Red, Hot and Green [Paperback]

Janet Hazen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 1996

Now everyone, vegetarian or not, can enjoy the heat--and skip the meat--with this lively companion to the bestselling Hot, Hotter, Hottest and Turn It Up!. Acclaimed cookbook author Janet Hazen serves up a blistering assortment of 50 spicy recipes for appetizers, soups, salads, entrees, and desserts from around the world. 35 color photos.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

This good-looking paperback provides an array of meatless recipes using chilies, peppercorns, mustards, horseradish and ginger. The food is decidedly Californian. Dishes also show a wealth of ethnic influences. In some recipes, Hazan seems to be reaching, but she hits her stride in dishes like Apple-Carrot Slaw with Ginger-Mint Dressing and Potato-Horseradish Croquettes. Dishes are rated for heat. The nuclear 10+ of Angelic Beans with Sauce of the Devil will send even hot-hounds into a meltdown of endorphins.

From Publishers Weekly

Stoking the fires with ingredients she advanced in Hot, Hotter, Hottest, Hazen again finds inspiration internationally, although this time without meat. Fat, however, is something to watch here. Chinese Vegetable Eggrolls with Mustard Sauce, Triple-Mustard Mushroom Fritters and Potato-Horseradish Croquettes call for deep-frying or frying in abundant oil. Tofu stars in two recipes, while an unusual ingredient, a full seven-ounce jar of marshmallow cream, adds texture and a load of sugar to each of three desserts: Frozen Ginger-Peach Yogurt with Cinnamon, Frozen White Chocolate Mousse with Black Pepper and Frozen Chocolate Silk with Ancho Chilies. Hazen marries novel tastes with zeal, as in Horseradish-Sesame Rice Balls with Cucumber; Ginger-Glazed Yam Cakes with Raisins and Walnuts; and Caramelized Shallot, Fig and Ginger Conserve. Recipes are rated by heat quotient from a mild 1 (Mustard-Glazed Pumpkin Wedges) to an incendiary 10+ (Angelic Beans with Sauce of the Devil). The latter blazes with two anchos, one chipotle, three red jalape?os and 16 (yes, 16) haba?eros.
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Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books; 1St Edition edition (April 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811810526
• ISBN-13: 978-0811810524
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,287,423 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A really great cookbok, February 27, 2000

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Amy Droitcour (Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red, Hot and Green (Paperback)

This is really an excellent cookbook. I've had it for about a year, and I've made several of the recipes in it for my friends and family, and gotten rave reviews every time. The recipes are all pretty time consuming, so they are best when you are entertaining and are willing to invest the time to get an extraordinary dinner. The recipes use all fresh ingredients (nothing canned or prepared) -- the pumpkin bisque is made from real pumpkins and the polenta is made from cornmeal. The recipes, though vegetarian, are mostly not vegan and not healthy, (lots of oil, cream, and/or cheese in most of them) but as I said before, it isn't an everyday cookbook to begin with, so the health factor is not a huge issue. If you like spicy food and occasionally make an elaborate meal, buy it, even if you aren't a vegetarian.

1.0 out of 5 stars Missing pages!, July 28, 2010

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This review is from: Red, Hot and Green (Paperback)

I was shocked when I got this book and was looking through the pages (by the way, the recipes themselves look good) to find that it was MISSING several pages!!!! I wrote to Amazon but all they did was give me a partial refund! THAT does not help me make the recipes with missing directions! I will look for this book in a bookstore and check it carefully before buying it again.