Biker Billy Cooks with Fire [Hardcover]

Bill Hufnagle (Author)

Book Description

Each week thousands of viewers tune in to watch Billy roar around the kitchen in his black T-shirt and shades, tossing peppers over his shoulders and lobbing eggshells toward the trash. In his first book, Billy invites you to climb aboard for a culinary road trip as he gets the lead out with a sizzling collection of recipes for every meal of the day. These quick, full-flavored recipes are loaded with "fire" (a code word for some of the hottest peppers available), but Biker Billy's cuisine is not about torturing the tongue -instead he creates snappy, memorable dishes, such as Lucifer's Angel Pasta, Spanokopita Diablo, Stuffed Shells from Hell, Blender Blaster Pie, and others that provide a real adventure for the taste buds. Rounding out this unique cookbook is a liberal sprinkling of biker banter, motorcycle tips, and ultrahip photographs that bring the joy and gusto of the open road into your kitchen.

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About the Author

Bill Hufnagle aka Biker Billy, is the star and producer of Biker Billy Cooks with Fire. The co-owner of Vidlo Video in New York, he is often spotted riding his motorcycle in his hometown of Madison, New Jersey.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Morrow Cookbooks; 1st edition (August 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0688140637
• ISBN-13: 978-0688140632
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,767,579 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Possibly the best cookbook of the many I own, August 12, 1999

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Me in 2008 "Message For You" (Jupiter, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Biker Billy Cooks with Fire (Hardcover)

When I first saw this book in a store, I thought it was a grill cookbook. I read the back, saw that it was devoted to hot n' spicy cooking, and bought it on a whim. I found it to be perhaps the best cookbook I own. I usually feel that a meal isn't complete without meat, but these recipes are so flavorful and interesting that I don't miss it. The recipes range from simple to exotic and all are, in my experience, exceptional. I have recommended this book to many friends, most of whom have bought more copies to give to friends. I wholeheartedly recommend Kiss of the Devil Hot Cocoa, Blueberry Pancakes from Hell, Black Bean Burritos, and Hot Potato Corn Chowder. Trust me, they're all unique and exceptional. Thanks, Mr. Hufnagle, for sharing these recipes! Hope for a follow-up soon! ALLRIGHT!!!

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great entry into cooking with peppers, June 20, 2000

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Tom Tuerff (That there Phoenix place) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Biker Billy Cooks with Fire (Hardcover)

Cooking hot and spicy food is always a challenge; one man's endorphin rush is another man's journey into culinary hell.

Still, Biker Billy, no stranger to hot peppers of every variety and intensity, manages to create some of the most tasty--and mind you, HOT--dishes known to man. The best of them he's compiled into this book.

I've made several of the dishes in here (my personal favorite is Gingerbread Bikers from Hell), and the results, as seen on various friends and members of my family, are always mixed. The hotheads are always remarkably pleased; the rest will gamely take a taste and then stare at the rest of us like we have horns growing out of our heads.

If you've ever seen Biker Billy's show, you know he's a vegetarian; an OVERWEIGHT vegetarian. This is sort of hard to do, but you'll notice that while Mr. Hufnagle eschews meat, he's not shy about using cow by-products like cheese and butter. (In spicy cooking, except for Asian food, dairy is almost required; it tends to lessen the fire in peppers, and when you're dealing with habaneros and the like, dairy is a MUST. Asian cooking is another story.) That said, as long as you're not cooking with fire every day of the week, this book will provide you with some fantastic meat-free meals that will surprise you with all the flavors that the peppers help to bring out.

Biker Billy makes preparation a breeze with easy-to-understand directions, and the fun-to-read filler around the recipes proves Mr. Hufnagle to be a fine author, too. So order this book now, and the next time some unwanted visiting relative expects you to serve him blueberry pancakes, you can put a little surprise in there for him!

Now, can somebody get this guy a show on the Food Network, please?

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fires Up the veggie diet for the manly biker in all of us!, September 7, 1998

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[e-mail] (Katy, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Biker Billy Cooks with Fire (Hardcover)

Met Biker Billy at his in-person demo at Mancuso's Harley-Davidson in Houston; ate his samples; and have to have the book! If this is your first venture into the world of peppers, please make the cooling dip first! The recipes contained are easy, fun and delicious. An entertaining book to heat up the kitchen by. Are you a manly enough biker, or just a wanna-be?