The Best of Gourmet: Featuring the Flavors of Thailand Gourmet Magazine Editors and Romulo A Yanes

Nowadays, everyone who entertains is looking for outstanding casual fare that will allow them to spend more time with their guests Dishes must be quick and easy to prepare or able to be made ahead and filled with the purest ingredients for optimum flavor The Best of Gourmet, Featuring the Flavors of Thailand is filled with twentyeight such menusmost are very relaxed, all are absolutely deliciousFor example, after a chilly day on the slopes, you may want to treat your houseguests to A Ski House Dinner Begin the evening around the fire with champagne and a large platter of eversotender smoked salmon with cilantro cream Later, roasted veal chops with shallots, tomatoes, and olive jus nestled on pillows of soft polenta make a rich, indulgent entre And before everyone retires, a heavenly warm chocolate raspberry pudding cake, made the day before and reheated, is served with a glass of cognacWhen the summer heats up, why not spend A Weekend at the Shore with friends? Youll have three clever menus in hand that take advantage of the seasons abundant fresh produce, include plenty of makeahead dishes, and satisfy hearty seaside appetites On Saturday morning you can serve Breakfast on the Beach with butteryrich baked blueberrypecan French toast Lunch Indoors includes a serveyourself composed salad of classic favorites and a lovely rhubarb rice pudding Then, after a long day in the sun, Dinner on the Deck promises a seafood meal to remember with currymarinated mussels, followed by grilled lobster with Southeast Asian dipping sauceOr perhaps a lastminute Beyond Backyard Basics dinner is closer to what you had in mind? This little gem of a menu features ratatouille with pennea heavenly jumble of roasted eggplants, onions, yellow squash, and red bell peppers, with plum tomatoes, garlic, thyme, parsley, and basil For dessert, multicolored grapes perched atop pastry cream in puff pastry shells make a scrumptious and eversopretty choiceSo which menu will you try first? Youll find more than eighty pages of exquisite fullcolor photographs to help you decide Altogether, this volume holds more than 350 recipesincluding the very best recipes that appeared in Gourmets food columns during 1999 There are hundreds of dishes that can be made in fortyfive minutes or less look for the clock symbol ð; plenty of leaner and lighter selections look for the feather symbol F; seasonal ideas for everything from apples to zucchini; and an impressive array of tempting sweets and snacksThis years Cuisines of the World section turns to the intriguing flavors of Thailand with a traditional dinner for eight and a collection of Thai snacks Dishes such as steamed red snapper with ginger, grilled beef salad, fish cakes, and coconut ice cream demonstrate the sweet, sour, hot, and salty tastes of this fascinating country Informative primers and exquisite fullcolor photos add further insightTwentyfour more brandnew recipes appear in a special section featuring Unusual Pastas and Grains From fresh rice noodles to Israeli couscous to wheat berries, and much more, these unique pantry items will undoubtedly expand your palette of flavorsJust when you thought you had tasted it all, along comes a cookbook that opens up a world of new possibilitiesThe Best of Gourmet ISBN10: 0375504311 ISBN13: 9780375504310Material Type: hardcover