Broccoli is one of the green vegetables that's available year-round. Roasting the broccoli with garlic and Parmesan gives this dish great flavor.
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Mark requests this often for his birthday dinner. Nothing's easier than this roasted fish! It only takes ten minutes to make and it's good enough to serve to the fanciest company. From the Barefoot Contessa.
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Baking the shrimp means they are always perfectly done…no more rubbery, overdone shrimp! This has all the wonderful flavor of shrimp scampi, but the crunchy crust makes it so much more interesting. A squeeze of fresh lemon juice before serving gives it a perfect hit of acidity to balance the richness of all that garlic and butter.
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From Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics. I discovered that chicken meatballs mixed with good Italian sausage have great flavor and they're so much easier to make because you bake them in the oven. This rich chicken soup is filled with lots of good things: spinach, pasta, and plenty of those spicy meatballs.
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From Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics. Roasting the squash before making the soup really brings out its sweetness. And since there is spicy curry in the soup, I thought some classic bananas, coconut, and salty cashews on top would continue the Indian theme. It's so good.
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From Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics. This is a great soup to make in September when there are still tons of vine-ripened tomatoes in the market and you've eaten your fill of tomato salads. Serve with your fave grilled cheese or the accompanying Parmesan Toasts.
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I like to take something familiar and bump up the flavor with high-quality ingredients. This pudding gets its flavor from good cocoa powder and imported semisweet chocolate. It's the real thing and, surprise!, it's not much harder to make than the packaged kind, and it's sooooo much better.
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From Barefoot Contessa Parties. This is so good, so easy, and a McOmber family staple for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or Easter! Use leftovers to make ham and chutney sandwiches.
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It's important to me that lemon bars really taste like lemon. I love the way the tart citrus cuts the sweetness of the filling. I can't begin to calculate how many lemon bars Harry Goodale has made at Barefoot Contessa over the years, but they're definitely one of our best sellers.
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Remember how your mother used to get up at 4 A.M. on Thanksgiving so she could put the turkey in the oven to roast for ten hours? Forget it. A 12- to 15-pound turkey cooks in 2 to 3 hours, and you let it rest for at least 20 minutes before you carve it. Everyone will say, "This is the best turkey I ever ate."
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This ice cream tastes like one of my favorite sweets: caramel, chocolate, and pecan concoctions called "turtles". Be careful! It's so good you might not be able to stop eating it.
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Pesto is probably my favorite sauce. What’s not to love? The fresh basil (which we always have TONS of during the summer)…combined with the pine nuts and the bite of garlic…when I smell this I am SO HAPPY. I hope it makes you happy too. :)
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From Barefoot Contessa Parties! Parker Hodges is my partner and the chef at Barefoot Contessa. He grew up in Nicaragua, and he makes this scrumptious fresh salsa. It's sweet, spicy, and chunky and it's wonderful for dinner with Grilled Herb Shrimp (see Entrees section).
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This is the most delicious cake to make when strawberries are in season. It reminds me of Strawberry Shortcake! The recipe makes two 8-inch cakes.
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These are a much requested McOmber family fave! They even make the birthday dinner request list.
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From Barefoot Contessa Parties. I love to serve these smoothies instead of orange juice for Sunday breakfast. You can substitute raspberries for the mango to make banana raspberry smoothies. Yummmm. . . .
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From Ina Garten's 'The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook'. This yogurt takes only a few minutes to make. Some of the liquid is drained out of the plain yogurt and replaced with fresh orange juice to add more flavor. I love the chunkiness of all the additions. Use as a base for new flavors, such as cranberry orange or maple walnut.
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From Ina Garten's 'The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook'. If traditional hot chocolate is so delicious and comforting, I thought, why not white hot chocolate? Nothing could be easier, and it is very satisfying on a cold winter day.
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From Ina Garten's 'The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook'. Who doesn't love hot chocolate on a cold winter day? This hot chocolate has wonderful depth of flavor from two kinds of chocolate, and pure vanilla. I sometimes even serve it for dessert with whipped cream, but it's good anytime, especially for a weekend breakfast.
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From Ina Garten's 'The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook'. We all know how dry most corn muffins can be, which is why this moist and flavorful muffin is so popular. We pipe good raspberry preserves into the middle.
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