Barbecue or Cooking with Texas Highways

Barbecue (101 Essential Tips Series)

Author: Marlena Spieler

From preparing the fire to recipes for special marinades, this step-by-step guide breaks down barbecuing skills into 101 easy tips.

Handy guides that use pictures to give readers the information they need, 101 Essential Tips feature comprehensive coverage, beautiful full-color images, and straightforward, practical information on a wide variety of subjects. Every point can be absorbed quickly and easily with 101 authoritative tips that will make anyone an expert in an instant.

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Cooking with Texas Highways

Author: Nola McKey

From reviews of the Texas Highways Cookbook:

"This is the quintessential Texas cookbook."

—Books of the Southwest

"The oversize format, lovely color landscape photographs and...intelligent text are consistent with the cookbook's estimable fare."

—Publishers Weekly

Whether you're hungry for down-home barbecue and Tex-Mex, or you want to try more exotic dishes such as Paella Valenciana and Thai Pesto, Texas Highways has long been a trusted source for delicious recipes that reflect wide-ranging Lone Star tastes. The state's official travel magazine published its first Texas Highways Cookbook, which has sold 20,000 copies, in 1986. Responding to the public's demand for a new collection of the magazine's recipes, the editors are pleased to bring you Cooking with Texas Highways, a compilation of more than 250 recipes that are as richly diverse and flavorful as Texas itself.

Cooking with Texas Highways samples all the major ethnic cuisines of the state with recipes from home cooks, well-known chefs, and popular restaurants. It offers a varied and intriguing selection of snacks and beverages, breads, soups and salads, main dishes, vegetables and sides, sauces and spreads, desserts, and more. A special feature of this cookbook is a chapter on Dutch-oven cooking, which covers all the basics for cooking outdoors with live coals, including seventeen mouth-watering recipes. In addition, you'll find dozens of the lovely color photographs that have long madeTexas Highways such a feast for the eyes, along with tips on cooking techniques and sources for ingredients and stories about some of the folks who created the recipes. If you want to sample all the tastes of Texas, there's no better place to start than Cooking with Texas Highways.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Foreword	xi
	State Fare: An Introduction	xiii
	Snacks & Beverages	1
	Breads	27
	Soups & Salads	49
	Main Dishes	79
	Vegetables & Sides	159
	Sauces, Spreads, & More	175
	Desserts	189
	Dutch-Oven Dishes	223
	Index	245