Product Description

Allysa Torey’s Magnolia Bakery in New York City is the place to get all-American sweet treats, like their famous pastel frosted cupcakes. But at her country home in upstate New York, Allysa cooks a lot more than desserts. Now, in this full-color cookbook, she shares more than 90 of her favorite recipes for everyday meals—and invites you to experience the delights of country living, Allysa Torey–style.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #120455 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 176 pages

Amazon.com
A Greenwich Village landmark, the Magnolia Bakery features homemade desserts that people line up for. Recipes from the famous store were featured in The Magnolia Bakery Cookbook by Magnolia owner, Alyssa Torey. In At Home with Magnolia, she provides 90-plus all-course, all-occasion formulas--classic and original--for dishes like Chicken Kiev; Leek, Corn and Mascarpone Tart; and Gemelli with Sun-Dried Tomatoes, Artichokes, Arugula, and Yellow Pepper. This is good, simple-yet-sophisticated food with a definite lightness-of-hand; keyed to seasonal bounty, the recipes--including desserts like Cream Cheese Swirl Brownies with Heath Bars and Pecans, and Pineapple Cheesecake with White Chocolate Sauce and Macadamias--are also easy. With many color photos of the dishes and of the author on her farm (where, presumably, the recipes originated), this is just the sort of collection cooks will find themselves relying on again and again. --Arthur Boehm

From Publishers Weekly
This cheery cookbook celebrates the timeless appeal of homemade chicken and chocolate cake on the kitchen table. Torey, owner of the Magnolia Bakery and author of The Magnolia Bakery Cookbook and More from Magnolia, has built her culinary career on simple, classic recipes. Here the focus moves away from cookies and cupcakes (recently namedropped in a Saturday Night Live sketch) to the dishes she makes in her own home in upstate New York. Colorful photographs depict Torey, her partner and collie dogs in their country-style house amid vintage textiles and tableware. Torey is a believer in fresh, seasonal eating. Her homey, elemental dishes span the seasons, from light summery Eggplant with Red and Yellow Cherry Tomato Sauce to an autumnal Butternut Squash Soup with Apple and Onion. Dinners are divided up into no-fuss "weekday" and more complicated "weekend" categories. She's also included the formulas for two of her famous cupcakes: Chocolate with Butterscotch Frosting and Orange Vanilla. Torey goes easy on the text, offering minimal instruction, but these are straightforward recipes to follow, and the result is a tasty blend of nostalgia and innovation. (Oct.)
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Review
"Like the cupcakes Torey makes at Magnolia Bakery, this book is a cutie. Filled with Catskills farmscapes, it'll make any cook with a hankering for the country happy. Driven by seasonal ingredients, these recipes are company-worthy and easy to boot" (New York Daily News, December 17, 2007)

This cheery cookbook celebrates the timeless appeal of homemade chicken and chocolate cake on the kitchen table. Torey, owner of the Magnolia Bakery and author of The Magnolia Bakery Cookbook and More from Magnolia, has built her culinary career on simple, classic recipes. Here the focus moves away from cookies and cupcakes (recently namedropped in a Saturday Night Live sketch) to the dishes she makes in her own home in upstate New York. Colorful photographs depict Torey, her partner and collie dogs in their country-style house amid vintage textiles and tableware. Torey is a believer in fresh, seasonal eating. Her homey, elemental dishes span the seasons, from light summery Eggplant with Red and Yellow Cherry Tomato Sauce to an autumnal Butternut Squash Soup with Apple and Onion. Dinners are divided up into no-fuss "weekday" and more complicated "weekend" categories. She's also included the formulas for two of her famous cupcakes: Chocolate with Butterscotch Frosting and Orange Vanilla. Torey goes easy on the text, offering minimal instruction, but these are straightforward recipes to follow, and the result is a tasty blend of nostalgia and innovation. (Oct.) (Publishers Weekly, June 19, 2007)

Customer Reviews

Waste of money.
At home with Magnolia is a home I wish never to be invited to. After flipping through this book I returned it. Big waste of money.

Earthy, eclectic, accessible recipes
AT HOME WITH MAGNOLIA is a personal and eclectic collection of recipes inspired by what author and Magnolia Bakery owner Allysa Torey cooks at home in upstate New York. It is not a large collection, nor particularly ground-breaking, and it is as much a style book loaded with romantic Martha Stewart magazine like photographs of Torey`s enviable homestead as it is a cookbook.

Torey in upstate New York can depend on her own garden and the local farmer's market in season but is otherwise stuck with the kind of supermarket those of us who live beyond suburbia and exurbia are used to. Thus her lists of ingredients are not exotic and overly expensive, and will not leave many people scrambling to find substitutes or giving up. Her recipes are obviously inspired by a fresh abundance of ingredients. They are simple, but not simplistic or accidental: obviously she has learned what ingredients go together well. She is not averse to using the occasional prepared item: there's one recipe that calls for a can of soup! My favorite: the turkey sausage and broccoli rabe cavatelli. I make it with chicken sausage and have experimented with dandelion greens which worked just fine. Some of her recipes use more heavy cream and butter than I like, and then there are some that call for leaner ingredients. There is, for Magnolia Bakery fans, a cupcake recipe. It is the buttermilk pie, however, that I'm going to give a whirl next. Like I said, the book is eclectic and accessible.

good recipes
What a pleasure to read and see. This cook book has simple, fresh ideas for casual lunches or get togethers and the photos evoke a easy summer day.
I have alot of cookbooks and this is on the top of my favorites list.