New England Recipes & Cookbooks

How to Cook dishes from New England

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• Apizza - A style of Neapolitan pizza that originates from New Haven in Connecticut. It is an irregularly shaped pizza topped with hard cheese and garlic, and sometimes other ingredients.
  
  
  
• Crab cakes - Patties made from crab meat, breadcrumbs, and seasonings. They are typically fried or broiled.
  
  
• Greek pizza - This style of pizza was introduced to the area by Greek immigrants. It has a thick chewy crust and is baked in a pan in the oven, rather than directly on bricks. Olive oil is used as part of the topping, and sometimes other ingredients from Greek cuisine such as feta cheese, olives, and oregano, are used as well.
  
  
• Lobster - New England as a whole, especially Maine, is famous for its lobsters.
  
  
  
• Lobster roll - Lobster meat with mayonnaise served in a grilled bun.
  
  
• New England clam chowder (also sometimes known as "Boston clam chowder" in other parts of the country) - A soup based on cream or milk. It contains clams, flour, onions, potato, and bacon or salt pork. New England clam chowder (unlike for the example the variety served in New York ("Manhattan clam chowder") never contains tomato - indeed in 1939, Maine's state legislature considered a bill to make illegal to add tomato to clam chowder.
  
  
  
• Corn chowder - A soup similar to clam chowder, but with corn and bacon replacing the clams. This dish comes from New Hampshire.
  
  
• New England boiled dinner - A meal made from cornbeef, smoked pork sausage, with assorted vegetables such as cabbage, carrot, onion, parsnip, potato, rutabaga, and turnip. Horseradish sauce, mustard, or vinegar are used as condiments when eating the meal.
  
  
• Indian pudding - A traditional New England dessert. It is made from a base milk, butter and cornmeal, sweetened with molasses, maple syrup, honey or sugar, flavored with spices including cinnamon and ginger, and often has nuts and raisins added. The mixture is slow maked for several hours and then allowed to cool. It is traditionally eaten with hard sauce (a sauce made from butter, sugar, and brandy, rum or whiskey), but nowadays it is quite often eaten with vanilla ice cream.

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Barefoot Contessa at Home: Everyday Recipes You'll Make Over and Over Again By Ina Garten Random House Released: 2006-10-24 Hardcover (256 pages) List Price: $35.00* Lowest New Price: $19.67* Lowest Used Price: $12.93* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 07:36 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Throughout the years that she has lived and worked in East Hampton, Ina Garten has catered and attended countless parties and dinners. She will be the first to tell you, though, that nothing beats a cozy dinner, surrounded by the people you love most, in the comfort that only your own home can provide. In Barefoot Contessa at Home, Ina shares her life in East Hampton, the recipes she loves, and her secrets to making guests feel welcome and comfortable. For Ina, it’s friends and family–gathered around the dinner table or cooking with her in the kitchen–that really make her house feel like home. Here Ina offers the tried-and-true recipes that she makes over and over again because they’re easy, they work, and they’re universally loved. For a leisurely Sunday breakfast, she has Easy Cheese Danishes or Breakfast Fruit Crunch to serve with the perfect Spicy Bloody Mary. For lunch, she has classics with a twist, such as Tomato, Mozzarella, and Pesto Paninis and Old-Fashioned Potato Salad, which are simply delicious. Then there are Ina’s homey dinners–from her own version of loin of pork stuffed with sautéed fennel to the exotic flavors of Eli’s Asian Salmon. And since Ina knows no one ever forgets what you serve for dessert, she includes recipes for outrageously luscious sweets like Peach and Blueberry Crumble, Pumpkin Mousse Parfait, and Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Icing. Ina also lets readers in on her time-tested secrets for cooking and entertaining. Get the inside scoop on everything from what Ina considers when she’s designing a kitchen to menu-planning basics and how to make a dinner party fun (here’s a hint: it doesn’t involve making complicated food!). Along with beautiful photographs of Ina’s dishes, her home, and the East Hampton she loves, this book is filled with signature recipes that strike the perfect balance between elegance and casual comfort. With her most indispensable collection yet, Ina Garten proves beyond a shadow of doubt that there truly is no place like home.

