Cristina Ferrare's Big Bowl of Love: Delight Family and Friends with More than 150 Simple, Fabulous Recipes

by Cristina Ferrare

Overview

The New York Times bestselling author and cooking show host shares 150+ delicious and satisfying recipes for bringing people together.

Family, friends, cooking, and food are a passion for Cristina Ferrare. And she brings that irrepressible enthusiasm to A Big Bowl of Love, a homey collection of recipes for everyday meals and celebrations. From appetizers and soups to pastas, risottos, and hearty entrees, each dish has been tested, enjoyed, and cherished around Cristina’s table—as well as by viewers of her popular cooking series, Cooking with Cristina, featured on the Oprah Winfrey Network.

Beyond the recipes themselves, this busy professional, wife, and mother shows readers how to shop, set up a pantry, and use “cook once, eat twice” recipes to make preparing and enjoying meals easy and fun.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402788833
Publisher:	Union Square & Co.
Publication date:	11/22/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	519
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Cristina Ferrare is the author of two New York Times best-selling books and was featured in a series of cooking segments on Oprah.com entitled Cooking with Cristina. She began her career as a model that graced the covers of every major fashion magazine including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Cosmopolitan, and was a spokesperson for Max Factor. Cristina co-hosted AM Los Angeles, the highest-rated morning television show during her five-year tenure, and hosted Cristina and Friends and Home and Family. She was a substitute co-host on Good Morning America and co-hosted with Regis Philbin on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee. Her primetime series for CBS, Shame on You, was one of the first magazine format shows that featured consumer fraud and awareness. Cristina is also an entrepreneur whose successful lifestyle home décor company--Ferrare With Company--is distributed not only in more than 100 stores in the United States but internationally, as well.

What People are Saying About This

Oprah Winfrey

"Cristina is probably the best cook I've ever met, other than Maya Angelou and my own mother. She's cooked three Christmas dinners for 80 people, and I was sitting at the table for all of them." --(Oprah Winfrey)

Recipe

ROASTED CHICKEN WRAPS WITH BLACK BEAN SALSA, ARUGULA, AND GUACAMOLE

6 SERVINGS

This chicken wrap is another one of those reasons I always have a roasted chicken on hand in my refrigerator.

I start my meal by serving a bowl of soup, tortilla soup is perfect, and then serve these wraps filled to the brim for lunch or dinner.I often bring these wraps for lunch on a plane when I’m traveling, and they worked well as school lunches for the kids.

2 to 3 tablespoons Black Bean Salsa (page 276)
2 tablespoons Guacamole (page 19)
6 flour or whole wheat tortillas
2 roasted chicken breasts, diced
4–5 cups arugula leaves

Keep the black bean salsa and guacamole in the refrigerator until you’re ready to assemble the wraps. Preheat the oven to 325°F.
Wrap the tortillas in foil, and heat for 15 minutes. Turn off the oven, but leave the tortillas in the oven to keep them warm until you’re ready to use them.
To assemble each wrap, place 1 tortilla on a warm plate. Keep the remaining tortillas covered. Spread 2 tablespoons guacamole over the entire tortilla. Add ¼ cup of chicken to the bottom third of the tortilla. Place 3 tablespoons bean salsa and 6 to 10 leaves of arugula on top. Roll the tortilla over once, and fold the sides in tightly. Fold into a burrito shape. With the seam side down, place on a cutting board and cut with a sharp knife on the diagonal.
Serve with a generous dollop of guacamole, sour cream, and salsa

Editorial Reviews

Rather than sending cooks to the market for exotic ingredients, Ferrare (Cristina Ferrare's Family Entertaining) relies on items that many already have on hand, in her latest book, named after her cooking show on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Tuscan Bread Soup, for example, calls for chicken stock, canned crushed tomatoes, and day-old bread. Other recipes include Baked Sweet Potato Fries and Chocolate Valentine from the Heart (a delicious, rich chocolate cake, perfectly topped with pecans). Expect demand.

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