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Food Made Fast Grilling (Williams-Sonoma Food Made Fast)

Rick Rodgers

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Reviewing: Williams-Sonoma Food Made Fast: Grilling 5 out of 5 stars.
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Speed of meal preparation is all the rage these days and is evidenced here as well both in terms of the series and this book. The longest section of the book opens the cookbook with "30 Minutes Start To Finish." With delectable choices such as "herbed flank steak with tomatoes," "florentine t-bone with spinach," or "orange-chipotle chicken with corn," "tuna steaks with ginger aioli," and many other mouthwatering delights which are also fairly easy to cook, you may never make it to the second section "15 minutes hands on time."

As implied by the title of the section, these mouth watering recipes are designed for a longer cooking time which leaves the cook free to mingle with guests, watch the ball game, or just relax. Whether you are making the "jerk pork tenderloin" or "chicken with tuscan herbs" one has to remember to occasionally wander back to the grill and flip the meat.

The third section is titled "make more to store" and takes the earlier recipes and explains how one can store in the refrigerator various amounts for consumption later in the week. Freezing is not recommended for any of the recipes in the book and that continues here as well. Other recipes not seen before are also included and detailed such as the enticing one on "vegetable quesadillas."

If you aren't starving by the time you make it to the back of the book and are still looking, you will find a detailed section covering grilling basics. Unlike many cookbooks devoted to grilling, those of us who use charcoal aren't left out and are in fact encouraged in this section. Indoor grilling is also covered along with detailed explanations of marinades, rubs, sauces and glazes, etc. as well as meal planning tips in terms of minutes or number of folks coming over.

Equally informative is the last section on what should be in your pantry, what can be stored for how long opened or not, and the general cooking tips that apply to grilling food as well as other cooking methods.

This fantastic cookbook which is the latest volume of a series closes with an easy to use index. At 112 pages, this book published through Oxmoor House is short but packs a powerful punch. It details easy recipes, beautifully photographed finished dishes, and plenty of valuable cooking tips which should serve to inspire your next meal.

Kevin R. Tipple (copyright) 2008

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Designed for the busy home cook, Food Made Fast is the latest collectible series from Williams-Sonoma. Using a straightforward approach to everyday cooking, Food Made Fast is about delicious food, simply prepared, with easy-to-follow recipes and tips. Each book emphasizes keeping a well-stocked pantry, planning ahead, and using fresh ingredients. Dedicated to a single subject--from Grill to Asian to Seafood--each volume makes it simple to plan, cook, and enjoy great-tasting food throughout the week.

Patio Daddy-O at the Grill: Great Food and Drink for Your Backyard Bash

Gideon Bosker, Karen Brooks, Tanya Supina

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Patio Daddy-O is back and this time they're taking it outdoors! Ten years after the original Patio Daddy-O won the world over with its retro recipes and '50s nostalgia, these fun-loving folks have compiled 45 new recipes that showcase the wonders of man's other best friend—the grill. The book goes beyond the basics with creative recipes that combine global ingredients with down-home Americana to produce rubs and pastes, meat and seafood main courses, kebabs, side dishes, cocktails, and desserts.

The Cooking Light Cook's Essential Recipe Collection -- Grilling: 58 essential recipes to eat smart, be fit, live well (Cooking Light Cook's Essential Recipe Collection)

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You want top-rated, delicious, reliable meals. We hope to expand your repertoire with recipes we consider our finest—ones that will give you great results every time. These are the recipes our staff can’t do without—and neither should you.

In this volume of The Cooking Light Cook’s Essential Recipe Collection, you’ll find:

Over 55 essential kitchen-tested grilling recipes! From Classic Steak House Rubbed Filet Mignon to Grilled Chicken Kebabs to Grilled Pork Tenderloin sandwiches to Grilled Tuna over Lemon-Mint Barley Salad, Cooking Light Grilling offers you Cooking Light magazine’s best-of-the-best recipes.

