Grilling for Dummies or Easy Livin Microwave Cooking

Grilling for Dummies

Author: John Mariani

What could be better than mixing great food and the great outdoors? Grilling For Dummies brings together two favorite pastimes—cooking and eating—into one easy-to-understand book teeming with tried-and-true barbecuing tips and tasty, mouthwatering recipes. Here's the best place to discover or improve your grilling skills:

• Explore the tools of the trade—what you need, and what you don't
• Select different types of grills based on their advantages and drawbacks
• Use hardwoods, charcoal, briquettes, self-igniting coals, and flavoring woods
• Check out a Griller's Glossary to mastering the inside lingo on grill-speak
• Season your grilled delights with spices, herbs, sauces, rubs, and marinades

Authors and grill gurus Marie Rama and John Mariani include a list of their favorite BBQ shacks around the country, and they offer ten timely tips for hosting successful outdoor patio or tailgate parties. And Grilling For Dummies features more than 130 tantalizing recipes—including recipes for sauces and side dishes (as well as health-conscious recipes for low-fat cuisine)—that enable you to prepare an infinite variety of gastronomic marvels on the grill!

What People Are Saying

Alfred Portale
Here is a wealth of information for turning the great American cooking machine into a tool for creating contemporary, sophisticated dishes. -- Chef-Author of Gotham Bar and Grill Cookbook

See also: Turn up the Heat with G Garvin or Complete Indian Cooking

Easy Livin' Microwave Cooking: The New Microwave Primer

Author: Karen Kangas Dwyer

This microwave primer will show you why you bought a microwave oven in the first place: to save time, money and energy at every meal, every day. Karen Dwyer has created more than 200 recipes that require minimal preparation and commonly available ingredients to make great-tasting: appetizers, fish, meat, and poultry, dishes, casseroles, breakfast foods, vegetables and fruits, candies and desserts, and more. Designed with beginnings cooks in mind, the book features microwave cooking time charts for various foods, a simple explanation of how the microwave ovens. With dozens of tips on making the most of your microwave oven, Easy Livin' helps anyone prepare attractive, satisfying family meals in minutes instead of hours.

Publishers Weekly

Cooking instructor Dwyer dishes up unpretentious recipes with a premium on speed and ease of preparation. Introductory material effectively explains the use of microwave ovens and, whether identifying the magnetron tube or describing how to soften brown sugar, comments are clear and concise. Additional tips are interspersed throughout: frosting can be turned into glaze by adding milk; a red citrus drink is well-suited to holiday entertaining. Dwyer emphasizes everyday fare, such as hamburger, macaroni and tomato casserole or Polish sausage cooked in beer, and offers a few lighter meals for calorie-watchers, including fish fillets prepared with vegetables and a meat loaf with ground turkey. However, this is no diet book: its rich fudge brownies and utterly decadent pralines can be made so simply and quickly as to be dangerous. Dwyer favors convenience foods, using potato mix in her potatoes and broccoli au gratin, both Jello and cake mixes in her rhubarb cake, and dry onion-soup mix for most beef entrees. Illustrations not seen by PW. (Aug.)