A Life in Balance: Delicious Plant-based Recipes for Optimal Health By Meg Wolff Down East Books Paperback (160 pages) List Price: $19.95* Lowest New Price: $12.05* Lowest Used Price: $11.88* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 07:36 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: The first title in Down East Books' 'Best Maine Food' series, this inspirational cookbook proves that good food fosters good health. When conventional medical treatments couldn't stop Meg Wolff's breast cancer in 1998, doctors told her to prepare her soul. Instead, she began a diet based on whole grains, vegetables and beans - and started getting better. Now vibrantly healthy, Meg is living proof that changing your diet can indeed save your life. This cookbook is full of Meg's easy, delicious recipes and information to help inspire readers to eat better, and live better. Contains recipes from a variety of contributors including NBA great John Salley and Dr. Neal Barnard, head of the Physicians for Responsible Medicine.

Simple to Spectacular: How to Take One Basic Recipe to Four Levels of Sophistication By Jean-Georges Vongerichten Clarkson Potter Released: 2000-10-10 Hardcover (432 pages) List Price: $45.00* Lowest New Price: $23.99* Lowest Used Price: $8.46* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 07:36 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: What happens when a four-star chef and a culinary minimalist decide to join forces to create something different? They invent a new style that adapts to every occasion and every level of cooking expertise. Simple to Spectacular introduces a unique concept developed by one of the world's top chefs, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, and Mark Bittman, author of How to Cook Everything and the New York Times's hugely popular column "The Minimalist." Ever since their award-winning collaboration on Jean-Georges: Cooking at Home with a Four-Star Chef, the acclaimed duo has been cooking up a repertoire of new dishes that can be prepared in any of five progressively sophisticated ways. Simple to Spectacular features a total of 250 recipes in 50 groups. Each group begins with a simple, elegant recipe--a few ingredients combined for maximum effect--followed by fully detailed, increasingly elaborate variations. For example, a recipe for Grilled Shrimp with Thyme and Lemon leads to Grilled Shrimp and Zucchini on Rosemary Skewers, Grilled Shrimp with Apple Ketchup, Thai-style Grilled Shrimp on Lemongrass Skewers, and Grilled Shrimp Balls with Cucumber and Yogurt. Every aspect of the meal is covered, from superb soups and salads to unforgettable side dishes, entrees, and desserts. In Simple to Spectacular, everything--from the basics to innovations by a four-star chef--is tailored for a quick Tuesday night dinner or an elegant weekend party.  And in the now-classic Vongerichten-Bittman style, all of the recipes can be made in the kitchen of any home cook. With 80 full-color photographs giving a mouthwatering view of the Simple-to-Spectacular transformations, readers and cooks will eagerly explore the possibilities.Jean-Georges Vongerichten (right) won the 1998 James Beard Award for Outstanding Chef and Best New Restaurant. His Manhattan restaurants include Vong, Jo Jo, The Mercer Kitchen, and Jean Georges, which earned a rare four-star rating from the New York Times.   In Simple to Spectacular, two titans of the food world have created a truly groundbreaking cookbook.  Here are 250 superb recipes arranged in a uniquely useful way: a basic recipe and four increasingly sophisticated variations, with each group (there are 50 groups in all) based on a given technique.  This ingenious organization enables cooks of all levels of expertise to understand how a recipe is created and to re-create the brilliantly simple recipes and dazzling variations from one of our best food writers and home cooks teamed with one of America's greatest chefs.

Making Whoopies: The Official Whoopie Pie Book By Nancy Griffin Down East Books Paperback (88 pages) List Price: $12.95* Lowest New Price: $7.64* Lowest Used Price: $2.50* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 07:36 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Whoopie pies could be declared the official Maine dessert, and many assert that the rotund chocolate confection originated there, although Pennsylvania actually has a an equally strong claim to that honor. No matter-aficionados in both locales never tire of the giant sandwich cookies, and the comfort-food treats are enjoying a renaissance as bakeries offer gourmet versions on the Internet. This little book is a wide-ranging, lighthearted look at whoopie pies and the folks who love them. This book contains 16 recipes including healthy, gluten-free, and zucchini whoopie pies!

