Learn to COOK - Get Grilling
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Manufacturer: Food Network Kitchens
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5784
EAN: 9780696222139
ISBN: 0696222132
Label: Food Network Kitchens
Manufacturer: Food Network Kitchens
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2005-03-15
Publisher: Food Network Kitchens
Release Date: 2005-03-15
Studio: Food Network Kitchens
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Novice and expert home cooks will love the grilling inspiration and easy-to-follow, how-to grilling instructions from the collective culinary expertise of the Food Network. Mouthwatering recipes for grilling everything from appetizers to desserts. Flavorful recipes for grilling meats, poultry, and fish using special sauces, marinades, and rubs. Recipes for success whether grilling with gas or charcoal grills. Time-saving tips, tricks, and secrets to grilling success. A must-have book of kitchen-tested favorites for beginners and grillmeisters.
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Summary: Great Inspiration for Grillers
Comment: I just purchased Get Grilling after seeing a demonstration by the Food Network Kitchens Staff at Chef Central, and I have to say it is THE best book on grilling I have seen. As someone who was recently crushed to discover an allergy to beef, I thought my grilling days were over. They had me from the first recipe though - shrimp spring rolls with dipping sauce. The creative takes on these recipes are exciting. This isn't a book with 20 million recipes for barbecue sauce. They really took the time and developed many varied dishes and captured the whole spirit of grilling. The varied foods include fun appetizers, as well as lamb, and swordfish. By not simply concentrating on ribs and burgers, they gave me ideas on new things and new ingredients to try. The tips are easy to spot but don't get in the way of the recipe. The shopping tips and explanations of new ingredients and where to get them are helpful also. Worth the price of several other grilling books combined. A wonderful recipe book.
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Summary: Get Going With Get Grilling
Comment: Once again food editor Jennifer Darling (who did the fantastic BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS COOKBOOK that has become a standby) comes through for the people at Food Network with a winner. Though our days here in the Bay Area have been filled with rain, inside we've managed to do some indoor grilling and used sixof the recipes she provides (including side dish recipes, which eliminated the need to use the range entirely). With a gas grill, everything's easy especially in a moist climate, but as the book says, there will always be people who prefer charcoal and more power to them. Most of the recipes Darling includes can be adapted for both. Now that summer is almost upon us this book will get a real workout. It is sort of a heavy book, I'll tell you that, but one thing about people who use cookbooks, we know what it's like to have to lift! Not that 2 pounds is particularly notable any more.
I have Rachael Ray's cookbook too and plan to try to set up an Iron Chef-like battle of the cookbooks, using her more personalized recipes against the slick, no-name fusion food of GET GRILLING. If you like to have theme parties this book could be the winner, for there are all sorts of creative dishes you could make and lump them under one heading, like A Trip Around The World or Fairy Tales or The Four Seasons. In our household one of us is a strict vegan and the other eats meat sparingly yet heartily, and both of us have marked off the pages we plan to conquer this summer out of GET GRILLING. See you in September!
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Summary: Showcases recipes for outdoor grilling
Comment: Get Grilling: Recipes, Tips, And Techniques For Terrific Food And Big Fun In The Great Outdoors is the collaborative work of the Food Network Kitchens staff and showcases recipes for outdoor grilling drawn from the Food Network television programming. After informative introductions into the "art of the grill", this beautifully illustrated compendium of grilling recipes ranges from Bacon-wrapped Dates with Manchego; Chicken Paillards with Herb-Tomato Salad; Fiery Flank Steak and Papaya Salad; and Lamb Brochettes with Tapenade; to Veal Chops with Endive and Lemon; Jumbo Shrimp Stuffed with Cilantro and Chiles; Sea Scallops with Zucchini Ribbons and Mint-Chive Oil; and Lobster with Tarragon Butter and Fingerling Potatoes. Of special note are the chapters devoted to recipes for salads, side dishes, sauces, rubs, sweets, and drinks. If you are intending to grill outdoors for your mealtime pleasure, then Get Grilling is the cookbook for you!
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Summary: Excellent Grilling Recipes for a Reasonable Price
Comment: `get grilling' by the `food network kitchens' is the third written by the staff of the Food Network and while the first two were sound, this volume, with recipes which are just as good, succeeds where the others may tend to get lost.
