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Summary: Great beach read
Review: My cookbook's now all sandy 'cause I spent my summer lounging in near the ocean and reading Bob Blumer's quirky recipes. Call me odd, but maybe you should try it - it was relaxing and made me really excited about all of the recipes.I liked how he split the book into sections, and the 'not luck' dinner was great! The maple salmon recipe looks amazing.. I keep on meaning to try it out, but always put it off. But that's the thing about this cookbook - you don't need to cook from it to enjoy it. The pictures are great, the prose is great, the recipes are great, the food is great. Give it a try - Bob Blumer can really spice up your summer from this book alone.
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Summary: You'll want to eat him up!
Review: Saw Bob on Later Today, and had to buy this book! His creativity is amazing. He is inspired and inspiring. Moreover, he's the cutest guy I have ever seen. Bob, are you single (and straight)? If so, then I urge every woman on the planet to buy your books. Not only will they get great recipes, they'll also have loads of fodder for their fantasies.
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Summary: Fun With Food and Bob
Review: The Surreal Gourmet leads the way into fun with food. From a themed meal to fun named dishes, the food here is good and will expand one's entry into gourmetland if you're not there already. What I really enjoy about this guy's work is the energy and enthusiasm he brings to it, which in turn opens up the rest of us who are into doing new things with food and menus and such. The "Drive In" recipes are fun as packages are manifold heated and the "Brown Bag" dinners are the best, especially get into "Sea Bass with Papaya Salsa." Drinks are here too, such as "Raspberry Martini", but please take everyone's keys first. Pepper-Crusted Maple Glazed Salmon is a winner and keeper recipe as well as Grilled Raisin Bread Stilton and Pear Dessertwich! Play with your food and bring Bob along. Good stuff!
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Summary: Fun With Food and Bob
Review: The Surreal Gourmet leads the way into fun with food. From a themed meal to fun named dishes, the food here is good and will expand one's entry into gourmetland if you're not there already. What I really enjoy about this guy's work is the energy and enthusiasm he brings to it, which in turn opens up the rest of us who are into doing new things with food and menus and such. The "Drive In" recipes are fun as packages are manifold heated and the "Brown Bag" dinners are the best, especially get into "Sea Bass with Papaya Salsa." Drinks are here too, such as "Raspberry Martini", but please take everyone's keys first. Pepper-Crusted Maple Glazed Salmon is a winner and keeper recipe as well as Grilled Raisin Bread Stilton and Pear Dessertwich! Play with your food and bring Bob along. Good stuff!
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Summary: Off This Path Before
Review: The title says it all. Not, not "Off the Eaten Path," but "Manifold Destiny : The One! the Only! Guide to Cooking on Your Car Engine" by Chris Maynard and Bill Scheller. It was published over 10 years ago, I think, and is still available through Amazon. That book started the cooking-on-a-car-engine craze, and it was a big seller when it first came out. I first saw a recipe for poaching fish in the dishwasher in "The Bluefish Cookbook" by Greta Jacobs and Jane Alexander. That cookbook was very popular where I live (here in bluefish country), and once again, there was a time when everyone seemed to be having dinner parties built around fish-a-la-dishwasher. Having said all this, I like Bob Blumer, and his new book isn't bad. It's just that with his more surreal stuff, it's "been there, done that." And if he's heard of those other two books, he ought to give credit where it's due.
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Summary: Cooking outside the box
Review: this is a really fun book. It really changes the way you think about your food. Even if you don't like to cook, Blumer will make you want to get into the kitchen. I've made several of his recipes and they have all been really wonderful. Not to mention providing a springboard to work on my own ideas.
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Summary: Fun and tasty!
Review: This is much more than a cookbook--it is an adventure unto itself. Blumer's art and writing make this book fun to read, even if you don't want to try the recipes. But once you sample these recipes, you'll be hooked. As a non-cook, I have tried preparing several of the recipes for my wife. Everything we have tried has been incredibly delicious. And to top it off, the recipes are very forgiving--if you make a mistake, the dishes still turn out fine! Give this cooking adventure a try!
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Summary: Off This Path Before
Review: When I read the promo for this book, I couldn't believe it. In BEETLES LIGHTLY TOASTED, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor writes of a boy who enters a conservation essay contest with some weird ideas. He cooks fish in the dishwasher, broils hamburgers on the car engine, and makes a grilled cheese using the ironing board and iron.
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Summary: Rip-off of Ideas?
Review: When I read the promo for this book, I couldn't believe it. In BEETLES LIGHTLY TOASTED, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor writes of a boy who enters a conservation essay contest with some weird ideas. He cooks fish in the dishwasher, broils hamburgers on the car engine, and makes a grilled cheese using the ironing board and iron.
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Summary: Dishwasher cooking
Review: When I saw this book I knew I had to buy it. Where else will I find instructions for cooking a salmon in the dishwasher or a trout on my car engine? Much to my husband's dismay I promptly went home and loaded dinner into the dishwasher, added dirty dishes and soap, and voila, an hour later we were dining. I can't wait to try more recipes, and give copies of the book to adventurous friends. My only beef is that the book doesn't say whether to run the dishwasher with heated drying or in energy saver mode.
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