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Meat Illustrated: A Foolproof Guide to Understanding and Cooking with Cuts of All Kinds

Increase your meat counter confidence with this must-have companion for cooking beef, pork, lamb, and veal with more than 300 kitchen-tested recipes.

Part cookbook, part handbook organized by animal and its primal cuts, Meat Illustrated provides essential information and techniques to empower you to explore options (affordable cuts like beef shanks instead of short ribs, lesser-known cuts like country-style ribs, leg of lamb instead of beef tenderloin for your holiday centerpiece), and recipes that make those cuts shine. Meat is a treat; we teach you the best methods for center-of-the-plate meats like satisfying Butter-Basted Rib-Eye Steaks (spooning on hot butter cooks the steaks from both sides so they come to temperature as they acquire a deep crust), meltingly tender Chinese Barbecued Roast Pork Shoulder (cook for 6 hours so the collagen melts to lubricate the meat), and the quintessential Crumb-Crusted Rack of Lamb. Also bring meat beyond centerpiece status with complete meals: Shake up surf and turf with Fried Brown Rice with Pork and Shrimp. Braise lamb shoulder chops in a Libyan-style chickpea and orzo soup called Sharba.

Illustrated primal cut info at the start of each section covers shopping, storage, and prep pointers and techniques with clearly written essays, step-by-step photos, break-out tutorials, and hundreds of hand-drawn illustrations that take the mystery out of meat prep (tie roasts without wilderness training; sharply cut crosshatches in the fat), so you’ll execute dishes as reliably as the steakhouse. Learn tricks like soaking ground meat in baking soda before cooking to tenderlize, or pre-roasting rather than searing fatty cuts before braising to avoid stovetop splatters. Even have fun with DIY curing projects.

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Fish & Shellfish, Grilled & Smoked: 300 Foolproof Recipes for Everything from Amberjack to Whitefish, Plus Really Good Rubs, Marvelous Marinades, Sassy Sauces, and Sumptuous Sides

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Barbecue and grilling pros Karen Adler and Judith Fertig offer 300 varied recipes for grilling and smoking nearly every variety of fish and shellfish, from amberjack to whitefish. Recipes, which include apple cider-smoked trout with horseradish cream and fresh corn and smoked clam cakes with ancho chile sauce, are supplemented by information-packed tips and guidance, such as an overview of different oyster varieties in North America and guidelines for healthy grilling and smoking. Chapters on marinades, rubs, sauces, and side dishes help readers build sumptuous, complete meals.Recipes include: Grilled Tuna with Fresh Peach and Onion Relish Salmon with Tunisian Spiced Vegetables Teriyaki Stir-Grilled Mahimahi Tequila-Lime Grilled Shrimp Latin Lover’s Grilled Baby Squid Balsamic Smoked Haddock Apple Cider-Smoked Trout with Horseradish Cream Fresh Corn and Smoked Clam Cake with Ancho Chili Sauce Smoked Scallops with Citrus Vinaigrette Orange and Red Onion Salad Parmesan-Crusted Tomatoes
Fish, often bottom-billed in many barbecue and grilling cookbooks with a few token recipes, succeeds spectacularly as the star of the show in Fish & Shellfish, Grilled & Smoked. Authors Karen Adler and Judith M. Fertig–Kansas City foodies and members of an all-women barbecue team called the ‘Que Queens–argue that fresh fish and shellfish are a healthier option to other traditional barbecue meats due to their low-fat, low-calorie qualities. There’s also wonderful variety, as demonstrated by the 300 recipes–presented in a clean, eye-pleasing layout–that pack this book. Standouts, and there are many, include Cape Cod Blackfish (“mild-flavored yet firm and meaty”); Grilled Baby Squid, brushed with olive oil, garlic, and paprika; and North Woods Smoked Walleye, marinated in wheat beer and served over mixed greens. “Fish Tales,” sidebars of fish facts and history that pop up throughout, are a nice touch. There’s also a funny story about the authors’ reluctance to include a smoked-eel recipe. (“First of all, you have to buy a live eel. That means 30 minutes with a live eel squirming in a plastic bag next to the driver.”) In addition, for folks who have a hard time getting fresh fish locally, there’s a handy list of fish purveyors. This is a terrific cookbook that would fit nicely on any griller’s bookshelf. –Andy Boynton

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Kamado Smoker And Grill Cookbook: The Ultimate Kamado Smoker And Grill Cookbook – Innovative Recipes And Foolproof Techniques For The Most Flavorful And Delicious Barbecue

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Do you own a Kamado Smoker and Grill?

Do you love the taste of barbecued food? Do you want to learn fool proof recipes that will come out perfect time and time again? With the Kamado Smoker and Grill Cookbook, we will teach you everything you need to know about this amazing product, so that you can provide your barbecues with the best, the tastiest and the most succulent food you’ve ever eaten. Inside the pages, we will look at…

  • What a Kamado Smoker and Grill is
  • The history of Kamado grills
  • The basics of operating it
  • Advantages and disadvantages
  • Recipes for grilling, smoking, steaming, braising and even baking
  • A handy Kamado conversion chart

Using one of these great products can seem daunting, but armed with the information in this book you will be cooking great food on your Kamado Smoker and Grill in no time. Get a copy of the Kamado Smoker and Grill Cookbook today and find the most innovative and exciting recipes for delicious barbecue food!

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The Rotisserie Grilling Cookbook: Surefire Recipes and Foolproof Techniques

Rotisserie grilling is full of hurdles and pitfalls, but The Rotisserie Grilling Cookbook is full of helpful advice

While you can grill a burger or steak without a cookbook, rotisserie grilling is tricky. With everyday grilling, most people cook things with roughly even thickness and they can tell when the meats are done just by looking at them. Try something bigger, like a leg of lamb, a whole turkey, or a full pork shoulder, and they have a problem–most grills will completely char the outside long before the inside is cooked to a safe temperature. The solution, of course, is a rotisserie. The Rotisserie Grilling Cookbook shows how to set up, maintain, use and troubleshoot a rotisserie spit. It includes 105 recipes will expand your outdoor cooking repertoire, including a dry-brined Thanksgiving turkey, a whole country ham for other holidays, a whole chicken, duck, game hens, and big cuts like a beef ribeye roast or a leg of lamb. Beyond the meat recipes that are the core of the book, it includes rubs, glazes, and mops that are specifically crafted for long, slow cooking over a rotisserie, and even some ideas, like a spit-roasted whole pineapple, from beyond the world of poultry and meats.

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