| More Bear Cookin': Bigger And Better | 
 enlarge | Author: Pj Gray
Publisher: CRC
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 201186
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 252
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 1560233265
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5
EAN: 9781560233268
ASIN: 1560233265
Publication Date: October 19, 2005
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Book Description
Make your kitchen more bearable to burly men with big appetites! Loosen your belts and make room for seconds! PJ Gray, author of Bear Cookin': The Original Guide to Bear Comfort Foods, is back with More Bear Cookin': Bigger and Better, serving up another helping of mouth-watering recipes, handy kitchen tips, and tributes to comfort foods. Seasoned with humor and served with a side order of fun, this flavorful collection combines favorites like "Use Your Tool" and "More Bearable Meal Suggestions" from the original book with new food and information features like "Did Ya Know?" and "Kitchen Tips." The book also includes a glossary of cooking technology, recipe measures and equivalencies, and emergency ingredient substitutions. Home-style cooking holds a special place in the hearts (and bellies) of bears, who can take comfort in the hearty fare found in the personal and family recipes presented in More Bear Cookin': Bigger and Better. Find everything you need for three squares a day—and all snacks in between—in sections like "Lip Smackin' Snackin'," "Woofy Breakfast," "More Hearty Sides," "Come-and-Get-It Entrees," "More Bear Meat," and "Way Beyond the Honey Pot." The book offers practical tips about food preparation, cooking and storage, how to cook a holiday turkey, how to work with sugar, syrup, and honey, and refrigerator care and maintenance. More Bear Cookin' also pays loving tribute to the magical powers of peanut butter, eggs, potatoes, cheese, mayonnaise, meat broth, and chocolate, dishes on "Diner Talk" (waiter/waitress lingo), and "Leftover Life" (general rules for food safety), and gives up "The Skinny on Fat" (cooking with fats and oils). More Bear Cookin': Bigger and Better includes such rich, satisfying recipes as: Bachelor Bear Toast White Trash Stash Deep-Fried Twinkies Stay For Breakfast Chocolate Gravy, Baby I-95 Waffles Spam-it, Damn-it Triple Cheese Mac Attack Tailgater Soup Potato Salad from Hell French Fry Pizza Fry Boo Boo's Biscuit Cake (I'm) Nuts Over Chicken and Biscuits Big Fat Greek Spinach Pie Honey, Lick My Chops Flamin Jiffy Steak Classic 7-UP Cake More Bear Cookin': Bigger and Better is a worthy successor to Bear Cookin': The Original Guide to Bear Comfort Foods, adding more recipes, more helpful hints, and more special features to your kitchen.
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Inventive and Charming December 30, 2007
I gave my son "Bear Cookin': The Original Guide to Bear Comfort Foods" and "More Bear Cookin': Bigger and Better " for Christmas. He's moving out this spring for college and I was looking for a couple of cookbooks to kick-start his collection. He knows his way around the kitchen, but his experience is from cooking by my side without written down recipes. I wanted simple homestyle recipes, with no-nonsense ingredients and instructions. He's a big boy, more of a cub than a bear, with a big appetite and I wanted something he would actually use.
These cookbooks deliver exactly what I wanted and more. The recipes were collected from family and friends, delicious and traditional and hearty, with easy to find ingredients and easy to follow instructions. Each recipe is lovingly introduced - the book sprinkled with helpful tips, serving hints, food tributes and the author's down to earth humor and charm. The cookbooks aren't fancy and filled with pretty pictures, but what you do get is something that can actually be used and enjoyed. I would heartily recommend these cookbooks for any cook that appreciates inventive, homestyle cookin'. I've ordered copies for myself.
The "Bigger and Better" is an accurate description of the second cookbook from PJ Gray; the second cookbook includes emergency substitutions, recipe equivalencies and recipe terminology. Haven't tried any of the recipes yet, but several definitely caught my attention. The "Candy Bar Smoothie" is something I wouldn't want to fix on a regular basis, but it's perfect for a special treat. I had to laugh at the "Deep Fried Twinkies" recipe. I'm sure this will be a popular one for my son. I have a secret passion for succotash, so the "My Succotash Wish" will be a favorite indulgence. Then for something a little more substantial - there's a no-frills "Big Fat Greek Spinach Pie," the entertaining and simple "Honey, Lick my Chops" and the interesting "Peanut Butter Beef." Oh, and the "Bali Hai Pie" I'm actually making for dessert tonight! Coconut, pecans and pineapple. Yum!
Can you tell I wrote this review while I was hungry? *grins*
He's Back and BETTER than EVER! April 5, 2006
I purchased the follow-up to "Bear Cookin'" on a whim and was very pleased with the purchase. I found that PJ Gray's writing style and great stories that intertwine with his recipes makes for, not only, good cooking but an overall great read! I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys cooking, especially for groups or parties. The recipes are easy to work with and the ingredients are generally what most people would have in their pantries already, which makes the recipes just that much more appealing. I've already purchased several copies for friends and have recommended this book to many people, from experienced cooks to novices. Definitely a great buy!
good cookin' January 26, 2006
Thank you so much, P.J. you sure know how to please the stomach.
Recipes are tasty and easy to follow. How about more of the same.
Scrumptiously Suprised January 25, 2006
There are cook books and then there are Cook Books! This was not only full of lip-smacking recipes that made my stomach growl but it was also a delight to read! This has definitely earned a place in my kitchen book case.
Thanks for the great insight to the southern way of keeping my man full and satisfied!
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