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Hot Chicken (Hot Books)

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Hot Chicken is terrific. Preparing Hugh's recipes and enjoying the mouthwatering flavors and textures is a true culinary experience! Teri's photos are beautiful and creative. His tips for advance preparation make this perfect for entertaining. Hugh never ceases to amaze...

A real international adventure, this book is organized by techniques - cold salads and hot soup; grilled; in woks and saute pans; crisp and golden from the oven, braises and stews.In between are cooking, storage and safety tips.

Each recipe is presented in two sections; advance preparation and final cooking and concludes with suggested accompaniments. It's hard to turn to a page and not find something to cook. On the grill there's Cowboy Chicken with Ancho Chile Rub or Sizzling Rosemary Mustard Chicken. In the wok, Mongolian Chicken combines tangerine juice with hoisin sauce and hazelnuts and a Creole Tomato Cream Sauce accompanies a chicken saute.

A roasted chicken combines a citrus marinade with winter vegetables and the braised Chicken with Rosemary-Merlot sauce also uses winter vegetables. Asian ingredients from curry and chile to hoisin and oyster sauce meld with more familiar European and Latin flavors - familiar herbs, fruits and wine in unusual combinations that beg to be tried.

Hot Chicken, Hot Pasta, Hot BBQ- I own all 3 of these and have broken the bindings I use so often. If you like a little spice in your life and more in your meals- you can't go wrong. Great recipies and they tell you how to cook as well. I have about 25 cook books and these 3 are the only ones that are easy to reach.

A friend gave me one in the series and it is brilliant. The recipes are not the same old boring ingredients. These recipes are not hot, they are creative, exciting and a delight to serve. In all 4 books, we haven't found one we didn't like. In a kitchen with over 200 cookbooks, we use them all the time to please ourselves and dazzle our guests.

I have a lot of cookbooks, but I tend to fall back on the Hot Chicken cookbook regularly. For a while, I was making my way through the book with an event I called "Friends Thursday". I'd invite different friends over and make one of the dishes from the book. If they were the kind of friends who watched "Friends" we'd set up TV tables and cozy up to the show. If not, I'd socialize over dinner and then watch "Friends" on videotape afterward. I slowly made my way through every recipe in the book.

I bought both Hot Wok and Hot Chicken years ago and am buying them AGAIN now because I have actually worn out my copies. These recipes are authentic, easy to make and absolutely delicious. So happy to find them still in print. Virtually every ingredient can be found in a large supermarket; the illustrations are gorgeous and I have not found a single dish that did not taste remarkable!