Off the Eaten Path: Inspired Recipes for Adventurous Cooks

by Bob Blumer

Book Overview

Offers a selection of recipes using common ingredients and simple preparation techniques, and includes ideas on entertaining, from theme parties to a Not Luck dinner, where seven friends each bring an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345421507
• ISBN13: 9780345421500
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.7" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Fun With Food and Bob

The Surreal Gourmet leads the way into fun with food. From a themed meal to fun named dishes, the food here is good and will expand one's entry into gourmetland if you're not there already.What I really enjoy about this guy's work is the energy and enthusiasm he brings to it, which in turn opens up the rest of us who are into doing new things with food and menus and such.The "Drive In" recipes are fun as packages are manifold heated and the "Brown Bag" dinners are the best, especially get into "Sea Bass with Papaya Salsa."Drinks are here too, such as "Raspberry Martini", but please take everyone's keys first.Pepper-Crusted Maple Glazed Salmon is a winner and keeper recipe as well as Grilled Raisin Bread Stilton and Pear Dessertwich!Play with your food and bring Bob along. Good stuff!

Play With Your Food

In "Off The Eaten Path" cookbook author, and closet comedian, Bob Blumer gives you permission to play with your food. Honest! Through very achievable recipes, several unusual techniques, and some of the most comical photos you?ll ever set your eyes on, he demonstrates that cooking doesn't have to be a chore. All this without using bizarre ingredients or equipment, Ok, a dishwasher might be construed as bizarre. Hey! People once thought deep-frying a turkey was weird and now look.I'm still working up the nerve to try "Dishwasher Salmon with Piquant Dill Sauce" but I can swear by "Brown-Bagged Lemon-Tarragon Chicken with Capers". His paper bag technique may just replace the need for expensive parchment paper. I don't like creamed vegetables but "(I Can't Believe It's Not) Creamed Corn" from "Slammin' Salmon Extravaganza" is a keeper especially now that corn is in season. It is pure creamy sweet goodness.There may be a lifted recipe or two in the "Extreme Cuisine" chapter but that's one chapter and there's so much more to this book.

Pressed-Cheese Sandwiches, anyone?

I recently got to meet Bob at a book signing and had a chance to taste two recipes- the Shrimp on the Bar-B (grilled shrimp in a chipotle dry rub arranged around a Barbie doll) and grilled asparagus. Truly AWESOME food. I've had the chance to make some of the recipes in the book already and can't wait for the next opportunity to try one. Maybe some time this weekend I'll try cooking the lemongrass shrimp on the car engine. There aren't a lot of recipes in the book, but Bob tends to emphasize quality over quantity; all of the recipes are incredibly easy and unlike a lot of cookbooks out there that offer easy cooking but leave you wishing you had made reservations instead, the results are invariably as good or better than your local expensive restaurant.By the way, in case you're wondering what a pressed-cheese sandwich is, it's just like a classic grilled cheese except that you cook it with your iron. If you want that know how and all kinds of other great information (like taking the luck out of a potluck party), Off the Eaten Path is waiting for you.

Best recipe book

I feel weird about writing a review for a recipe book, but this book is so extremely well thought out and put together, that it's worth it and I must. This book is thought out and put together in both content and style. It's a piece of art, but it's packed with real substance: that is to say, the recipes are extremely tasty! There aren't a ton of recipes here, which is a good thing because the author obviously got the chance to use only his favorites. This is a beautiful, beautiful book and I urge you to buy it if you like buying recipe books, or even if you don't - make this your first! Trust me!

Fun and tasty!

This is much more than a cookbook--it is an adventure unto itself. Blumer's art and writing make this book fun to read, even if you don't want to try the recipes. But once you sample these recipes, you'll be hooked. As a non-cook, I have tried preparing several of the recipes for my wife. Everything we have tried has been incredibly delicious. And to top it off, the recipes are very forgiving--if you make a mistake, the dishes still turn out fine! Give this cooking adventure a try!