Over 100 bold and bright full-color photos! Each essential recipe is accompanied by a beautifully vivid, full-page color photograph, along with an additional image and information on a particular ingredient or technique that’s key to the recipe. Just one look at Adobo-Marinated Pork Tenderloin with Grilled Pineapple Salsa will inspire you to make it. And the technique photo of trimming the tenderloin shows you the best way to prepare the recipe.

Complete nutritional information for each recipe! In your quest to eat smart, be fit, and live well, you’ll find the complete nutritional analysis for each recipe amazingly helpful. Looking for a low-cal dish? Try Grilled Lamb Chops. Need less sodium? Grilled Stone Fruit Antipasto Plate  is ideal. Or maybe you want to increase your calcium intake. If so, Greek-Style Burgers with Feta Aïoli is a good choice.

A complete guide to all things grilled! Have a question about how hot your grill should be? Or are you in search of meat safety tips? Then check out our Cooking Class. This section will make matters clear once and for all. You’ll learn about the difference in direct and indirect grilling, how to prevent fish from sticking to the grill, and how to perfectly skewer your kebabs. Everything you need to grill great recipes is here!

The Thrill of the Grill: Techniques, Recipes, & Down-Home Barbecue

Christopher Schlesinger

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Killer Grill Thrill 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is a terrific cookbook. Of my 100+ cookbooks, this rates in my top five, along with Paul Prudhomme, Julia Child, and Marcella Hazan. These recipes are innovative, easy to follow, and truly tasty. The dishes are fairly simple, they offer some fabulous menu planning, and there are great pictures. The night I got the book, I tried the blue cheese lamb kabobs on wilted greens, along with the grilled scallops on mango relish on some friends, and I killed. I have since killed again, and will kill often with Thrill of the Grill.

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The Granddaddy of all Grilling cookbooks-with more than 130,000 copies sold-is available in paperback for the first time ever. From outdoor cooking experts Chris Schlesinger and John Willoughby, you'll learn ...

• Expert advice on getting your grill set up
• 190 sensational recipes from appetizers to dessert
• Great tips for grilling foods to perfection
• An up-to-date guide to barbecuing
• An indispensable list of tools you'll need to have

The Best Recipe: Grilling and Barbecue

Editors of Cook's Illustrated Magazine

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Can you make really good pulled pork at home? Which cut of meat makes the best beef kebabs? How do you keep lean pork tenderloin from tasting like sawdust? What is the secret to great-tasting burgers? Is it possible to make barbecued chicken that isn't dry?

In an exhaustive effort to answer these questions, the staff of Cook's Illustrated magazine lit more than 5,000 charcoal fires to test different grilling and barbecue techniques for The Best Recipe: Grilling and Barbecue.

The Best Recipe: Grilling and Barbecue also contains 300 illustrations that show you how to cut up a chicken, slice a T-bone steak, and remove the pinbones from a salmon fillet. No-nonsense equipment ratings and taste tests of supermarket foods are also included. Find out which commercial barbecue sauce received our highest rating, whether or not a fish basket really works, and what's the best tool for lighting a charcoal fire. You'll also learn which cuts of meat work best in different recipes, how to quickly brine foods to keep them moist over intense grill heat, and how to make the most of a gas grill. (All recipes include both charcoal and gas grill variations.)

More than 400 recipes cover just about everything that has ever been grilled, from steaks and chops to ribs and pulled pork. You'll find recipes for seafood—salmon, tuna, shrimp, and more—as well as instructions and recipes for grilling almost every vegetable imaginable, from asparagus to zucchini.

With The Best Recipe: Grilling and Barbecue at your side, we guarantee that you will never ruin another expensive piece of meat or fish because of some easily avoided mistake. Light the grill with confidence. With this cookbook as your guide, grilling and barbecuing will be easy and foolproof.

Ribstars Backyard Smoking & BBQ Cookbook

Richard W. McPeake

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Desperately Needs an Editor 1 out of 5 stars.
19 of 25 people found this review helpful.

