1st Edition

More Bear Cookin' Bigger and Better

By Pj Gray Copyright 2005
    274 Pages
    by CRC Press

    276 Pages
    by CRC Press

    Make your kitchen more bearable to burly men with big appetites!

    Loosen your belts and make room for seconds! PJ Gray, author of Bear Cookin’: The Original Guide to Bear Comfort Foods, is back with More Bear Cookin’: Bigger and Better, serving up another helping of mouth-watering recipes, handy kitchen tips, and tributes to comfort foods. Seasoned with humor and served with a side order of fun, this flavorful collection combines favorites like “Use Your Tool” and “More Bearable Meal Suggestions” from the original book with new food and information features like “Did Ya Know?” and “Kitchen Tips.” The book also includes a glossary of cooking technology, recipe measures and equivalencies, and emergency ingredient substitutions.

    Home-style cooking holds a special place in the hearts (and bellies) of bears, who can take comfort in the hearty fare found in the personal and family recipes presented in More Bear Cookin’: Bigger and Better. Find everything you need for three squares a day—and all snacks in between—in sections like “Lip Smackin’ Snackin’,” “Woofy Breakfast,” “More Hearty Sides,” “Come-and-Get-It Entrees,” “More Bear Meat,” and “Way Beyond the Honey Pot.” The book offers practical tips about food preparation, cooking and storage, how to cook a holiday turkey, how to work with sugar, syrup, and honey, and refrigerator care and maintenance. More Bear Cookin’ also pays loving tribute to the magical powers of peanut butter, eggs, potatoes, cheese, mayonnaise, meat broth, and chocolate, dishes on “Diner Talk” (waiter/waitress lingo), and “Leftover Life” (general rules for food safety), and gives up “The Skinny on Fat” (cooking with fats and oils).

    More Bear Cookin’: Bigger and Better includes such rich, satisfying recipes as:

    • Bachelor Bear Toast
    • White Trash Stash
    • Deep-Fried Twinkies
    • Stay For Breakfast
    • Chocolate Gravy, Baby
    • I-95 Waffles
    • Spam®-it, Damn-it
    • Triple Cheese Mac Attack
    • Tailgater Soup
    • Potato Salad from Hell
    • French Fry Pizza Fry
    • Boo Boo’s Biscuit Cake
    • (I’m) Nuts Over Chicken and Biscuits
    • Big Fat Greek Spinach Pie
    • Honey, Lick My Chops
    • Flamin Jiffy Steak
    • Classic 7-UP® Cake
    More Bear Cookin’: Bigger and Better is a worthy successor to Bear Cookin’: The Original Guide to Bear Comfort Foods, adding more recipes, more helpful hints, and more special features to your kitchen.

