Seriously From Scratch: How to Cook the Most Delicious Food Ever By Making Every Single Component Yourself

by Joe Gatto

Make the Best Dishes of Your Life by Crafting Every Single Element by Hand

Seriously From Scratch takes food lovers on a wild journey behind the scenes of America’s favorite dishes. Chef Joe Gatto proves that these dishes taste the best when you craft every single component yourself. So, if you want to eat the best freaking burger of your life, you’ve got to make the buns from scratch, along with the ketchup, mustard, mayo and Parmesan herb fries on the side. But that’s not all—make it truly epic by smoking your own bacon and grinding it together with fresh beef for your burger patties and even making your own lump charcoal to cook it. Crazy? Yeah. Worth it? HELL YEAH!

Chef Joe went back to the building blocks of food to find the absolute best way to make the perfect pastrami sandwich, the ultimate pizza, pasta like you’ve never tasted it before, hog-wild barbecue and a not-your-average clambake. You don’t have to be trained in culinary? arts or have a kitchen full of fancy equipment to make rock star food. With Chef Joe’s standout recipes and step-by-step tutorials, you’ll serve your family and friends a meal so delicious it will knock them over. Plus, you get to brag about your adventures in the kitchen making literally every single thing from scratch! With this quirky cookbook, you’ll have? a blast, learn new tips and tricks and get a new, inspired appreciation for dishes that truly are better made from scratch.

Genres: Cookbooks

210 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 6, 2016

Reviews

[Prima Seadiva · Rating 2 out of 5]

Library book. It was an okay read. More like 2.5 stars. Not a book I would buy.
Though I do a lot of my own cooking from scratch, neither my budget nor lifestyle includes using recipes that call for respectively, 5 pounds of pork belly, 8 pounds of brisket or a 50 pound pig.
The side recipes were more interesting and more in line with everyday living. Since I'm not a beer drinker I'd probably adapt the beer pizza dough and use fizzy water. I already have dill pickle, sauerkraut, watermelon rind pickle, pasta and pesto recipes I like but these looked okay. I might try the rye bread-that was really what made me check out the book. If I do, I'll add my results.

So, if gonzo chef is your style and money is no object, you might get more out of this book than I did.

[Kathleen · Rating 3 out of 5]

With this book of recipes, you are doing everything but slaughtering animals and grinding wheat. It's a fun read, but I wasn't all that inspired to make any of the recipes, and I'm someone who does a fair amount of from-scratch cooking.

[Deb · Rating 1 out of 5]

I picked this one up at the library and leaved through it. Found the author to be full of himself. Sisn't think much of the recipes. I thought it was going to have recipes for more common, everyday items.

[Trish · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of yummy recipes. He includes lots of pictures!!!