Nantucket Open-House Cookbook By Sarah Leah Chase Workman Publishing Company Paperback (336 pages) List Price: $15.95* Lowest New Price: $69.99* Lowest Used Price: $0.18* *(As of 07:36 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Sarah Leah Chase, co-author of The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook, knows that summer means long, lazy days of fun and getting together, of throwing the doors open and inviting over everyone you know for the pleasures of good company and good food. Now, cooks everywhere can create more than 250 of the recipes that have drawn hungry visitors and residents to her popular gourmet shop, Que Sera Sarah on Nantucket Island. The author's eclectic combinations center on the freshest of seafood and produce, and induce hearty summer appetites to indulge in a unique chilled clam chowder, a fresh beachfront salad of Scallops with Orange and Chervil Vinaigrette, savory empanadas and turnovers, or a beautifully grilled bluefish redolent with lavender. Sumptuous meals must end with the proper desserts: an extravagantly rich Chocolate Bombe or a fruit tart glistening with a fortune of fresh raspberries and blueberries. Complete with just-baked muffins and breads for breakfasts best enjoyed in a huge wicker chair and cool summer drinks for whiling away long afternoons, Nantucket Open-House Cookbook is for anyone who wants to make the most of fair-weather dining all year round. Over 214,000 copies in print.

The Tasha Tudor Cookbook: Recipes and Reminiscences from Corgi Cottage By Tasha Tudor Little, Brown and Company Hardcover (144 pages) List Price: $26.99* Lowest New Price: $8.99* Lowest Used Price: $6.50* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 07:36 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Tasha Tudor, beloved children's book author and illustrator, has at last written her long-awaited cookbook. In words and the enchanting watercolors for which she is renowned, she shares the recipes she has gathered over a lifetime - some that have been passed down for generations and some that she created specially for her children and grandchildren. These traditional recipes recall an old-fashioned New England lifestyle and summon up Tasha Tudor's own warm family memories, which she shares here with her readers. Tasha Tudor's recipe collection includes summery picnic salads, hearty winter soups, and breakfast treats like Great-Grandmother Tudor's Cornbread, Blueberry Coffee Cake, and Butterscotch Rolls. Her main dishes - Roast Chicken with tarragon and sage, vegetable-laden Beef Stew, and Salmon served with homegrown peas - are the prelude to her irresistibly rich desserts, including a luscious dark chocolate torte and English Toffee Bars. At Tasha Tudor's Corgi Cottage, Christmas celebrations are the high point of the year, filled with the kind of food and wholesome fun that harks back to an earlier time. Her recipes bring family and friends together to make her well-known gingerbread Christmas tree ornaments (which have been displayed on the White House tree), and such seasonal favorites as thumb cookies and pulled taffy for wrapping as gifts or for putting in paper cornucopias to hang on the tree. All of these authentic, tried-and-true recipes are presented for the first time with some fifty original watercolor and pen-and-ink drawings in this beguiling keepsake kitchen companion.

Barefoot Contessa Cookbook Collection: The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, Barefoot Contessa Parties!, and Barefoot Contessa Family Style By Ina Garten Clarkson Potter Released: 2010-11-30 Hardcover List Price: $99.99* Lowest New Price: $48.53* Lowest Used Price: $51.32* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 07:36 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: In her first ever boxed set, bestselling cookbook author and Food Network star Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa, unites her initial three titles in one beautiful package.             Here are the books that started it all for Ina Garten, who turned a passion for food into a successful specialty food store in the Hamptons and is now beloved by millions for her Barefoot Contessa television show and cookbooks. The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, Ina's first book, has all of the fabulous, easy recipes that won Ina a loyal following at her retail shop, including Perfect Roast Chicken, French Potato Salad, and those irresistible Coconut Cupcakes. In Barefoot Contessa Parties! Ina shares her very best menus, divided by season, for fuss-free yet gorgeous entertaining, from a summer garden lunch for eight to an intimate fireside dinner for two. Barefoot Contessa Family Style is full of crowd-pleasers you'll make again and again, like roasted asparagus showered with freshly grated Parmesan and a French toast made with challah and just the right amount of grated orange zest and pure vanilla extract to make it sing.     Together, these three titles form a timeless collection perfect for every home cook, whether accomplished or amateur, and for every occasion, whether a weeknight dinner with family or a larger, more festive gathering. With stunning photography and Ina's helpful tips, this boxed set makes the perfect gift for those who love to cook.

