It's back to basics on comfort food for company. If you are having people over for dinner the shortcut to making them feel right at home is to serve comfort food. It's warming, delicious, totally unexpected, and always works. Ina makes a comfort dinner to go for a friend who is renovating her kitchen. On the menu: Company Pot Roast and Baked Potatoes With Yogurt and Sour Cream Dressing. This is comfort food for company with the volume turned up.
Years ago Ina hosted her friend's wedding in East Hampton. Ina recreates the day with an updated menu of Marinated Rack of Lamb, Orzo with Roasted Vegetables and Parmesan Roasted Asparagus. The real surprise is Ina's spin on the original wedding cake.
Everyone loves candy and kid's party food. Ina's making Chocolate Truffles for the grown ups, fruit juice shapes for the kids, caramel sauce and lots of candies. And for the main course Ina prepares Parmesan Chicken and Broccoli and Bowties.
Salmon Sandwiches, Buffalo wings, Blue Cheese Dip, mouth watering Lemon Bars, Caesar and Carrot Salads - all on the menu for a picnic at the pond. This is portable food at its best. Food that travels well and tastes just as good as when it was made.
It's off to the movies with her friends and then back for comforting Penne with Five Cheeses, a Balsamic Onion Salad, Sidecar cocktails and Stewed Berries with Ice Cream for desert. This is a high impact low maintenance meal.
Ina is holding a joint party with a friends . She is doing most of the cooking, crab strudel, maple baked beans and poached fruit. Her friend is providing the setting, doing the table and buying a spiral baked ham to serve with the beans. This is entertaining shared made fun and easy.
Ina Garten's cutting straight to sweet with delicious make-ahead and very professional fruit desserts. There's a twist on a classic with Apple Pie Bars, then pure comfort meets wow factor in Chocolate Banana Cream Pie. Easy and elegant Stewed Rhubarb and Red Berries make a perfect summer dessert, with ideas for amping things up with fruit liqueurs. Finally, there's a Sparkling Grapefruit Granita that's guaranteed to impress.
It's eggs all the way in an incredible master class, featuring them both soft boiled and in the dressing of a fantastic Caesar Salad with Blue Cheese and Bacon. Egg whites are whipped to perfection for a Pavlova Fruit Tart, then there's foolproof Truffled Scrambled Eggs. She makes Eggs Benedict with an Easy Hollandaise Sauce just like a pro, and super chef Jose Andres reveals the secret of his perfectly fried eggs.