Simply Sauté: Fast, Easy, and Healthy Italian Cooking -- All in One Pan (Paperback)

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Biscotti restaurant chef-owner Bianco provides this in-depth exploration of what she considers an underused home cooking technique-sautéing. All recipes in this volume, which range from Pizza Puttanesca with Asiago cheese to Bananas in Cream and Hazelnut Liqueur, are inspired by dishes served at her Italian eatery in Ridgefield, Conn., and all are sautéed. Sautéing, she says, is a fast, flavorful and easy way to cook. "Almost anything can be added to or eliminated from the sauté pan... so if you have a finicky family member with odd requests sauté cooking will let you simply respond, 'Yes, dear.'" She begins with a helpful primer on the basics of the sautéing, and includes among the recipes brief commentary on various ingredients and techniques such as tossing pasta and roasting peppers. Bianco's amiable writing complements the homey recipes and the tales from her life and cooking career.
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Product Description

Would you cook great Italian food every day if it didn’t mean spending hours in the kitchen preparing it? Chef-restaurateur Silvia Bianco shows how to whip up exciting Italian meals in a single skillet in forty minutes or less using the saute method of cooking that professional chefs use to get delicious food on the table fast. With a foreword by noted New York chef Bobby Flay, and 16 pages of color photographs and drawings, Bianco walks readers through basic saute techniques and shows how to make the easy-to-prepare (and freeze) stock sauces and broths that are the key to creating saute magic. Saute appetizers, pizza, poultry, meat, seafood, and desserts are each covered in its own chapter, and Bianco offers more than fifteen low-fat saute recipes. Each of the nearly one hundred recipes reflects Bianco’s very personal cooking style, first developed as a young child in her grandmother’s kitchen in Calabria, Italy. Simply Saute will appeal to today’s busy cooks who are looking for new ways to prepare meals simply, as well as those looking to create a restaurant experience at home without a lot of fuss.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Da Capo Press; illustrated edition edition (October 27, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569245614
• ISBN-13: 978-1569245613
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #832,559 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars simply saute, November 19, 2003

By A Customer

Hard to believe that you can create such mouth watering meals in one pan....and so quickly! The ease of cooking gives the working person the opportunity to prepare a meal that looks AND tastes like it just came home from their favorite upscale restaurant. The "icing on the cake"..... is that the recipes feature ingredients that are healthy.
I am a "dessert-aholic", and the fruit desserts are wonderful! (I don't even miss the icing!)
Chef Silvia's presentations are fun to read, easy to prepare, delicious to taste!!!!A stellar gift!!!!!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy and Delicious, October 21, 2003

By A Customer

Impressively easy to follow the chef's direction and make delicious meals in less than thirty minutes. Different way of looking at Italian food that takes good classic recipes and makes them interesting, unique, and easy to prepare.

Bottom line is this a great cookbook providing even novice cook's with the ability to appear a pro in the kitchen!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy, Humorous and Delicious!, October 20, 2003

By A Customer

Loved the easy layout. Was very humourous, especially compared to usually very stiff and dry recipe standards in most cookbooks. Chef Silvia has a very easy to follow style and her light hearted and informational asides give teriffic insight into her innate food knowledge.
Had family over for extended get together and college student niece made two dishes from Simply Saute'. We all loved them and the whole family wants the book! I'm telling you this is easy stuff and it really is Delicious!