The Kamado Smoker and Grill (cookbook review)

If you are looking for a cookbook that takes you from soup to nuts explaining things that both the novice and the seasoned outdoor cook can appreciate then this is the book for you. This book is filled with recipes that everyone can appreciate.

Tips, everyone wants tips and tricks and you will find them numbered and with a nice large banner so you know where they are. Don't know what reverse searing is? You will find the answer in this book.

While the book is loaded with pictures and step by step visual instructions I do think there could have been a few full page images of some of these delicious dishes. All in all this is a great cookbook and you don't necessarily have to have a Kamado Smoker to benefit from all the good advice as these tips and techniques have cross over to any backyard grill set up that you may have. Go out an pick up a copy.


I received a free copy of this book to review and secondly the author is one of my colleagues as a Char-Broil AllStar.

Giveaway - Yup - stuff for free!

Julie Reinhardt has a great cookbook - and this one is signed not only by the author herself but by the grand champion of all things pork Danielle "Diva Q" Dimovksy and its easy breezy to win it - all you have to do is go to Julie's blog or website and leave a comment pertaining to the post you are commenting on ...but you have to weave in that you want the book. I know this sounds super simple because it is, we were going to create this long list of quirks and facts about Julie and make you memorize each and everyone of them then Pin them and Tweet them and create a Facebook page that you could LIKE and make you jump through hoops and then sleep on a bed of nails, this seemed easier. BUT.....here is the catch - on this post you have to say the ONE thing that I have in common with these two women, only the correct answers will be eligible for the drawing. GOOD LUCK!

Bobby Flay is in the house! - so to speak - its a giveaway

What would be the next best thing to having Bobby Flay in your kitchen? That would be having Bobby Flay in your kitchen thats what! Its the 15th anniversary of the Mohegan Sun and I am giving away a signed cookbook by Bobby Flay! You might have had a chance to eat at his restaurant Bar Americain well now you have a chance to win a signed Bar Americain cookbook!



Check out some of the fun.

So how can you win? Easy. Leave a comment telling me why this would be the coolest thing in your kitchen because the coolest thing in your kitchen now is_____________? I will pick the best one and if they are all good then I will use random.org because I am fair like that. Good Luck!

Disclaimer: I wasnt compensated in any way to give this cookbook away - I did it because I wanted to.

I said Great!

As it turns out its called "American Womens Cookbook" It started off in like 1938 and this beat up copy is from 1956. I dont know how much or if anything changed between printings but it was printed for almost 20 years. This is a 'how to' book if it isnt anything else, come on it has the coolest thumb tabs.




You are immediatly welcomed by an oppulent photograph of some fondants or petit fours or what kind of sweet thing, on the inside cover.




after you thumb through a bit you start finding things like this.





Keep on flipping and you might find this.





The fried delight on the left top is a carrot. (sorry blurry, in
fact all are blurry so sorry for all but I like do one or two
offs and if it isnt right I move on)





I dont even know whats on this page but I will post the
reindeer one now....can you believe it reindeer...warning-
its bllllurrrry.

But not before a meat check.




All on point. ready Reindeer. This alone could turn
me into a vegetarian...but it wont.





blurry..but reindeer...come on american women
what is going on here?

life with out a maid





I guess thats just the icing on the cake.




And merrily we roll along, roll along, roll along.