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COOKBOOKS BY DONNA LEAHY
French Toast, Waffles and Pancakes for Breakfast
ISBN-978-1-942118-09-1
From Net Galley
A chef's passion for breakfast shines in these easy-to-follow recipes for elegant, creative breakfasts featuring French toast, waffles and pancakes. In French Toast, Waffles and Pancakes for Breakfast: Comfort Food for Leisurely Mornings, celebrated cookbook author Donna Leahy shares her favorite mouth-watering recipes for the morning meal. Leahy sets a new standard for breakfast comfort food with creative dishes that are easy to prepare. From sweet to savory, over 100 step-by-step, mouth-watering recipes will become trusted favorites for A.M. entertaining. With gorgeous color photographs and practical tips, French Toast, Waffles and Pancakes for Breakfast will become the go-to breakfast cookbook for enjoying inspired, restaurant-quality comfort food at home.
Eggs for Breakfast
ISBN-978-1-942118-06-0
From Net Galley
The comprehensive guide to cooking delicious eggs for breakfast with techniques and over 50 recipes and photographs from acclaimed chef Donna Leahy, author of Morning Glories and Recipe for a Country Inn.
A chef's passion for breakfast shines in these easy-to-follow recipes for elegant, creative breakfasts featuring eggs as the main ingredient. Beginning with basic techniques for cooking eggs like scrambling and poaching and classics like Eggs Benedict and Huevos Rancheros, Leahy sets a new standard for breakfast with creative, healthy egg dishes that are easy to prepare. Eggs for Breakfast offers techniques for mastering the art of cooking eggs and step-by-step, mouth-watering recipes that will become trusted favorites for A.M. entertaining. With gorgeous color photographs and practical tips, Eggs for Breakfast will become the go-to breakfast cookbook for enjoying inspired, restaurant-quality egg dishes at home.
Recipe for a Country Inn
ISBN-978-0060184926
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From Publishers Weekly
The heart of the book is its informal table. Time constraints mean that Leahy favors recipes that are not overly complicated and others that can be prepared in advance. Breakfasts (as in her earlier Morning Glories) are a particular strength with 16 egg dishes and 16 additional helpings of breakfast fare featuring fruits or berries, such as Baked French Toast with Peaches and Blueberries. Soups bring on Oyster and Pancetta Chowder and Smoked Tomato Soup, and salads include the savory Quail with Belgian Endive and Blueberry Vinaigrette. While limited in number, entries entice with Sirloin Strip Steak with Stilton Crust and Lobster Fricasee with Corn and Chive Pancakes.
Morning Glories
ISBN-978-0847819232
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From An Amazon Review
Tired of the standard breakfast fare such plain pancakes, instant oatmeal, and dry cereal, and unable to do unhealthy meals such as biscuits and sausage gravy on anything but the rare occasion, I went hunting for a cookbook devoted specifically to breakfast foods. I didn't exactly find the shelves
overflowing with such cookbooks - but fortunately, this was one of them. They are not your traditional breakfasts in any manner - each recipe has unusual ingredients for the type of food, each is fancier than what you're used to - and plenty of them aren't that much harder to make.
Finally, instead of looking in the book and thinking "I need to make this someday", I actually did it. And the recipe was not only simple to follow,
but the breakfast was most definitely worth it