    • Foreword (Les Wright)
    • Preface
    • Acknowledgments
    • Section I: LIP SMACKIN’ SNACKIN’
    • Hot Creamy Bean Dip
    • No-Bake Brandy Balls
    • Sante Fe Roll-Ups
    • Barbeque Biscuit Cups
    • Cheesy Sausage Balls
    • Mashed Potato Dip
    • A Tribute—Peanut Butter
    • Homemade Candy Bars
    • Butter Nut Chews
    • Cheese Crud
    • PC Pickle Wraps
    • Confetti Dip
    • Sweet Cubby Balls
    • Mini Hot Browns
    • Ultimate Chocolate Fudge Muffins
    • Love My Salsa
    • New Classic Sangria
    • La-Dee-Da Appetizers
    • Mini Muffulettas
    • Bachelor Bear Toast
    • Candy Bar Smoothie
    • Buffalo Rolls
    • Tuxedo Bread
    • Carly’s Clam Pie
    • Zucchini Bread
    • Glazed Nuts and Berries
    • Potato Chip Cookies
    • Deep-Fried Twinkies
    • White Trash Stash
    • Jerky Appetizer Pie
    • Double Cheese Fondue
    • Beefy Broiler Snacks
    • Italian Pita Crispies
    • Section II: WOOFY BREAKFAST
    • Corn and Bacon Muffins
    • Banana Jam
    • Fall Harvest Scones
    • Stay for Breakfast
    • Easy Breakfast Tortilla Bake
    • Sausage Potato Pancakes
    • Classic Blueberry Muffins
    • Bacon Hash Browns
    • A Tribute—The Egg
    • Chocolate Chip Waffles
    • Baked Banana French Toast
    • Sweet Potato Pancakes
    • Cocoa Crepes
    • Fruit Cocktail Bread
    • Chocolate Gravy, Baby
    • Ham and Cheese Muffins
    • Bakin’ and Eggs
    • Kitchen Tips—The Refrigerator
    • I-95 Waffles
    • Oatmeal Surprise
    • Apple Cherry Pandowdy
    • Caramel Apple Pancakes
    • Old-Fashioned Soup Can Bread
    • Spam It, Damn-It!
    • Breakfast on the Run
    • Section III: MORE HEARTY SIDES
    • Bacon & Buttermilk Mashed Potatoes
    • Tuna Lemon Pasta
    • Triple Cheese Mac Attack
    • Tijuana Beans and Rice
    • Fiesta Soup
    • Sweet Iced Tea
    • Chicken and Corn Chowder
    • Yam-pple Casserole
    • Daddy’s Waldorf Ring
    • Corn & Tomato Casserole
    • Kitchen Tips—Cooking and Storing
    • Southern-Baked Corn
    • Hot Grilled Stuffed Potatoes
    • Did Ya Know?—Diner Talk
    • Hush Puppies
    • Nuts About Veggies
    • Shocking Pink Cranberry Relish
    • Barbequed Onion Bowls
    • Sage Dressing
    • Potato Vegetable Scallop
    • A Tribute—The Potato
    • Tailgater Soup
    • Cheesy Cheddar Biscuits
    • Pumpkin Cheese Bake
    • Summertime Carrot Salad
    • Easy Southern-Style Greens
    • Your Own Barbeque Sauce
    • Porky’s Corn Bread
    • My Favorite Deviled Eggs
    • Tangy Coleslaw
    • Anything Goes Pasta Bake
    • Quick Mushroom Risotto
    • Potato Salad from Hell
    • Section IV: COME-AND-GET-IT ENTRÉES
    • Citrus Ham Casserole
    • Taco Chicken Casserole
    • Super Bowl Steak and Beans
    • Holiday Hangover Tetrazzini
    • Winter Soup
    • Tarzan Skillet
    • 20-Minute Shepherd’s Pie
    • Chili Dog Casserole
    • A Tribute—Say Cheese
    • Lemon Shrimp with Pasta
    • Tater Tot Casserole
    • My Succotash Wish
    • Oven Stew
    • Vineyard Pasta
    • Weekday Stir-Fry
    • Turkey Salad Deluxe
    • French Fry Pizza Pie
    • Chicken Sausage Supper
    • Sloppy Joe Casserole
    • Boo Boo’s Biscuit Bake
    • Did Ya Know?—Leftover Life
    • Chicken Divine
    • Pepperoni Pie
    • Bear Chops & Beans
    • Italian Sausage Casserole
    • San Fran Chicken Casserole
    • Cheater’s Chicken Pot Pie
    • A Tribute—Mayonnaise
    • Potato Sausage Summer Salad
    • Orange Chicken Salad
    • (I’m) Nuts Over Chicken and Biscuits
    • Bear Pig Stuffed Potatoes
    • Chinese Pork and Vegetables
    • Sweet Potato Turkey Pie
    • Big Fat Greek Spinach Pie
    • Super Deluxe Chili Mac
    • Section V: MORE BEAR MEAT
    • Barbeque Meat Loaf
    • Maple-Glazed Ham
    • Easy-Bake Swiss Steak
    • Even I Can Fry Fish
    • Fried Turkey
    • Slow-Cooked Beef & Sausage Loaf
    • Easiest Chicken Bake
    • Honey, Lick My Chops
    • Peanut Butter Beef
    • Deep-Fried Chicken Crunch
    • Caribbean Pork
    • Did Ya Know?—The Skinny on Fat
    • Sour Cream and Onion Burgers
    • Bacon Double Cheeseburger Loaf
    • Marinated Flank Steak
    • Deviled Chicken Livers
    • Meat and Potatoes Loaf
    • Blitzed Beef
    • Chicken Guieseppi
    • Oven-Baked Pork Chops
    • Golden Fish Sticks
    • Flamin’ Jiffy Steak
    • Coconut Chicken
    • Texas Barbeque Shrimp Kabobs
    • BBQ Hashburgers
    • Beef Goulash
    • A Tribute—Meat Broth
    • Salmon Cracker Cakes
    • Pot Roast, My Sweet
    • Pork Chops in Orange-Tomato Sauce
    • Southwest Grilled Chicken
    • Boardwalk Dogs
    • Easy Napa Brisket
    • Kitchen Tips—The Bird, the Whole Bird, and Nothing but the Bird
    • Simple Asian Steak
    • Sweet and Sour Pork Spareribs
    • Ultimate Bear Meat
    • Bourbon Beef Tenderloin
    • Chicken Breasts with Yogurt and Lime
    • Liver and Onions Dijon
    • Lemon Dill Fish Steaks
    • Section VI: WAY BEYOND THE HONEYPOT
    • Packing the Fudge
    • Orange Nut Cookies
    • Bali Hai Pie
    • Damn Good Whiskey Cake
    • Easy Crock-Pot Bread Pudding
    • Simple Apple Crisp
    • Nutter Squares
    • Easy Apple Nut Pudding
    • Ultimate Snicker Cookies
    • Classic No-Fuss Chocolate Cake
    • A Tribute—Choco-Logic
    • Peanut Butter Banana Crunch
    • Grandma’s Pumpkin Pie
    • Anytime Tiramisu
    • Intense Brownies
    • Butter-Rum Sundae
    • Lemon Snowflakes
    • Cashew Pudding
    • Classic 7-Up Cake
    • Mandarin Orange Pie
    • Best Homemade Chocolate Sauce
    • Kitchen Tips—A Little Lowdown on the Sweet Stuff
    • Rocky Road Squares
    • Noodle Pudding
    • All-American Chocolate Chip Cookies
    • Carrot Cake
    • Kentucky Pie
    • Rum Raisin Dessert
    • Easy Chocolate Chip Blondies
    • Apple Cheddar Cookies
    • Milk Chocolate Ice Cream
    • Glazed Apple Cake
    • Summer Fruit Pizza
    • Butterscotch Nut Bars
    • Almond-Oatmeal Cookies
    • Frosted Cola Cake
    • German Chocolate Chews
    • Lime Gelatin Mold
    • Bee-Elza-Butter Cookies
    • Peanut Butter Pound Cakes
    • Chameleon Cake
    • Peanut Butter Cup Brownies
    • Pineapple Surprise
    • Recipe Terminology
    • Recipe Equivalencies
    • Emergency Substitutions
    • Recipe Index
    • Subject Index

    Biography

    PJ Gray