The Coastal Living Cookbook: The Ultimate Recipe Collection for People Who Love the Coast [Hardcover]

Editors of Coastal Living Magazine (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2004

From Coastal Living magazine comes the first comprehensive coastal cookbook, overflowing with recipes and cooking tips for casual beach weekends, entertaining extravaganzas, and everyday fare. Not just great seafood, but simple table settings, stress-free party plans, cool coastal kitchen tips, grilling guidance, and more. Within these photo-packed pages, you’ll find:

• A dozen casual entertaining menus highlighting fresh seafood from the Pacific, Atlantic, and Gulf coasts. The menus offer wine pairings as well as relaxed party advice from top chefs and home cooks alike. Enjoy a California Salmonfest, a taste of the Gulf Coast, Lowcountry legacy, and a Nantucket beach party. • Recipes for any occasion, including more than 500 selections from seafood to stellar desserts, sizzling appetizers, and garden-fresh salads. Don’t miss our favorite fish dips, crab cakes, potato salads, and homemade ice creams. Relax with this visually stimulating variety of fresh and innovative beach food and beyond. • An extensive Seafood Primer that’s all about putting you at ease when it comes to cooking seafood. It’s a complete A to Z dictionary of popular fish and shellfish. • A red-hot grilling chapter with over 50 recipes for the grill, smoker, and wood plank. Sink your teeth into our Garlic-Skewered Grilled Shrimp, Grilled Sirloin Steak with Stilton Sauce, or Grilled Honey Chicken Wings. • A seafood subject index and a complete recipe index which highlights recipes that are quick & easy, naturally healthy, make ahead, for the grill, for kids, and from chefs.

Whether you love the sand or the sea, shrimp or steak, this premiere Coastal Living Cookbook has recipes for all taste buds and all types of cooks.

• A variety of colorful recipe chapters make up the bulk of the book, with Surf & Turf offering the heartiest fare. Recipes come from both the East and West coasts, with ideas for every season. • Take advantage of the Coastal Living Test Kitchens’ top seafood tips, peruse the Coastal Living pantry, and preview our favorite beach-bound kitchen equipment and coolest kitchen gadgets.

If you love to dream, get carried away with beautiful beach photography and waterfront food. Nearly 400 pages of seaside inspiration await.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Debuting in 1997, Coastal Living is a magazine for people who love the coast.  A national magazine, Coastal Living covers the shorelines and bay areas of the East, West, and Gulf coasts, as well as the Great Lakes.  Coastal Living’s four million readers turn to the magazine each month for inspiring tips about home design, entertaining, cooking, and living a laid-back life.  

Product Details

• Hardcover: 368 pages
• Publisher: Oxmoor House; 1 edition (March 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0848728289
• ISBN-13: 978-0848728281
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 1 x 10.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #611,850 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's the best!, October 26, 2004

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B. Hare (San Jose, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Coastal Living Cookbook: The Ultimate Recipe Collection for People Who Love the Coast (Hardcover)

I've collected cookbooks for over 25 years and this is the best one I've ever seen! The recipes are wonderful, the photographs are gorgeous and even the paper it's printed on is lush! It's a class act!!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Coastal Living - Great Recipes for Everyone, June 8, 2006

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Marybeth Gregg (East Coast) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Coastal Living Cookbook: The Ultimate Recipe Collection for People Who Love the Coast (Hardcover)

"The Coastal Living Cookbook. The Ultimate Recipe Collection for People Who Love the Coast" By Coastal Living, Editor. © 2004 Oxmoor House, Inc. Birmingham Alabama.

If you live along the coast, or wish you did, this is the cookbook for you. Beautifully photographed, this cookbook includes full menus, recipes for the grill, for picnics, for leisurely breakfasts and abundant desserts. Directions are easy and there are even tips like how to host a wine tasting.

Breads include corn bread to Italian Bread Salad, breakfast treats feature Easy Berry pancakes, Baked French Toast Casserole and Strawberry Streusel muffins. Desserts ranging from peanut butter and chocolate chunk cookies to frozen Sangria Pops to Baby Pineapples filled with Pineapple Sherbet.

For entrees, you can choose anything from Marinated Pepper Crusted Beef Tenderloin and Jalapeño Cheeseburgers, to Grilled Chicken and Pesto Clubs, or Southwestern Chicken Bundles.
Ah- then there is fish and seafood. There is a great section titled the Seafood Primer - and describes everything, with recommended cooking techniques, from catfish to caviar to wild salmon. Try the Broiled Clams in Herb Butter, Grilled Alaskan Halibut with Avocado Lime Sauce, or Crab Bisque, Crab Cakes or Crab Rolls. As you can imagine, seafood is covered extensively.
So in this book there really is something for everyone.

This is on my `recommended' list for sure!

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars seafood galore...and more, April 6, 2004

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"saraman" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Coastal Living Cookbook: The Ultimate Recipe Collection for People Who Love the Coast (Hardcover)

Not only are there lots of delicious recipes (I especially like the plank fish recipes), but this cookbook also offers a lot in the way of tips, such as identifying the types of fish, telling how to select seafood, etc. It's really a great resource for anyone who loves seafood.