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Summary: Not Just a Cookbook
Review: 10 days ago my wife and I were in Abilene and our host, Aaron Waldrop, took us to eat at Tom Perini's Steakhouse. Since this isn't a restaurant review, I won't tell you about the food except the bread pudding. I don't like it very much so I decided to share some with my wife. Bad mistake. It's hard to describe in words. Aaron bought Tom's book for my wife. Five days ago, we had a BBQ on the opening day of dove season (Sept. 1). We used Tom's recipe for potato salad and his rubs for the ribs and brisket. We are still getting phone calls and emails about the food. One more thing: this is a great book to just sit down and read. As others have said, the photography is great and the stories are informative, humorous and historical. This is not just a cookbook. Man, I can't wait to get some more of that bread puddin'.
Rating:
Summary: Not Just a Cookbook
Review: 10 days ago my wife and I were in Abilene and our host, Aaron Waldrop, took us to eat at Tom Perini's Steakhouse. Since this isn't a restaurant review, I won't tell you about the food except the bread pudding. I don't like it very much so I decided to share some with my wife. Bad mistake. It's hard to describe in words. Aaron bought Tom's book for my wife. Five days ago, we had a BBQ on the opening day of dove season (Sept. 1). We used Tom's recipe for potato salad and his rubs for the ribs and brisket. We are still getting phone calls and emails about the food. One more thing: this is a great book to just sit down and read. As others have said, the photography is great and the stories are informative, humorous and historical. This is not just a cookbook. Man, I can't wait to get some more of that bread puddin'.
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Summary: Great for any cook's library
Review: Besides having a wide variety of Texas style meals that fit into any dining situation, this book is full of great tips on how to prepare and work with various ingredients. For the longest time, I could never grill steak like they do in the steak house restaurants (I am talking the high end places). Even the best steaks at the market did not come out well. Using Tom Perini's recomendations, cooking times and seasonings, I have mastered the great steak! Thumbs up to this book!
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Summary: Great for any cook's library
Review: Besides having a wide variety of Texas style meals that fit into any dining situation, this book is full of great tips on how to prepare and work with various ingredients. For the longest time, I could never grill steak like they do in the steak house restaurants (I am talking the high end places). Even the best steaks at the market did not come out well. Using Tom Perini's recomendations, cooking times and seasonings, I have mastered the great steak! Thumbs up to this book!
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Summary: You Too Can Cook Like a Cowboy (And Cowboys Can Cook)
Review: By Bob Schieffer We're Texans and knew Texas Cowboy Cooking would be for us but we put it to the ultimate test: we had a dinner party, made sure we invited no one from below the Mason-Dixon line and served only food described in this book. And the answer is..they licked their plates clean and would have eaten more if it had been there. I call that a real final answer. My wife Pat who is the chief cook and bottle washer at our Washington D.C. corral served up a tenderloin done up in the dry rub described in the book and surrounded it with hominy and green chilis, black eyed peas with okra after a gazpacho start. We finished off with the peach crisp. Comments ranged from Wow! to Hot Damn! (actually that last one came from me) and we're talking people who had never seen hominy. Most of all this is a book about cooking meat and Author Tom Perini may know more about it than anyone on earth. If you can find a fire and a good or even an average piece of meat he can show you how to make it taste better than anything you've ever put in your mouth. But like his combo of jalapenos and hominy, he'll also introduce you to some dishes you may never have heard of and every one is better than the next one. The bonus here is that you could throw all the recipes out and this would still be a great coffee table book filled with terrific pictures of Texas Ranch life. Buy this book. We can't all live on a ranch but we can sure eat like cowboys.
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Summary: You Too Can Cook Like a Cowboy (And Cowboys Can Cook)
Review: By Bob Schieffer We're Texans and knew Texas Cowboy Cooking would be for us but we put it to the ultimate test: we had a dinner party, made sure we invited no one from below the Mason-Dixon line and served only food described in this book. And the answer is..they licked their plates clean and would have eaten more if it had been there. I call that a real final answer. My wife Pat who is the chief cook and bottle washer at our Washington D.C. corral served up a tenderloin done up in the dry rub described in the book and surrounded it with hominy and green chilis, black eyed peas with okra after a gazpacho start. We finished off with the peach crisp. Comments ranged from Wow! to Hot Damn! (actually that last one came from me) and we're talking people who had never seen hominy. Most of all this is a book about cooking meat and Author Tom Perini may know more about it than anyone on earth. If you can find a fire and a good or even an average piece of meat he can show you how to make it taste better than anything you've ever put in your mouth. But like his combo of jalapenos and hominy, he'll also introduce you to some dishes you may never have heard of and every one is better than the next one. The bonus here is that you could throw all the recipes out and this would still be a great coffee table book filled with terrific pictures of Texas Ranch life. Buy this book. We can't all live on a ranch but we can sure eat like cowboys.
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Summary: A Great Cookbook
Review: I got this book about a week before the 4th of July (a holiday that my family and I don't really celebrate). However I thought I would be adventurous and festive and wanted to attempt to make some traditional American food. Not knowing where to start, I bought a bunch of different American-style cookbooks, including "Texas Cowboy Cooking", which in the end blew all the other cookbooks away. The recipes were easy to follow and well written. There were lots of pictures of the different dishes, as well as stories behind some of the dishes and how/where they originated. Contrary to what one might think, when imagining the combination of cowboys and cooking, this cookbook offers more than just the predictable, standard steak and ribs type of dishes. There are lots of different kinds of entrees, salads, desserts, cocktails, appetizers, etc. Each dish has its own distinctive flavor. I highly recommend this cookbook to anybody who enjoys cooking and eating.
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Summary: Food Even a City Slicker Can Love!!
Review: I was given this book as a gift and it is one of my favorite cookbooks -- even though I grew up and still live in a city! The tenderloin w/rub and fruit crisp have become two of my summer staples. The recipies are easy, delicious, and fun! Give it as a gift or buy it for yourself and enjoy the stories, photos and recipies.
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Summary: Food Even a City Slicker Can Love!!
Review: I was given this book as a gift and it is one of my favorite cookbooks -- even though I grew up and still live in a city! The tenderloin w/rub and fruit crisp have become two of my summer staples. The recipies are easy, delicious, and fun! Give it as a gift or buy it for yourself and enjoy the stories, photos and recipies.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: Love the recipes. We fell in love with beef all over again, even my 3 picky eaters (all under 10)love this book! The recipes in this book make plain old meat and potatoes into a grand feast.
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