2500 Recipes or Extreme Barbecue

2500 Recipes: Everyday to Extraordinary

Author: Andrew Schloss

How to escape the cooking routine of the same old dishes, meal after meal.

Many home cooks are stuck in a food routine that includes preparing the same 10 or 15 recipes over and over again, week after month after year.

2500 Recipes, the ideal guide to escaping that routine, offers 50 recipes each for foods ranging from snacks and sandwiches, to chicken and ground meat; from shellfish to grains; from winter vegetables to summer fruit. There's also a special section of dishes for special occasions.

Consider this common scenario. There is a chicken waiting to be roasted for dinner. Stop. Go the chapter that has 50 recipes for roast chicken. Each one is different. Most important, there are sure to be a few that are more interesting than that old reliable one prepared out of habit—too often a bad habit. Without doubt, there will be dozens of recipes based on ingredients commonly on hand to please cook, family and guests. There's even a chapter with 50 scrumptious recipes for burgers and hot dogs. Each one is sure to delight.

All the recipes are quick, and most use just a small number of ingredients. But each recipe includes a "power flavor" that's easy to obtain and easy to incorporate into cooking routines. Examples include oils, herbs, olives and sun-dried tomatoes.

There is also an entire section on basic cooking techniques and preparations, featuring seasonings, marinades, sauces, dressings and machines.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
About These Recipes

Part 1: The Toolbox

Basic Techniques for Cooking Anything
Basic Preparations Every Cook Should Know

Part 2: Cooking Basics

• Marinades: Infinite Variations on Basic Ingredients
• Seasoning: Because Flavoring Is Easy
• Sauces: To Turn Anything into a Meal
• Dressings: to Help You Kick the Bottle
• Machines That Make Cooking Easier

Part 3: Everyday Cooking

• Snacks and Little Plates: To Help Spoil Dinner (or Any Meal)
• Sandwiches: The Ultimate One-Dish Meal
• Kid Food: Taste-Tested by Discriminating Third-Graders
• Leftovers: Homemade Convenience Ingredients
• Cooking on a Budget: Good Food Doesn't Have to Cost a Lot
• Burgers and Dogs: For the Whole Family
• Grilling: For the Flavor of Fire
• Frying-Pan Cuisine: For Dinner Right Now
• Stir-Frying: Quick, Healthful and Infinitely Variable
• Heatless Cooking: When It's Too Hot to Turn on the Stove
• Salads: For Any Meal
• Soups: For Starters, Suppers, and Snacks
• Chili: Easy, Filling and Sophisticated
• Pizza: No Need to Order Out
• Pasta: It's All in the Sauce
• Casseroles: Comfort Food at Its Best
• GroundMeat: The Old Standby Reinvigorated
• Stews: Chase Away the Chill
• Roast Chickens: The Whole Bird
• Chicken Parts: White and Dark Meats Cooked to Perfection
• Turkey: The Other Bird
• Fish: Cooking Your Favorites
• Understanding Fish: The Lean and Fat of Cooking
• Shellfish: Easy and Sophisticated
• Meatless Dishes: For Devoted and Occasional Vegetarians
• Grains: From Rice to Quinoa
• Greens: Spinach, Kale, Endives and Cabbages
• Harvest Vegetables: Broccoli, Cauliflower, Beans and Squash
• Winter Vegetables: Beets, Carrots, Parsnips and Potatoes
• Summer Bounty: Corn, Zucchini, Tomatoes and Other Garden Excesses
• Fall Fruit: Apples, Pears and Tropical Treats
• Summer Fruit: Berries, Peaches and Plums
• Breakfast: For Any Time of Day (or Night)
• Cookies: For Every Day, Every Way
• Dessert Sauces: For Better Mental Health
• Drinks: Because Everyone Gets Thirsty

Part 4: Cooking for Special Occasions

• Entertaining: Recipes That Let You Go to Your Own Party
• Roasts: For Celebration or Just to Show Off
• Romantic Recipes: Because Some Foods Are Meant for Seduction
• Low-Calorie Recipes: For Keeping Slim
• Health Food: For You and Your Planet
• Chocolate Recipes: For Happiness
• Homemade Pie: A Natural Extravagance
• Homemade Muffins: To Warm the Hearth
• Homemade Gifts: To Warm the Heart

Acknowledgments
Index

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Extreme Barbecue: Smokin' Rigs and 100 Real-Good Recipes

Author: Dan Huntley

Twenty whole chickens bathed in garlic on a rig that resembles a cast-iron satellite dish . . . this is Extreme Barbecue, a tribute to the derring-do behind the craziest grilling contraptions in the country. Through in-depth profiles, outrageous photographs, and nearly 100 personal recipes, this unique cookbook exalts in unprecedented cooking techniques and junkyard serendipity from the Zen-like simplicity of a tin can on two heated fl at stones to the awesome two-story mobile smoker complete with winding staircase. Whether it's a front-end loader serving as a grilling rig in Kansas City or a 4,500-pound mobile bread baker in Portland, Oregon, this is BBQ like you've never seen or tasted before.