Recipe of the Week: Kabobs: 52 Easy Recipes for Year-Round Grilling [Paperback]

Sally Sampson (Author), Yunhee Kim (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 27, 2007 | Series: Recipe of the Week

Want new, fun ideas for quick and easy dinners? This full-color cookbook gives you fifty-two delicious, easy-to-prepare recipes [featuring] for beef, pork, chicken, lamb, fish, and vegetarian kabobs, many with intriguing international flavors. Author Sally Sampson, a former writer for Cooks Illustrated magazine, gives you background notes, serving suggestions, and wonderful tips for spicing up your menus with a different kabob every week.

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Tired of eating the same dinners week after week? Looking to spice things up without spending a lot of time and effort? Kabobs are the perfect solution! Easy enough to make on weekdays yet special enough for a party, kabobs span every ethnic cuisine and include almost all food groups, resulting in the perfect meal.

Recipe of the Week: Kabobs gives you fifty-two delicious kabob recipes—a different kabob for every week of the year. Prolific cookbook author Sally Sampson fires up her grill to show you how simple it can be to cut down on cooking time and expand your dinner menu with skewered foods.

Drawing on a variety of international flavors, these inventive dishes feature a wide range of meats, vegetables, and fruits, making for an endless number of tasty combinations. If you're a beef lover, Rosemary Garlic Beef, Beef with Herb Butter, and Horseradish Beef will more than satisfy. Curried Pork with Coconut and Cilantro and Pomegranate Pork add sizzle with spices. Smoked Paprika Chicken and West Indian Chicken with Honey Butter give chicken a new twist. If seafood is what you crave, try the delightful Asian Shrimp, Scallops BLT, and Swordfish with Brown Butter and Chives. You'll also find such tempting fare as Lamb with Rosemary and Mint, Zach Demuth's Tofu Satay, and Portobello Mushrooms with Balsamic Vinaigrette and Shaved Parmesan Cheese.

These are just a sampling of the delights that await you every week. Sampson also includes helpful background notes and serving suggestions with each recipe to make prep and presentation even simpler. For easy, flavorful variety at your dinner table, Recipe of the Week: Kabobs is your year-round companion!

From the Back Cover

Great-tasting kabobs for every week of the year

Need new ideas for dinner? Kabobs are tasty and healthy, and can be prepared in a pinch. This full-color cookbook gives you a year's worth of mouthwatering kabob recipes—from Chicken Tandoori, Five Spice and Lime Beef, and Salmon with Garlic, Herbs, and Pepper Flakes to Marmalade Mustard Pork and Greek Shrimp with Lemon and Feta. For variety, flavor, and fun, kabobs make the meal!

• Fifty-two delicious, easy-to-prepare recipes featuring beef, pork, chicken, lamb, fish, and vegetarian kabobs
• Tips on equipment, grilling, and skewering
• Ideas for selecting spices and preparing the perfect side dishes

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Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (February 27, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471921408
• ISBN-13: 978-0471921400
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 7.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #115,189 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #27 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Regional & International > Middle Eastern
  • #88 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Outdoor Cooking > Barbecuing & Grilling

More About the Author

Sally Sampson is the author of twelve cookbooks, including the Recipe of the Week series, Party Dips!, Souped Up!, Party Nuts!, and the James Beard Award-nominated The $50 Dinner Party. She has coauthored six additional books, including (with chef Todd English): The Olives Table, The Figs Table, and The Olives Dessert Table.

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great ideas for every night of the week!, February 28, 2008

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kiwanissandy "Go Bucks!" (Heart of Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Recipe of the Week: Kabobs: 52 Easy Recipes for Year-Round Grilling (Paperback)

This cookbook is only about 100 pages long so at first you'd think it couldn't possible provide descent meals for every night of the week but it does just that! There are 52 recipes but next time you change out the meat option and it's like a completely new dinner.

There are tips on grillings, tips on skewers, and then a section on necessary kitchen equipment. All the pictures are fantastic photographs, they show the true feel of the dish. Not every recipe has a picture but there are many.

The options are to make the kabobs into salads, or add rice, there are many different international flairs (indian, chinese,etc) so it's like a completely different dish each time; even though the basic premise is a skewer full of meat. There are tofu options as well.

There is a recipe for Asian Shrimp that is too die for. It's very good with nothing more than soy, hoisin, sesame oil, rice vinegar, chili paste and a few other ingredients. Certainly things you'd have on hand in your pantry. You could even use a ziploc baggie and make this a freezer meal and then thaw in the fridge overnight and when you get home put it on some skewers and grill. The picture shows adding broccoli and white rice but you could also serve on a bed of greens for a salad if you'd prefer. The next time around use beef tips with the same ingredients and you'd have another dish. Next time around use pork and so on and so forth.

All the recipes favor fresh herbs over dried but you can substitute dried if that's what you have. Also, there is minimal fat involved as you are grilling rather than frying all the food. And most grilling meals can be completed in under 10 minutes. We've even used our George Foreman with great results.

There is also a recipe for beef with herb butter that is delish. But I could see using swordfish to make this meal and it be just as great. Many of the recipes have a little blurb about where the author first tried the dish or some other little tidbit of information so it's almost like a friend telling you about her experiences.

Hope you will give this cookbook a try. It's great as far as I'm concerned. I'll have to check out her 52 weeks of cookies next!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pleased! :), August 17, 2011

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Very pleased with this book. I gave it to my boyfriend for his birthday and he loves it! He has made numerous recipes out of it and they have all turned out incredible! Thanks so much!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Mouth-watering recipes!, August 3, 2011

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A winner.......each page encourages one to run out and get the ingredients for tonight's dinner. A real keeper whether grilling indoors (which is my preference) or outdoors.