This book succeeds because it provides lots of very good staple recipes for grilling, just in time for the 2005 living outdoors season. Basically, this book is not a winner because it apes Bobby Flay in trying to come up with a lot of innovative grilling recipes. It wins because it covers all the familiar recipes that are somewhere between easy and moderately challenging for the weekend griller who doesn't even bother to crack a cookbook or turn on Emeril over the long winter months. Like the earlier books, this volume has a very nice mix of recipes from a lot of different cuisines, but all of them are more variations on familiar dishes rather than outlandish dishes with rare ingredients such as galangal and Kaffir Lime leaves. I will not do a compete count and just indicate to you that the Mediterranean, including Europe, Africa, and the Levant; China; Japan; Southeast Asia; and Neuvo Latino cuisines are all represented, along with middle America and its heavy German influence on things such as brats, wieners, sauerkraut, and cole slaw.
As a non-griller, the thing I liked about this book is that it struck a very nice balance between giving the rudiments without taking up a third of the book with things some people already know and some people don't need to know. My only argument with this presentation is that they picture the `TOOLS OF THE TRADE' in four group photos and don't indicate in their discussion whether the items are cited from top to bottom, from left to right or from clockwise to counterclockwise. Tsk, Tsk.
On the much more positive side of things, the authors succeed in describe grilling as a distinctively different type of cooking, similar to, but not the same as baking, broiling, or sauteeing. They also stay on a finely impartial line between the religious factions in favor of charcoal and gas grilling. In fact, they make a very useful contribution to the charcoal camp by recommending a mix of briquettes and natural hardwood charcoal. The authors also score big with their recommendation of grilling cages. I have no idea why these have not been more broadly recommended, as they seem like naturals for doing fish and vegetables. The only Food Network show on which I have ever seen them appear was on a Martha Stewart episode hosting the owner chef of a leading New York fish restaurant. I just wish the authors had included a source for ordering these little darlings.
The authors cover the outdoor grilling / picnic scene with ten different types of dishes. These are:
Nibbles & noshes with some traditional dishes, grilled appetizers, and veggie oddities such as jicama sticks.
Little Dishes from the Grill with wings, crostini, pizzas, potato salad, kebabs, and veggie Napoleons. Note that the veggie Napoleons are done much more easily with the grilling baskets than without.
Burgers, Dogs, & Sandwiches is the chapter which clinched my strong recommendation for this book. Everyone can grill burgers and dogs, but isn't it nice to have all in one place some recipes for four different burger recipes, toppings for those doggies, and some righteous North Carolina pulled pork barbecue. This chapter alone makes me want to buy my first grill.
Chicken & other BBQ'd birds or more staples of the well-flavored grilling repertoire.
Meat of the Matter, or steaks, chops, ribs, medallions, and brochettes on the outdoor grill.
Fish and Shellfish, including smoking and planking recipes for days which are not Labor Day, 4th of July, or Memorial Day.
Salads and sides with two for potato, two for macaroni, two cole slaws, lots of tomatoes, and lots of grilled veggies. Again, this is all about basics with good variety to keep you interested.
Sauces and Rubs with a very well informed selection of regional specialities from North Carolina, Kansas City, New Orleans, Texas, and Memphis. Bobby Flay was here!
Sweets with some grilled fruit, s'mores, easy pies, and easy cakes
Drinks, including all the iced tea recipes you scramble for in you misplaced Martha Stewart books, plus some coolers, sangria, margaritas, and a warning to have enough ice on hand.
The cooking tips in the first Food Network book were, I thought, a waste of space. In this book, since the focus is very narrowly on grilling skills, the tips are just right, focusing on just enough to keep the average summer outdoor chef from cutting off your thumb or infecting his guests with ptomaine.
Like the previous two books, there is no mention of the Food Network's culinary stars. The most we get is a sly reference to the fact that these backstage cooks have rubbed elbows with the likes of show host Bobby Flay and guests such as Chris Schlesinger and Steve Raichlen, both minor gods in the world of modern grilling. The book also does less than it could to distinguish grilling from barbecuing. Yet, while the writers and editors are not in line with my linguistic prejudices, they succeed in generally limiting the word `barbecue' to long, low heat cooking involving smoke. So all is forgiven and this book heartily gets its full five stars!
As long as I am applauding this book, I can off the suggestion to all those cookbook publisher out there that they garnish no interest from me by imitating e. e. cummings by lower casing all their titles. This is a total waste of modesty and as a purchaser of about 200 cookbooks a year, has absolutely no influence on my selections or opinions, except to believe the copy editors fell asleep during seventh grade English!
If you grill outdoors, buy this book. If you only grill indoors, buy Bobby Flay's books.
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