Close-up of cooked pot roast - SYED IBAD RM/Shutterstock So your party is fast approaching and you've promised a crowd-pleasing beef dinner, and now you're at the grocery store staring at a rump roast ...

First up is Garten’s roast chicken recipe that started it all. Featured in her debut cookbook, The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, it’s one of Garten’s top-rated recipes on Food Network‘s website. At the ...

When demonstrating how to make the roast chicken recipe on her Barefoot Contessa cooking show, Garten notes, “I can do this in my sleep” since it’s one of her go-to meals. She first rinses the chicken ...