Wild Women Throw a Party or Hay Day Country Market Cookbook

Wild Women Throw a Party: 110 Original Recipes and Amazing Menus for Birthday Bashes, Power Showers, Poker Soirees, and Celebrations Galore

Author: Lynette Rohrer Shirk

Get ready, Rachael Ray! The good time gals who inspired the parties featured in this little book can show you a thing or two about throwing a smashing bash. Icons and iconoclasts, no one knows how to party like a Wild Woman. They can bring home the bacon, fry it up, and entertain you all at the same time. Part how-to, part history, and 100% hilarious, Wild Women Throw a Party is the glamour gourmet's guide to really good times.

With wit dryer than a dirty martini, four-star chef Lynette Shirk shares stories, anecdotes, historical facts, recipes, and favorite foods inspired by well-known Wild Women, from Dorothy Parker to Sarah Jessica Parker. Themes and menus include Silver Screen Queens' Oscar Night, Mother's Day "Mommie Dearest" Breakfast with Joan Crawford, and Mary Pickford's Picnic at Pickfair. Try Sophia Loren's Pasta Pajama Party, or get gnarly at Doris Duke's Surf Party. From Dollywood to Hollywood, these dazzling dames and sassy sauciers know how to sling spaghetti, toss any salad, and dish up the desserts.

Ann Weber - Library Journal

A cross between a cookbook and a historic Peoplemagazine, this book from master chef Shirk encompasses both easy recipes for entertaining and stories about past and present celebrities. There are five basic party themes and 26 distinct affairs, and as this work is all about parties, many of the recipes are for hors d'oeuvres and finger foods. Tales about well-known "wild" women are loosely related to the themes in each chapter. The recipes are simple and coordinate well with one another within the same menu. One menu suggests purchasing entrée dishes from a restaurant, deli, or grocery store, while the hostess focuses her limited time on a special dessert. Although the book title and chapter titles imply the book is for women, it would be a good starter cookbook for men, especially those wishing to throw a carefree party. Recommended for libraries looking for basic party cookbooks.

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Hay Day Country Market Cookbook

Author: Kim Rizk

Since 1978, when the first of its country markets opened in Westport, Connecticut, Hay Day has been a celebrated purveyor of the finest farmstand produce, breads, pastries, cheeses, comestibles, provisions, and take-out fare. Twenty years later, after having helped shape America's culinary revolution, Hay Day presents 250 of the recipes that keep its customers coming back again and again. Reflecting its passion for quality, freshness, inventiveness, and character, The Hay Day Country Market Cookbook mirrors the way the country cooks and eats today. It's not about trends or gimmicks, but about ingredients and a love for sound, deep, palate-pleasing flavor. About the delicious simplicity of Veal Chops in Mustard Sauce, the tangy surprise of Lemon Chevre Chicken, the perfection of the perfect Maryland Crab Cake. It's about the sophisticated--Wilted Radicchio with Gorgonzola and Walnuts--and the down-to-earth--Chunky Tomato and Bacon Soup. And it's about the integrity of cooking in concert with the seasons--New Potatoes and Fiddlehead Ferns in spring, Grilled Duck with Citrus Cherry Relish in summer, Wild Rice and Cranberries in fall, Rosy Root Vegetable Chili for the dead of winter. Now even without a Hay Day in town, you can still get the best market-based, seasonal dishes around.

Publishers Weekly

What started out in 1978 as a single farm stand in Westport, Conn., is now a 14-store chain that reaches into New York, Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. Still very successful with its imaginative take-home food, Hay Day now reveals 250 of its most popular recipes that have captivated those indulging their increasingly cultured taste buds. Hors d'oeuvres include Tapenade and Chevre on Spears of Fresh Fennel and Belgian Endive with Smoked Trout Pate. Entree flavors can be intense as in Maple-Glazed Pork Chops with Roasted Corn Relish and Peppered Tuna with Port and Pears, and as comforting as the signature Puff Pastry-Topped Chicken Pies. An intriguing accent is added to Mediterranean Turkey Loaf, a low-fat meatloaf that includes a cup of ratatouille. Couscous Vegetable Lasagne replaces the usual sheets with the granular pasta. Another signature dish is Hay Day's Vegetable Pancakes, a fried melange of peppers, zucchini and onion bound with mashed beans and sweet potatoes. Three-Grain Salad is sturdy with wheat berries, pearl barley and millet seeds, and the repasts can be topped off with Bourbon Apple Walnut Pie or Belgian Chocolate Brownies. Not to be dismissed as simply yuppie fare, Hay Day's offerings are well-conceived and within the scope of most cooks. 50,000 first printing; 15-city author tour. (Oct.)

Table of Contents:

Great Beginnings

- These are the recipes that give any day an inspired start...

Small Pleasures

- Easy dips, spreads, salsas, and toasts are the irresistible way to welcome friends...

Soups--And a Few of Our Favorite Breads

- Soup simmering on the stove while bread bakes in the oven--it's a classic homey picture...

Salads for All Seasons

- What could be more versatile than a salad?

The Main Attraction

- An inventive and full-range collection of dishes that make your table the one to be at when dinner is served...

A Harvest of Vegetables and Grains

- Oven-Roasted Beets, Red Onions, and Oranges, Spring Pea Medley, Buttermilk-Chive Mashed Potatoes, Grilled Ratatouille Vegetables...

Sweet Endings

- Good meals should come to great endings and these endings are exceptional.

The Pantry

- Here are the basics, the recipes that helped make Hay Day's reputation.