"Valerie's Home Cooking: More than 100 Delicious Recipes to Share with Friends and Family"--actress and chef Valerie Bertinelli shares recipes inspired by her own family's cooking legacy

Valerie's Home Cooking: More than 100 Delicious Recipes to Share with Friends and Family

by  Valerie Bertinelli

As the current star of her Food Network show, Valerie's Home Cooking, and co-host of the network's Kids Baking Championship, as well as having spent years acting on television, Valerie Bertinelli has made a name for herself in households across America. But to really know Valerie, is to spend time in her kitchen. 

Inspired by her family's cooking legacy, Valerie specializes in showing fans how to make dishes their own families will love that are for the heart and soul. As she often says, there's a story behind every recipe and Valerie shares them in this gorgeous cookbook, where home cooks will find more than 100 recipes that are easy to make and innovative--they're just as fresh, vibrant and down to earth as Valerie herself. Many of these classic comforting recipes have an original twist like Bloody Mary Tea Sandwiches, Lobster BLTs, Quick Rotisserie Chicken Gumbo, and S'mores Popcorn. These mouthwatering dishes will become your go-tos, whether you're having breakfast or lunch on your own, friends are joining for last-minute cocktails and small bites, or the whole family is coming together for a hearty dinner and dessert.


MY REVIEW:  Valerie Bertinelli has a warm, accessible personal appeal which has only grown with time. She’s been a TV presence in our lives for many years, but somehow, she seems as fresh and sunny as ever. Her successful Food Network show, “Valerie’s Home Cooking”, has now generated a cookbook of the same name. She shares her home in Los Angeles with her husband, Tom, and their pets. Her description of that home goes like this: “The kitchen is light and airy…backyard includes a vegetable garden…herbs…fruit trees…and even a vineyard.” She also finds much inspiration in her family’s cooking legacy, and the more than 100 recipes in the book are collected from family, friends, travels, and Valerie’s own imagination. The beautiful photos throughout the book are bright and earth-toned as befits the California setting. Each recipe includes a commentary from Valerie, and those recipes are user-friendly in both preparation and easily-found ingredients. This is good food to be shared with good people, and, hey—have fun with “Happy Hour”. I smiled a lot while reading this cookbook—there are so many recipes that I want to try: “Egg-in-a-Bagel-Hole”; “Valerie’s Irish Coffee with Lemon Vanilla Whipped Cream”; “Bacon-Wrapped Jalapeno Shrimp with Cherry Cola BBQ Sauce”; “Chicken with Lemon Wine Sauce”; “Aunt Norma’s Sauerkraut & Pork”; “BLT Pasta”; “Vegetarian Stuffed Peppers and Tomatoes”; “Tomato Soup with Grilled Cheese Croutons”; “Broccoli Salad”; “Slow-Cooker Red Beans and Rice”; “S’mores Popcorn”; “Strawberry Love Cake”; “Holiday Applesauce Cake”; and many more wonderful dishes.

Book Copy Gratis Oxmoor House via Shelf Awareness


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Valerie Bertinelli is the host of her own daytime series Valerie’s Home Cooking and co-hosts Kids Baking Championship on the Food Network. The two-time Golden Globe award-winning actress takes her fans into her kitchen with her new cookbook “Valerie’s Home Cooking” (Oxmoor House, an imprint of Time Inc. Books, October 2017). Her fun flavor combinations, like Brown Sugar Sriracha Bacon Bites, Lobster BLTs, and Tomato Soup with Grilled Cheese Croutons, transform traditional classics into crave-worthy and exciting new dishes to enjoy with friends and family. Bertinelli first became a household name for her role as Barbara on CBS’s long-running series, One Day at a Time. Over the years, her career expanded from acting to include hosting, spokesperson, business entrepreneur and New York Times best-selling author. She has also helped develop, produce, and star in several television movies and mini-series, and in August 2012 she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She most recently starred as Melanie Moretti in TV Land’s critically acclaimed sitcom Hot in Cleveland. 

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