Ina Garten's Vegetable Coleslaw recipe comes together in 15 minutes. The 'Barefoot Contessa' host shreds carrots and cabbage in a food processor before making a quick and flavorful sauce.

The recipe noted a tip if you don’t have an immersion blender for this step. “Alternatively, use a blender to puree the soup 1 cup at a time,” the recipe explains.

So what kind of home does a Barefoot Contessa live in? In the first pages of Ina Garten’s newest cookbook, “Barefoot Contessa at Home” (Clarkson Potter, 256 pages, $35), you get to find out. Before ...