with this latest contribution. The recipes are clear and easy to follow. Every one I have tried so far has been excellent. There are also anecdotes into his life that are charming.

This cookbook is beautiful, and the few recipes I have cooked from it so far have been delicious and surprisingly easy to prepare. Even though Vongerichten is a big name chef, these recipes really are geared toward the home cook - the ingredients are relatively easy to track down, and the preparations, for the most part, are not especially complicated. The book's recipes are also pretty unique, so it is worth having even if you already own lots of cookbooks. If you tend to shop at farmers' markets or get produce from a CSA farm, you will find this especially useful, as it contains plenty of recipes for vegetables. The quinoa with spinach, mushrooms, and goat cheese is very quick and very tasty.

Having bought too many cookbooks that looked good while browsing, only to have many of them sit on a shelf, I now check them out from a library first. I expected another overwrought chefs cookbook but was delighted by the simplicity and the inspired seasonings. So, I have no choice now but to buy it, sigh...

Wonderful cookbook. Great pictures and easy (or at least most) recipes to follow. Tried the asparagus with shaved parm cheese with lemon zest. Big hit in my family. Also, the mac and cheese is to die for.

The book is absolutely Beatiful, although I would hardly call all the recipes easy. The book arrived in no time at all.

Read through the whole book in one sitting. Cannot waiting to try many of the recipes. I am impressed that a world renowned chef who loves his art and share his love with his family and us. Great for him to take 2 days off each week for his family and thus time to cook for them and share the recipes with us.

I pre-ordered this book in August and it arrived today, November 4, 2011. I opened and devoured it page by page -- in about an hour. I had previously made many of the recipes presented in another one of his cookbooks: "Jean-Georges: Cooking At Home with a Four-Star Chef", co-authored with Mark Bittman. While, like in most cookbooks, I like the recipes but they aren't particularly healthy, but far from being Paula Dean unhealthy. Lots of butter, heavy cream, but does use some heat providing spices and grape seed oil, too. Jean-Georges looks pretty fit to me and I have a hard time believing he eats what he says he cooks. Don't get me wrong -- he has some great recipes, but just a little bit high in fat and sodium (as suggested by the ingredients as there is no nutritional information provided with the recipes). I would really like to see a book called "Physically Fit Chefs: What WE really eat".