The Summer Shack Cookbook: The Complete Guide to Shore Food By Jasper White W. W. Norton & Company Hardcover (384 pages) List Price: $35.00* Lowest New Price: $15.00* Lowest Used Price: $6.98* *(As of 07:36 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: The flavors and foods of summer in your kitchen all year long. Roll up your sleeves; pile up your plate with boiled shrimp, steamed mussels, and fried clams; and enjoy the tastes of summer with New England's premier seafood expert Jasper White, the chef and owner of the four Summer Shack restaurants. In this collection of over 200 easy-to-make seafood dishes such as Caribbean Callaloo, Lobster Rolls, and Portuguese Fisherman's Stew, along with classics like Fried Chicken and Strawberry Pie, White shows you how to prepare summertime favorites that bring the style, fun, and flavors of the shore to your table all year long—without any fuss. Whether you're entertaining friends for a casual meal or relaxing on a family vacation, you'll find meals that are as simple to make as they are to enjoy. With an illustrated guide to basics like shucking clams, eating lobster, and boning a bluefish, The Summer Shack Cookbook will be transporting even the most landlocked cooks to the shore in no time. 24 pages of color illustrations; 50 drawings

Bistro Cooking at Home By Gordon Hamersley Clarkson Potter Released: 2003-10-14 Hardcover (352 pages) List Price: $35.00* Lowest New Price: $20.00* Lowest Used Price: $11.99* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 07:36 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Bistro cooking—bold and full-flavored—is more like the best home cooking than restaurant fare, featuring slow-cooked stews, exquisitely roasted chickens, perfectly seared steaks, vibrant salads, fresh fruit tarts, and comforting custards. Now Gordon Hamersley of acclaimed Hamersley’s Bistro in Boston helps home cooks bring these classic dishes into their own kitchens. Bistro Cooking at Home offers a complete menu of versatile selections for cooks who crave sophisticated but easy-to-prepare comfort food. Many of the dishes allow for “walk-away cooking,” such as stews, roasts, or braises. And many of these same dishes taste best if prepared a day or two ahead, making entertaining foolproof. Although the accent is French, dishes such as hamburgers stuffed with blue cheese and Pear Cranberry Crumble reflect Gordon Hamersley’s all-American roots. Start a bistro meal at home with Hamersley’s classic Onion Soup au Gratin or signature Wild Mushroom and Roasted Garlic Sandwich. For a main course there is roast chicken (you can cook it ahead and reheat it under the broiler), New England Bouillabaisse with Rouille and Croutons, or Moroccan lamb shanks. Pasta, polenta, and risotto are given French finesse in dishes such as Lemon-Scented Risotto with Morels and Chives and Oven-Baked Penne with Onions, Walnuts, and Goat Cheese. The Savory Tarts, Gratins, and Galettes chapter holds such richly satisfying dishes as Portobello Mushroom and Roquefort Galette or Creamy Bistro Potato and Leek Gratin, each practically a meal in itself. Even vegetables are made exciting in dishes ranging from Roasted Artichokes with Garlic and Pancetta Bread Crumbs to Garlicky Mashed Potato Cakes. Bistro-inspired desserts include Maple Crème Brûlée, Profiteroles with Easy Chocolate Sauce, and a dense Chocolate Truffle Cake. All the main dishes are accompanied by knowledgeable, down-to-earth wine recommendations from Fiona Hamersley, Gordon’s wife, who runs the wine service at the restaurant. With the Hamersleys’s expert guidance every step of the way, you can re-create the romance of bistro dining—at home.