Celebrity chef Bobby Flay believes his new cookbook, "Bobby at Home," is his most important book to date. That's because it's a collection of his favorite recipes, the ones he is likely to serve family and friends when he's at home.
As well as being a chef and restaurateur, Flay has been host or star of 14 TV shows on the Food Network and Cooking Channel, among them "Boy Meets Grill," "Throwdown With Bobby Flay" and "Beat Bobby Flay."
He says that when people ask him what he does to relax when he's not working, they often seem surprised to learn that what he does is cook. But it's a very different style than when he's working in one of his restaurants or competing on TV.
"At home, it's a pace that's steady but focused, and where the food is always abundant and served family-style," he writes in the book's introduction.
Flay says this meatless main dish is hearty enough to please meat lovers as well as vegetarians. His pasta of choice for this is tortiglioni (similar to rigatoni but larger and with deeper, spiral grooves), but he says rigatoni and fettuccine would also work well.
