Molto Batali: Simple Family Meals from My Home to Yours

I have always wanted a cookbook from Batali. I am a Chew fan and I like what he cooks on the show. I went to the library and picked up several of his cookbooks. This is the one I chose to order and have forever and ever on my shelf.It has a lot of recipes of things I Have never heard of. Perhaps everything "Italian" isn't spaghetti sauce or Alfredo based. What???? There are actually a lot of healthier options which is good. Some of them, however, are things that are hard to find or involve several steps. This is not your come home on a weeknight and cook something real fast cookbook. But, It is great for a special meal for a dinner party. There is not an actual recipe that I have seen for "spaghetti sauce". There are a couple for several variations of red sauce though. Maybe that is what real Italians call Spaghetti sauce??? I don't know.I did make several of the noodles in this book and all have turned out great! He goes into great detail on the different variations and shapes of the noodles. Yes, they're all the same basic ingredients wise but different shapes hold different purposes and make flavors come out different ways.I think its a good staple for an Italian cookbook. It is kind of wordy but I guess the book fits his personality :)

I was so happy to get the three of his books on a steal. I remembered I started watching Mario when I first went off to school, I thought his show was about the best show food network had beside Martha Stewart, The Galloping gourmet,Emeril, Bobby Flay Rachel Ray his books are all (the ones I bought) beautiful

Las recetas son fabulosas y además, la impresión es muy buena

Excellent cookbook. So many times I find recipes in cookbooks calling for ingredients that either I don't know or are not readily available. Not the case with this cookbook. The recipes are interestingly different. Good pictures. Book is arranged by month menus.I originally checked this book out of the local library. Liked it so well I bought it as a gift for my culinary want-to-be friend. She is very happy with it.

Let me first say that I am a big fan of Mario Batali. This cookbook, however, is extremely disappointing. I have all of his cookbooks and over 100 other Italian cookbooks and believe this to be one of the worst in my collection. After just cooking four straight days out of the book, my entire family has been disappointed with the results. The ingredients are off, the cooking times dont make sense and he inexplicably uses toasted breadcrumbs on so many different pasta recipes it is both mystifying and frustrating. On every recipe I cooked from the book (except the clementine lamb) I had to adjust cooking times. Also, just look at the table of contents, every meat dish is a shank or roast. No fish, limited poultry. Big meat, poorly cooked. Pasta lacking flavor and complexity. Mario is off his game and should be embarrassed by this effort. If you like him, as I do, go to Lupa in Soho New York. Dont buy his cookbooks until he gets it back together again. Mario, shame on you.

So you just need to adjust quantities accordingly. Outstanding vegetable recipes. I am celiac so I just substitute gluten free rice pastas (Tinkyada and you can order at an great price per case from Amazon)in some of the recipes. Who knew Italian could be so interesting? Best cookbook I have bought in years. Excellent value for the $. Would make a great gift for any experience level.

While I don't agree with Batali's self righteous political gibberish, In all fairness, I must admit that this is a very good collection of authentic Italian recipes and techniques. A very good book, indeed!

Book is awesome

I found this book interesting and the recipes I did use worked well. The ingredients in many recipes were exotic and/or expensive and for that reason I did not use this cookbook as much I hoped to.

The recipies are easy to follow and i really like how clear he about the dish.I will keep buying his books.

Beautiful book with beautiful pictures and amazing recipees...I tried a couple of the recipes and they were DELICIOUS....I would have given the book 4.5 stars if I could...One negative book: not lots of fish recipes..

Returned it. Very average!

Amazing recipes, with fairly easy to attain ingredients.