A Man A Can A Tailgate Plan 50 Easy Game Time Recipes That Are Sure to Please
September 15, 2009 by Outdoor Cooking · Leave a Comment
A Man A Can A Tailgate Plan 50 Easy Game Time Recipes That Are Sure to Please
User Ratings and Reviews
1 Star Are you kidding?
With a 5 star rating, I just knew that this would be a great book. What a joke!! Very disappointed and wish I had my money back!
5 Stars Excellent Book!
This is an excellent book for that “special man” in your life — whether it be a husband, brother, son, etc.!! The recipes are really so simple, which makes is much more enjoyable for men!
5 Stars Perfect Cookbook for Men and Women!
This is a great cookbook for anyone who is learning how to cook, or for someone who wants quick simple recipes!
Very few ingrediant recipes, that also include pictures of the ingrediants needed, such as a can of tuna. It gives a new cook a picture so they know what to look for at the store.
The recipes are also created so that they are healthy, which is always what I am looking for.
I would recomend this cookbook for anyone!
4 Stars good food, easy recipes
For Xmas, I gave the Man & Can series to my college-age sons who are moving into “landlord” housing this semester. These cookbooks, with their easy to follow, illustrated recipes, prove that cooking is not hard and can be fun! Cooking for yourself is a lot cheaper and healthier than fast food. These cookbooks give them a place to start! They were really tickled with the gift, even though, their buddies thought it a bit odd. My sons told me that their buddies will appreciate the books, too, once they are eating the good food made from them!
5 Stars A great cookbook!
I just bought this cookbook at my son’s book fair this afternoon and am already loving it! The recipes are easy, fast and completely tailored after a man’s appetite requirements (think meat and potatoes) . Since I am the only female in a house of men, this type of cookbook is exactly what I was looking for. It contains 50 simple meals and snacks that men will adore-what more could a woman ask for? Buy this if you want the man in your life to be amazed at your sudden culinary skills or to give to a college bound son or nephew who is in need of fast, easy, filling fare.
Cooking in a Can More Campfire Recipes for Kids Acitvities for Kids
August 3, 2009 by Outdoor Cooking · Leave a Comment
Cooking in a Can More Campfire Recipes for Kids Acitvities for Kids
Have you ever made breakfast in a paper bag? Baked a cake underground? Cooked chicken on a hot rock? In this book, you’ll learn how to do this and much more. Make your campout, backyard barbecue, or scouting trip something to remember with great food like Jackrabbit Bean Burgers, Marmot Munchies, and Wilderness Chocolate Cake. You’ll learn how to cook using everything from an open fire, grill, and Dutch oven to a paper bag, hollowed-out orange, and garbage can! Plus learn how to make a cooking gear corral, pinecone fire starter, cooking apron, solar sill for drinking water, your own family banner, and more! Get ready for some great food and outdoor fun! Cooking in a Can is the perfect activity book for kids who love to camp and cook! Cooking in a Can follows Cooking on a Stick (now over 63,000 copies sold), and introduces dozens of techniques for cooking outside.
User Ratings and Reviews
2 Stars Don’t let the title fool you
I remember cooking meals in a can when I was little, so I was excited to order this book for my husband, who is our son’s Cubmaster. However I was disappointed (and maybe I didn’t read the reviews close enough) to find that there are very few actual recipes for cooking in a can.
5 Stars Very cute, and useful too
This is a really cute and useful book. It has a lot of color illustrations to make it very attractive for a child to read. Also, the concept of cooking over your campfire — or over several different types of home-made grills that they teach you how to make — is fun and different. This actually seems to be book two of a series — the first looks like it’s called “Cooking on a Stick, Campfire recipes for kids” by Linda White.
Anyway, the chapters are as follows:
Planning and Packing (make a cooking apron)
Setting up Camp (with a craft for making a banner for your site)
Campires (make a wood carrier out of a sweatshirt, and make some different kinds of fire starters)
Cooking on Outdoor Stoves (make a tin-can grill, canyon sandwiches with English muffins, recipe for asparagus “forests”)
Cooking in a (full-sized) garbage can (make a garbage can cooker, make a small “buddy” burner, pizza soup recipe, apple stampede recipe [which is just apple sauce])
Cooking in a paper bag or paper cup (recipe for rise ‘n’ shine breakfast [bacon and eggs in a bag], chocolate on a stick)
Cooking in Leaves and other foods (bean burgers recipe, bloomin’ muffins [muffins you cook in orange peels! how cool!]
Hot rock cooking (sunrise toast and hot rock chicken)
Pit Cooking (fondue and cake)
Solar oven cooking (veggie pie and cookies with granola)
Spit cooking (mushrooms and kebobs)
Dutch oven cooking (stew and cake)
The recipes seem to be well explained and simple enough for kids who are the correct age to actually read the book. (Amazon lists ages 4-8, which from the kid-style illustrations seems right on.) The gimmick of cooking in the woods is fun and safety instructions are included and explained. For example, they explain what makes a good rock to cook on! And they include a long list of supplies and safety equipment, even explaining how to properly — and safely — douse a fire. They also cover “what is safe drinking water?” and how to build the perfect campfire.
For those of you who are Family Fun magazine fans, (I appreciate their crafts and clever ideas), for camping fans, and for cooking fans who would like to try something new with their kids, this book is a fun addition to your library.
