The Beach House Cookbook [Hardcover]

Barbara Scott-Goodman (Author), Rita Maas (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 14, 2005

A great day at the beach calls for great foodespecially delicious, quick dishes that leave time for fun in the sun. Barbara Scott-Goodman serves up more than 75 recipes for sensational meals for those spending a weekend at the coast or for whom the seaside is home. Recipes for appetizers, soups, sandwiches, main courses, salads, desserts, and cocktails feature farmstand fruits and vegetables, fresh fish and shellfish, and meats for the grill that celebrate summer's bounty. Steamed Mussels in Tomato-Fennel Broth and Chicken & Soba Noodle Salad with Spicy Asian Peanut Sauce make for delightful post-beach fare. Fire up the barbecue for Grilled Swordfish with Mango Salsa andvoil!instant backyard beach party. For dessert, Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie or Brownie Sundaes with Raspberry Sauce are guaranteed to please. With photos that capture the beauty of both the coast and the cuisine, The Beach House Cookbook offers all the right ingredients for fabulous diningwith an ocean view.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

She serves seafood down by the seashore--and it's darn good. Scott-Goodman's book is a tribute to the sort of beautiful, delicious, fresh, healthy food best enjoyed after a day at the beach. The author of The Garden Entertaining Cookbook shares appetizers like Really Good Clams Casino and salads and sides that make the most of summer vegetables (Cherry Tomato, Basil & Feta Cheese Salad). She then presents luscious--though relatively unfussy--main courses, including soups (Gazpacho with Grilled Shrimp & Corn), sandwiches (Lobster Rolls), pastas (Linguine with Spicy Red Clam Sauce) and numerous fish and shellfish dishes that offer fabulous treatments of flounder, salmon, snapper, swordfish, trout, tuna, clams, lobster and mussels. Scott-Goodman favors simple cooking methods, so there's lots of grilling, and most of the ingredients her recipes call for are fairly common in beach communities (things don't get much fancier than coconut milk for Thai Barbecued Chicken, and fresh tarragon for Lobster & Roasted Vegetable Salad with Garlic Vinaigrette). Landlubbers will be pleased with the nonseafood fare, which includes burgers, Cornish hen and lamb chops, and cocktail party hosts will find plenty of inspiration for finger foods (Mini-Crab Cakes with Cherry Tomato & Corn Salsa) and beverages (White Rum & Lime Sea Breezes). Even just browsing through this lovely book--which brims with color photos of the succulent food--is a treat.
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About the Author

Barbara Scott-Goodman is an author, art director, and designer of many cookbooks including The Garden Entertaining Cookbook (0-8118-2956-1). She lives with her family in Granite Springs, New York.

Rita Maas is a New York City based photographer specializing in food and still life. Her work has appeared in Gourmet , Parents , and Health magazines.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 156 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (April 14, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811843084
• ISBN-13: 978-0811843089
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #78,169 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #29 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Cooking by Ingredient > Meat, Poultry & Seafood > Seafood
  • #79 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Outdoor Cooking

More About the Author

Barbara Scott-Goodman is the author, co-author, and designer of 14 cookbooks, including The Beach House Cookbook, The Vineyard Cookbook, The Ski Country Cookbook, and The Diabetes Menu Cookbook, a 2007 James Beard Award nominee. Her recipes have appeared in other cookbooks: Bon Appetit: Fast, Easy, Fresh, Soup's On, Smith & Hawken Gardeners' Community Cookbook, and The New York Cookbook and in Bon Appetit, Coastal Living, and Martha Stewart Everyday Food magazines.

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I use this book all the time., June 27, 2005

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Cooking Gal (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Beach House Cookbook (Hardcover)

I love the Beach House Cookbook. It's filled with summer classics with a twist like the BLT salad with buttermilk blue cheese dressing which was a great hit. This is a real staple cookbook for me this summer. I've given it as a host gift a couple of times. My hosts loved the delicious photography and were inspired to cook from its easy recipes.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Seafood - who could ask for more?, June 30, 2005

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Virginia Allain "(retired librarian)" (Poinciana, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Beach House Cookbook (Hardcover)

The table of contents started me drooling (look in the See-Inside-the-Book above). The book makes good use of readily available seafood plus fresh fruits (for fruit cobbler or a sundae). Sure, the recipes may be found in a variety of cookbooks, but this pulls together the ones you want while at the ocean.
A few recipes use ingredients that I wouldn't have on hand (capers, chickpea flour), but most are straight forward. The color photographs really whet your appetite.
This was favorably reviewed by the Baltimore Sun saying it "captures the evocative moods of summer."

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Take this to the farmers' market!, September 30, 2005

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VA Reader (Annandale, VA, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Beach House Cookbook (Hardcover)

We bought a copy of this for our beach house hosts and liked it so much I had to get one for home, too. As another (more negative) reviewer noted, none of the recipes is earth-shatteringly new, but rather natural combinations of ingredients that you might not come up with on your own and want to try. In this way, the book reminds me of Cucina Fresca or Cucina Rustica, which are similar in sort of simply preparing good, fresh food. The author has a nice, casual writing style. Beautiful pictures, nicely laid out. I use this book a lot along with Italian Vegetarian (Jack Bishop) when I have some produce or a seasonal veg and am wondering how best to use it. Highly recommended.