The author may be a great cook but you'll have no chance of emulating him using this book. Whole sections are completely incoherent. Recipes are mostly impossible to follow. A recipe will have a list of ingredients -- some of which never show up again in the process.
I've been cooking for a long time and don't need to have my hand held but this is by far the worst cookbook I've ever seen. I can't believe it ever got into print. That I had to pay for it only adds to the insult.

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This is a very unique cookbook dedicated solely to the method of backyard smoking. It includes 136 pages of hints, tips, procedures and 118 fully tested recipes. With 35 pages of information that is necessary for successful BBQ. The book features 10 chapters of recipes:

Brine and Cures, Jerky Meats, Marinades, Meats, Mops, Rotisserie Meats, Rubs, Salsa & Relishes, Sauces, Side Dishes.

It is meant for the beginning and novice BBQer, who is looking to learn this method of cooking. All recipes have been developed, tested and retested by myself (Richard McPeake)

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Grilling (Complete Idiot's Guide to)

Don Mauer

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Household harmony with grilling 5 out of 5 stars.
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I bought this book for my husband. He got a new grill and I thought the book might improve his grilling techniques. The book is very helpful so far - citing exactly what to do for each cut of meat. We've tried only 2 recipes so far - one was excellent and the other was good, just not excellent. The book is very informative and the instructions are clear. I looked at several other books, but felt this was the most thorough. This is proving to be the case.

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Hot off the presses … and hot off the grill!

Expert Don Mauer walks barbeque novices through the basic techniques of grilling, from building a fire (for charcoal grills) to getting the heat just right (for gas grills). With tips and 250 recipes, grillers will learn to manage their grill space and heating zones like a pro while surprising family and guests with everything from tasty hamburger basics to fantastic fish and veggies.

The Best Barbecue on Earth: Grilling Across 6 Continents and 26 Countries, With 170 Recipes

Rick Browne

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Barbecue goes global as pit master Rick Browne travels to 25 locations, tasting, cooking, photographing, and adapting some of the world's best outdoor-cooking recipes for American grills and kitchens. Rick gorges on asado in Argentina; tosses Orange-Ginger Prawns on the barbie in Australia; experiences the epic feast known as South African braai; and grills just caught sardines in Portugal. Lively introductions to each country's unique barbecuing culture accompany a selection of the most mouth-watering and authentic yet approachable recipes Rick found there. Evocative location and styled food photographs will have readers planning a Korean (or German, or Mexican) themed grilling party in no time.

Grilling for Dummies

Bryan Miller, John Mariani

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What could be better than mixing great food and the great outdoors? Grilling For Dummies brings together two favorite pastimes—cooking and eating—into one easy-to-understand book teeming with tried-and-true barbecuing tips and tasty, mouthwatering recipes. Here's the best place to discover or improve your grilling skills:

• Explore the tools of the trade—what you need, and what you don't
• Select different types of grills based on their advantages and drawbacks
• Use hardwoods, charcoal, briquettes, self-igniting coals, and flavoring woods
• Check out a Griller's Glossary to mastering the inside lingo on grill-speak
• Season your grilled delights with spices, herbs, sauces, rubs, and marinades

Authors and grill gurus Marie Rama and John Mariani include a list of their favorite BBQ shacks around the country, and they offer ten timely tips for hosting successful outdoor patio or tailgate parties. And Grilling For Dummies features more than 130 tantalizing recipes—including recipes for sauces and side dishes (as well as health-conscious recipes for low-fat cuisine)—that enable you to prepare an infinite variety of gastronomic marvels on the grill!

