The Big Platter Cookbook: Cooking and Entertaining Family Style

By A. Cort Sinnes and Lou Jane Temple

In The Big Platter Cookbook, seasoned hosts and food writers Lou Jane Temple and A. Cort Sinnes serve up more than 100 full-flavored, crowd-pleasing, incredibly convenient recipes that reflect a new casual approach to cooking and entertaining. The cook can prepare these delectable meals in advance, arrange them on platters, then kick back and enjoy the party! Please your guests -- and yourself -- with soul-satisfying entrees like Cowboy Cassoulet, Bourbon and Coke Short Ribs, and Salad Nicoise with Swordfish and Black Rice. And take note of specialties like Eggplant Roll-Ups with Caramelized Onions and Cafe Lulu's Macaroni and Cheese that are perfect for either main dishes or sides. Many of the recipes are made with ease on the grill -- even a Thanksgiving turkey! -- and seafood recipes, ethnic specialties, and vegetarian entrees abound.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584793325
• ISBN13: 9781584793328
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.4" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

An essential cookbook for entertaining

The "platter approach" that is the basis for the recipes in this cookbook will help anyone who likes to cook for company. If you are among the fearless who choose to forego the caterer and boldly go into the final frontier (which is creativity), then this book will be indispensable for you in planning, cooking and serving your own dinner parties. And by the way, the recipes are fantastic too.

Stress-busting ideas

We *love* to entertain but all-too-often find ourselves at one another's throats when company arrives, striving for perfection that is, realistically, unrealistic. These two have the right idea...it's quality time with friends that matters most, but that can't happen in the quality of the food is lacking. Follow the path to ensuring both quality experiences...here is your road map. Thanks!

Delicious Times a Hundred

At last! A cookbook that guides you on how to feed a small army with style, and still have enough energy left to actually enjoy your own party. The dishes are delicious (especially love the spicy scallops), the recipes are easy to follow, and the results go beyond expectation. The professionalism of the two authors, and their sympathy for what a home chef faces, is apparent. I highly recommend this book, and am personally giving it to my entertaining friends for a holiday gift.