Wednesday, January 7, 2009

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.



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