The Big Book of Backyard Cooking: 250 Favorite Recipes for Enjoying the Great Outdoors
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Book Overview
Food just tastes better under an open sky. In this handbook to the alfresco life, one of our best-known cooking teachers shows how to please friends, neighbors, and family with hundreds of delicious dishes suitable for enjoying the great outdoors - whether it's a rooftop garden or a sprawling lawn. With classic fare such as fried chicken and potato salad, grilled favorites like juicy burgers, barbecued ribs, and sweet summer corn, plus fabulous new creations like Lamb Chops with Roquefort, Figs, and Rosemary and Chocolate Toffee Brownie Cake, eating and entertaining outdoors has never been easier. Rosbottom includes her favorite marinades and sauces, appetizers to keep the crowds at bay, deliciously fresh salads and starters, summery desserts, and much more, not to mention great tips for making sure grilled meats are done to perfection. Covering everything from fine dining under the stars to Sunday picnics by the lake, this latest addition to the big-selling Big Book series is the perfect guide to taking it outside.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0811836045
ISBN13:9780811836043
Release Date:March 2004
Publisher:Chronicle Books (CA)
Length:351 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 8.3" x 8.3"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Another Rosbottom Great!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
These aren't huge, complex dishes; they're meant to be something you can whip up and serve at a picnic or outdoor barbecue, although of course many of them will work fine on your dining room table, too. Even those dishes meant to be done at a grill can be cooked on your stove for the most part. Ms. Rosbottom set out to create something a little different in this cookbook of backyard cooking, so it wouldn't be just another cookbook. When looking for certain favorites, like potato salad, she looked for the best potato salad recipe she could find. When looking for traditional dishes such as salads, she looked for variations on traditional recipes that present us with something new and interesting. I have to say she succeeded at this---going back to the potato dishes for a moment, there were recipes in here for simple potato dishes that normally make me shrug, but that I went wild over when done her way. She includes simple relish recipes that transform meat into something extraordinary. Backyard Cooking is a large book with more than 250 recipes in it. It doesn't have any photographs, but I don't think it needs them---these are pretty simple dishes.
Another Great Entry by Betty Rosbottom
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
I have every book written by Betty Rosbottom. Her recipes never fail me. The title of this particular outing might lead you to believe that this is simply a book of bar-b-que recipes, but that is not the case. This book covers everthing you might want to go along with your bar-b-que meal or picnic. The apple pie is outstanding. I serve it at Thanksgiving and am always asked to share the recipe.
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