Bridget Lancaster - Cooking at Home With Bridget & Julia: The TV Hosts of Americas Test Kitchen Share Their Favorite Recipes for Feeding Family and Friends

Copyright 2017

by Bridget Lancaster, Julia Collin Davison, and the Editors at Americas Test Kitchen

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Lancaster, Bridget, author. | Davison, Julia Collin, author. | Americas Test Kitchen (Firm)

Title: Cooking at home with Bridget & Julia : the tv hosts of Americas test kitchen share their favorite recipes for feeding family and friends / Bridget Lancaster, Julia Collin Davison, and the editors at Americas Test Kitchen.

Other titles: Americas test kitchen (Television program)

Description: Boston, MA : Americas Test Kitchen, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017018306 | ISBN 9781945256165 (alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Cooking. | LCGFT: Cookbooks.

Classification: LCC TX714 .L3396 2017 | DDC 641.5--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017018306

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WARDROBE Honah Lee Milne

HAIR Jennifer Tawa, Patrice Vinci Salon, and Grace Callan

MAKEUP Claudia Moriel

PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Guy Rochford

SENIOR PRODUCTION MANAGER Jessica Lindheimer Quirk

PRODUCTION MANAGER Christine Walsh

IMAGING MANAGER Lauren Robbins

PRODUCTION AND IMAGING SPECIALISTS Heather Dube, Dennis Noble, and Jessica Voas

COPY EDITOR Cheryl Redmond

PROOFREADER Jane Tunks Demel

INDEXER Elizabeth Parson

Bridget and Julia filming season 17 of the TV show.

a note from bridget and julia

Weve kind of grown up here at Americas Test Kitchen. We started cooking and developing recipes during the test kitchens early days, when we were just starting our careers. Now, nearly 20 years later, we are the hosts of the companys two hugely popular TV shows. Along the way, weve developed a lot of recipes and cooked hundreds more on set. People always ask us which recipes are our favorites and why. Our new special collection,Cooking at Home with Bridget and Julia, answers that very question. It features 150 recipes (75 from each of us) from the test kitchens archives that we cook at home time and time again. The process of choosing and writing about these recipes has led us on an interesting journey because the recipes we love are connected to how and where we were raised, where we have traveled, and what we like to cook for our husbands and children. So youll learn more about us by reading this book. Personal facts abound in the narratives accompanying each recipe, like how Bridget became addicted to Indian food on a trip to Scotland to meet her future husbands parents, which is why she picked Chicken Tikka Masala. A family trip to Tuscany in her teens showed Julia the power of a simple fresh tomato sauce, which is why she chose Skillet Campanelle with Fresh Tomato Sauce, a recipe that brings her back to that time and place whenever she makes it.

Cooking for us is about feeding family and friends. And since we like to pull out all the stops on occasion, youll find a chapter devoted to holiday celebrations as well as one covering casual entertaining. We tell you which appetizers make the cut for our parties (Bacon and Chive Deviled Eggs and Stuffed Mushrooms with Boursin and Prosciutto); which main courses never disappoint (Pasta with Classic Bolognese and Slow-Roasted Pork Shoulder with Peach Sauce); which stunning desserts are a must on our holiday table (Coconut Layer Cake and Goat Cheese and Lemon Cheesecake with Hazelnut Crust); and much, much more. In addition, as working mothers, we have to put dinner on the table every night so we appreciate rock-solid, easy-to-execute recipes: Spaghetti with Turkey-Pesto Meatballs is on heavy rotation at Julias house while Thai Pork Lettuce Wraps are a favorite of Bridgets two sons. Youll find these recipes and more among the home-style dinners, while the weekend breakfast chapter tells you just what we like to eat on a lazy Sunday morning.