great cookbook | Bobby Flay's Boy Meets Grill: With More Than 125 Bold New Recipes

Great Cookbook! | Bobby Flay's Boy Meets Grill: With More Than 125 Bold New Recipes | Bobby Flay, Joan Schwartz

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	• Bobby Flay's Boy Meets Grill: With More Than 125 Bold New Recipes Bobby Flay, Joan Schwartz Hyperion, 1999 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 39 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

good grilling cookbook

pretty nice cookbook, some very colorful pictures, the recipes sound good... made a great graduation present for my boyfriend, he really loved it

great cookbook

I got this for my husband as part of his "grilling Father's Day gift". It's a great book with a lot of different ways to dress up basic grill food-but easily. You don't have to be a chef to follow these recipes, but you do need a good visit to the grocery store. If you are planning a more sophisitcated cook out, this will be a great book for you. I like Flay's approach which understands that not everyone is a pro like him, but finds a balance between the chef and every day griller.

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Great Cookbook!

My husband loves to cook and grill and this is by far one of his favorite and most practical cookbooks.

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One of the best and most relaible cook books in my collection

I will admit to some reservations about Bobby Flay, the highly successful restaurateur and TV chef. He's rich, accomplished and seems unbearably smug but some of his recipes sounded good on TV and so I bought this. And having experimented with it, I forgive him, or at least will accept his `smugness' is well earned. This stuff is good!

I now have several of Flay's books but this was my first and favorite. Indeed in my collection of cook books this is one of my all time favorites. I've tried many, many Flay recipes and almost all of the ones here and have never, I mean NEVER had one fail.

Flay does have some themes he doesn't wander far from; meat with fruit, fish with herbs etc but the variations are wonderful and once you have a feel for where he's going with a dish, you can play around with them. In fact this book is so well used it is hard to find a page that isn't either stained by splashes or my notes in the margin. In my kitchen that means a well loved and well used book.

The recipes are so well balance that if you are confident it will encourage you to try experimenting. In my house a shrimp dish has been adapted to a favorite chicken dish and a grilled turkey breast, now glazed with honey instead of molasses is a main part of the Xmas dinner. Lastly this also becomes an invaluable guide for dealing with meat of any sort if you find yourself scrambling to come up with something at the spur of the moment-yes I'm talking from experience here.

Overall this is a great cook book. I've read a lot and this is one of the most reliable I've ever opened. If you enjoy cooking and especially grilling, you will have to go a long way before you find one as good as this one.

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Not Bobby's Best Work

I am a huge Bobby Flay fan, and particularly love Mesa Grill in NYC. I also have several of his cookbooks and they are amongst my favorite cookbooks. I have been quite disappointed to date with the recipes in this book.

I made the Spicy Cucumber Pickles and Roasted Tomato Ketchup. The pickles were a vinegary mess, and the ketchup was way too sweet. I dumped both dishes, something I rarely do. The Hamburgers with Double Cheddar Cheese, Grilled Vidalia Onions and Horseradish Mustard was tasty, but do we really need a recipe to create a simple burger with onions and cheese?

The Paella was decent but not memorable. Ditto for the Key Lime Pudding Cake and the Watermelon, Grilled Peach and Blackberry Slad with Honey Yogurt Dressing, which was actually quite mediocre. I did enjoy the Lemon Blueberry Upside Down Cake.

I am such a Flay fan that I am not giving up on the book, although I would at this juncture if it were any other cookbook author. I am trying the chicken quesadillas tomorrow for friends...so far the Mesa barbecue sauce that is a component of that recipe is fantastic, although the recipe yield was supposed to be 3 cups and it was barely two cups. That's just poor editing.

Unfortunately many of the celebrity chefs are under pressure to crank out more and more books, and sometimes they do so without really testing the recipes adequately.

I am still hopeful to find a few gems in this book, but I expected a lot more from Flay.

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The owner of two of New York Citys most popular restaurants and star of two Television Food Network cooking shows, Bobby Flay is definitely hot. Now he invites readers into his own backyard to show off his skill at the grill, and hell grill just about anything! Here are more than 125 recipes for mouth watering meat, poultry, and fish dishes, as well as soups and salads that can be prepared partially or completely on the grill. In addition, Flay offers up his own rendition of the perfect burger. Grilling has long been one of the great North American pastimes. Bobby Flay shows why its becoming a national obsession.

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