Here is cooking at its most primal?using natural elements to create foods imbued with flavor, touched by fire, and licked with smoke! Inspired by the Native art of plank-grilling, this modern method adapts itself to the home grill where seasoned meats, fish and seafood cook slowly in their own oils and flavors and aromas not found in any other form of cooking. This is the definitive modern guide to an elemental (not to mention fun) culinary art using woods, hot stones, and rocks.
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Modern Grill & Garden will inspire you to make the most of your outdoor space. Whether your garden is a rooftop terrace, a tiny patio, a spacious lawn or a nearby park, you can turn it into a fresh and exciting retreat to entertain and dine with your family and friends. Grill breakfast on a summer morning, enjoy a cozy winter gathering and embark on a midnight tryst that will have you sowing wildflowers, star gazing and remember what life is all about when we take the time to live it well. As is essential to the Modern series, you’ll find plenty of Martha’s signature hip tips – each longer on style than on time – and an extensive resource guide to food, gardening supplies, tableware and outdoor furnishings.
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Chicken on a beer can? You bet! When Steven Raichlen, America’s barbecue guru, say’s it’s the best grilled chicken he’s ever tasted, cooks stop and listen. The perfect gift and an essential addition to every grill jockey’s library, Beer Can Chicken presents 75 must-try beer-can variations and other offbeat recipes for the grill, each with one criterion–it’s got to have a Wow! factor. Wow! means Saigon Chicken with Lacquered Skin and Spicy Peanut Sauce. Root Beer Game Hens. Beer-Can Turkey. Wow! means Stoned Chicken (it’s cooked under a brick), Dirty Steak, Fish on a Board (Salmon with Brown Sugar Glaze), Mussels Eclade–grilled under pine needles. Wow! means Potatoes Roasted in the Embers, Grilled Eggs, Wacky Ramaki, Rotisseried Garlic Rolls–even Grilled Yellow Pepper Soup. Whether on a can, on a stick, under a brick, in a leaf, on a plank, or in the embers, each grilling technique is explained in easy-to-follow steps, with recipes that guarantee no matter how crazy the technique, the results are always outstanding. So pop a cold one and have fun.
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