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Originally Posted by Dayze
hmmm. I have a few still in storage, but of the ones I have in my kitchen, Gordon Ramsay's "Fast Food" gets used quite a bit. It's a play on Rachael Ray's 30 Minute Meals...but these don't suck.
I have an Alton Brown book that is great, but I haven't had a lot of time to go through it and try very many recipes. Other than his steak recipe cooked via a 500 degree cast iron sear etc, followed by a deglaze of blue cheese using brandy and some other goodies.
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Never seen any of Ramsay's books, but I did a play on a recipe he did on live TV once (it was like three months later and totally from memory) and it turned out great.
Ray's first cookbook has a couple good ones in it. Her's is the basis for my carbonara. I liked her show for a while, and I'll always give her props for being the only cook on Food Network that actually cooked in the time slot - by all accounts, she does everything in that 30 Minute Meals show she used to do within the time period, and if she screwed up either went with it or they started shooting the episode over. But she's way over-exposed. Not like Guy Fieri over-exposed (FN does like 9 straight hours of DDD a couple times a week), but over-exposed nonetheless.
I enjoy Brown's books more for the science than recipes. They're like reading an episode of Good Eats.