Saturday, December 27, 2008

Best 50 Smoothies or Indoor Grilling

Best 50 Smoothies

Author: Joanna Whit

Satisfy your hunger and your need for exceptional flavor with healthy, delicious blender drinks. Smoothies are the perfect answer to nutritionally rich breakfasts, snacks and desserts.

Choose from Breakfast, Berry, Tropical, Citrus, Melon and Creamy Smoothies. You'll also find hints for making, garnishing and serving smoothies. There are hints for making, garnishing and serving smoothies.



Book review: While Europe Slept or A Treasury of Great American Scandals

Indoor! Grilling

Author: Steven Raichlen

Indoors—It's the new outdoors

SPIT-ROASTED PRIME RIBS, crusty on the outside, moist and tender inside. Yes! CHICKEN UNDER A BRICK, heady with smoke and spice. Yes! CURRY-BRILLED LAMB KEBABS, POTATOES ROASTED IN THE ASHES, BAYOU WINGS, VANILLA-BRILLED PINEAPPLE WITH DARK RUM GLAZE—all of it infused with honest-to-goodness real-grilled flavor, and all of it cooked indoors. Yes!

Bursting with bold new ideas, 270 righteous recipes, and hundreds of tips and techniques—from how to season a cast-iron grill pan to buying brisket cut from the "flat"—Raichlen's Indoor! Grilling brings the guru's mastery of live-fire cooking indoors. New every day's a good day to grill.

Publishers Weekly

While Raichlen, who's made a television and book-writing career as an advocate of cooking over live fire, still believes that outdoor cooking is the best way to cook, he admits that isn't practical for apartment dwellers or those living in places with frigid winter temperatures or "grill-burying snowfall." He begins by describing and making recommendations for various indoor grilling devices, from the ubiquitous George Foreman to fireplace rotisseries, and then presents recipes in separate chapters for appetizers, beef, pork, lamb, burgers, poultry, seafood, sandwiches, vegetables, basics (rubs, compound butters and sauces) and desserts. Befitting its brawny subject, the book's chapters on appetizers and desserts aren't filled with frilly offerings that look nice but lack substance. Rather, Raichlen makes Gazpacho with hearty grilled tomatoes, and prepares Grilled Peaches with Bourbon Caramel Sauce using either a contact grill, grill pan, built-in grill or fireplace grill. When the recipe can be prepared on any indoor grilling device (and most recipes can be), Raichlen provides, in a separate box, specific instructions for each type of grill. Every recipe includes informative, enthusiastic headnotes, useful tips and clear, detailed instructions. But perhaps the book's greatest asset is its balanced use of hearty flavors. It's an intelligent cookbook packed with tasty ideas that will keep indoor grillers busy all year long. Photos. (Nov.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

What People Are Saying


"Full of fresh ideas that bring the glory of outdoor barbecuing indoors. Jump in and start cooking now!"
—Jacques Pépin




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