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Rating:  - Search No Further...This is THE Book for Gas Grilling!!!
I have over five hundred cookbooks in my collection and fifty of these are dedicated to barbeque, grilling and smoke cooking. The Gas Grill Gourmet was one of my earliest purchases and remains my favorite reference for gas grilling. To be sure, it isn't fancy or larded with a lot of pictures (In fact there are NONE)but it is an indispensable source of information, tips, techniques and simply delicious recipes. It is the best discussion of indirect cooking that I have come across.What I particularly like is that the recipes are for food that most of us will find easy to prepare, with ingredients that we have on the shelf or are readily available at the supermarket. You are also given a taste of a wide variety of grilling cuisines. In the poultry section alone, French, Jamaican, Indian, Southwestern, Italian, Mexican and Asian cuisines are represented with recipes that you will find both easy to prepare and delicious on the palate. At the beginning of each section, Mr. Sinnes provides the reader with tips and suggestions to maximize your grilling experience. The recipes are listed at the beginning of the section and include the page numbers. You will particularly find the Introduction helpful as the author thoroughly discusses what you should look for in a gas grill, grilling techniques, safety and necessary accessories. In short, whether you be novice or expert, this book will be a welcome addition to your grilling experience. It won't disappoint and your family and guests will be most impressed and will come back repeatedly.
Rating: - IF YOU GOING TO OWN A BOOK ON GRILLING - THIS IS THE ONE!
I have owned this book for two years and I have yet to cook a recipe from it that my family and friends have not thought was excellent! Forget Bobby Flay and all of those other fancy grill cook books out there. This is the ONLY one you will ever need. The author thoroughly covers every possible thing to cook on a grill and presents it in a very readable format with excellent tasting recipes. And a majority of the recipes are ingredient friendly as well, so you do not have to travel to the far ends of the earth to get exoctic ingredients. This book will make you look at your gas grill very differently!
Rating: - If you have a gas grill, you NEED this book!
This is by far the most frequently used cookbook that I have purchased in the past year...and I buy lots of cookbooks! We bought a Weber Genesis gas grill this year, after being hardcore charcoal grillers for years. I was looking for a versatile, informative, and all-inclusive book of gas grill recipes, and I found it in this one. It starts with good info about gas grill methods, the difference between direct-heat and indirect-heat grilling, cooking times and accessories, written in a reader-friendly manner. And the recipes....wow! This book has everything from appetizers (try the Cheese Quesadillas...my guests inhaled these so fast I didn't see how they'd have room for the main course) through desserts, with tons of great side dish recipes. And as for the meat section, which is why most of us buy grill cookbooks, think of any meat, poultry or fish you could possibly want to grill, and this book will give you a great recipe for it. The chicken section alone, which is what I find we use most, covers whole roasted chickens several ways, various marinated chicken recipes, wings...and try the Pesto Chicken Breasts, they are out of this world! There is also a section of "Off the Grill" side dishes, with lots of great, summery recipes for salads and vegetables (the Creamed Spinach was fantastic).I also purchased other grill books, but found that the recipes were, for the most part, difficult and too "high-brow" for casual home cooking and weekend entertaining. This book does cover the more elegant dishes (Quail? Who grills quail?), and there are plenty of recipes with ethnic flavor that will inspire you, but it's main focus is on simpler recipes that won't send you scurrying to the gourmet section of the supermarket for ingredients. If you don't agree this is the most useful grill cookbook on the market....your next steak is on me.
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