Fish & Shellfish, Grilled & Smoked

Karen Adler

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From my review in "The National Barbecue News" 3 out of 5 stars.
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Most of us fall into one of two categories when it comes to seafood: One group understands the great flavors that comes from grilling or smoking it and the other breads it and fries it. I fall squarely into that second group. It's even come to the point where I just avoid the seafood counter at my local market all together after the damage I've done to some really beautiful slabs of fish. After all, there is a difference between between messing up a $1.99 per pound rack of spare ribs and a $12.99 per pound tuna steak.
But then came along "Fish & Shellfish Grilled & Smoked", an excellent book by Karen Adler and Judith M. Fertig. These authors may sound familiar; between them they've penned 14 cook books, one of which - "Easy Grilling & Simple Smoking with the Barbeque Queens" - they wrote together. Adler owns Pig Out Publications, the world's only book publisher/distributor devoted solely to barbecue. Fertig writes a weekly food column for The Kansas City Star. Thus, their credentials are well-earned and in "Fish & Shellfish Grilled & Smoked" they've done their best work to date.
The book's stripped-down format is a clever move. It's logically arranged into three parts: Grilling Fish and Shellfish, Smoking Fish and Shellfish and Every Thing Else You Need (yes, that is indeed the name of Part III). Parts I and II are divided into two chapters each - one for fish and one for shellfish. Following a 14-page introduction on grilling fish and shellfish, there are over 90 recipes for fish and 30 for shellfish in Part I (the fish and shellfish recipes are conveniently separated into their own chapters). Part II follows the same plan as it applies to smoking with about 25 recipes on fish and 19 for shellfish.
The recipes are presented in an easy-to-read style. Nearly all are contained within a single page and include a complete list of ingredients in one column and numbered step-by-step instructions in an adjacent column. A descriptive introduction is included under the title of each dish and suggestions for substitution ingredients is offered at the end. They've even gone the extra step of alphabetizing the order of recipes by type of fish.
With all this said, if this book could just help me to keep from having most of my grilled catfish filets left clinging stubbornly to the grill grate it would be well worth its price. The authors respond to the challenge with guidance on what type of fire is best for each cut and type of fish to help prevent this problem. Now that we've cleared that hurdle, let's try something more challenging!
The recipes allow for a growing confidence like mine. "Salsa Catfish" is the familiar grilled fish with your favorite salsa added. "Mahimahi with Kiwi Sauce" goes a step further by involving a fresh fruit puree. These are getting so easy now that even "Provencal Grilled Tuna with Sauce Remoulade" sounds doable! Now brimming with this new knowledge, it's time to move to the grilled shellfish chapter. A few recipes for lobster look interesting and then comes a surprise - "Grilled Baby Octopus". I didn't even know octopus was a shellfish, let alone that you could grill it. Nonetheless, Adler and Fertig make this task look easy, even supplying a reference on how to clean octopus.
The chapters on smoking offer up selections like "Apple Cider Smoked Trout with Horseradish Cream" and "Smoky Shrimp Quesadillas". This is looking easier all the time. Maybe it's about time I made a return visit to that seafood counter.
The first chapter of Part III offers a wide variety of rubs, marinades, sauces and the like. Some of these recipes are familiar, but there are plenty of new ideas for tastes that perform their best with seafood. The authors finish strong with a chapter on sides that don't necessarily involve seafood as ingredients but rather serve as great complements to seafood dishes.
So now I am ready to tackle whatever the fishmonger has to offer - grouper, sea bass, tilapia, halibut, monkfish or salmon. I know I can handle any or all with this book on my shelf. But now I have another problem: what do I do with this 50-pound bag of cornmeal fish breading that I have in my cupboard?

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With the increasing availability of delicious seafood year-round, fresh fish and shellfish are a regular part of nutritious menus. In their new cookbook Fish & Shellfish, Grilled & Smoked, grill experts Karen Adler and Judith M. Fertig demonstrate just how easy it is to make delicious, perfectly grilled or smoked fish and shellfish. They start by covering all the basics of equipment, techniques, and fish substitution guidelines, then provide easy-to-follow recipes as simple as Balsamic Smoked Haddock or Tequila-Lime Grilled Shrimp, and as elegant as Oak-Planked Salmon Charmoula or Thai-Style Stir-Grilled Snapper in Lemongrass Marinade. Adler and Fertig round out their collection of recipes with everything you need to complete a perfect meal: marinades, rubs, relishes, and sauces, as well as side dishes made both on and off the grill.