Gorgeously illustrated with hundreds of her beautiful color photographs,?The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook?is all about approachable, uncompromised home cooking. Here you?ll find better uses for your favorite vegetables: asparagus blanketing a pizza; ratatouille dressing up a sandwich; cauliflower masquerading as pesto. These are recipes you?ll bookmark and use so often they become your own, recipes you?ll slip to a friend who wants to impress her new in-laws, and recipes with simple ingredients that yield amazing results in a minimum amount of time.