Bobby at Home: Fearless Flavors from My Kitchen: A Cookbook

by Bobby Flay, Stephanie Banyas, Sally Jackson

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - With 165+ recipes, Bobby Flay opens up his home and shares his bold, approachable style of cooking for family and friends, along with his no-nonsense, essential advice for home cooks.

Welcome to Bobby's, where powerhouse flavors rule the day. In his most personal cookbook yet, Bobby shares over 165 bold, approachable recipes he cooks at home for family and friends, along with his well-earned secrets for executing them perfectly. Everyday favorites--from pan-seared meats and hearty pastas to shareable platters of roasted vegetables, bountiful salads, and casual, homey desserts--go bigger and bolder with Bobby's signature pull-no-punches cooking style. Expect crowd-pleasing classics taken to the next level with exciting flavors, such as Spanish-style shrimp and grits, pumpkin pancakes with apple cider syrup, and sticky-savory-sweet Korean BBQ chicken. Riff on go-to dishes just as Bobby does with his master recipes for essentials, along with creative variations that take the base recipe in a range of directions to suit your mood, such as crispy bacon glazed with pomegranate molasses, deviled eggs topped with fried oysters, and mussels steamed in a heady green curry broth. With Bobby by your side, cooking at home just got a lot more exciting.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Food

256 pages, Hardcover

First published September 24, 2019

About the author

Robert William Flay is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, and television personality. He is the owner and executive chef of five restaurants: Mesa Grill and Bar Americain in New York City; Mesa Grill in Las Vegas; Mesa Grill in Bahamas (Atlantis Paradise Island, Nassau); and Bobby Flay Steak in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Flay has hosted seven Food Network television programs and appeared regularly on an eighth. He has also appeared as a guest on other Food Network shows and hosted a number of specials on the network.

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 1 out of 5]

Bobby isn’t my usual cooking jam, but I’m a sucker for new cookbooks on the library shelf. It’s fine. He’s making fresh pasta and eschewing yellow cake in favor of cornmeal in pineapple upside cake (wtf Bobby?) and flippantly instructs the reader to glaze bacon with pomegranate molasses as though we all have access to that at Aldi. He is ruining pizza with mint pesto. He puts Brussels sprouts on his cheesy nachos like a monster. His favorite compound butters that he whips up at home contain harissa and mint or anchovies. Bobby makes prickly pear cactus syrup for his waffles and thinks we should too. But then he also has a recipe for, no joke, scrambled eggs. And a whiskey sour. And a basic, run-of-the-mill vinaigrette. I don’t think Bobby or his editors could figure out what this cookbook should even be and it is straight up bizarre.

[Spine & Leaf Books · Rating 4 out of 5]

Every cooking fan knows who Bobby Flay is. He hosts TV shows, competes in cooking competitions, writes cookbooks, and runs restaurants. He’s also a really nice guy.

I’m an average home cook and baker who’s open to learning new kitchen skills. I thought Bobby’s 2019 cookbook featuring “Fearless Flavors from My Kitchen” could be my next cooking adventure. Stephanie Banyas and Sally Jackson co-wrote this book with Flay, adding their own family recipes to the mix.

Flay dedicated this book to his mother, Dorothy Flay. This goes to show that this really is a family-style, home cooking, collection of recipes.

There’s no way around it, a cookbook must have pictures to reel me in and Bobby at Home features some incredible photographs. The only downside here is that I want a full-page shot of every single recipe, but unfortunately that would probably make this tome exceed 500 pages. So Flay and his team keep it to about half that length and do a good job featuring enough recipes in photo format that I am satisfied.

Find out how the recipes turned out here: https://spineandleafbooks.com/2021/11...

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've been reading a lot of cookbooks during Covid and discovered some wonderful ones (Curtis Stone and Trisha Yearwood for example.) Hubby has frequently watched Bobby Flay on TV and suggested I check out one of his cookbooks, so I chose this one to read. This particular collection of recipes didn't speak to me at all, which is really unusual. Normally I find several tempting recipes, but nothing stood out to me. (I find it's always a good idea to check out cookbooks from my library to decide if they're a book I want to purchase.)

[Gina Zappa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I feel you can never go wrong with a Bobby Flay cookbook. The recipes always look (and taste) delicious and bonus points to him for being a cutie! Curious to see if I can easily keto-fy those Black Pepper Biscuits that look so darn yummy, and don't even get me started on that Baked Manchego With Yellow Pepper Romesco! How good does that look?! I mean, hot cheese, am I right?! I am adding this cookbook to my Christmas list, so friends take note, Imma need this!

[Andrew Keen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bobby at Home gives the home cook many new ideas for recipes to make for yourself and others, as well as to expand your culinary practice. Since I've read it, I've tried the dessert recipes, practiced agrodolce, and started making marinara and pizza crust from scratch. Some recipes call for ingredients that are expensive or hard to find, but the cookbook is worth it for what you will learn and incorporate into your own culinary practice.

[Abbigail · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book might have been 3 stars, just for me personally, until the desserts section which truly looked so delicious. This cookbook had an entire chapter devoted to cocktails, which isn't really my jam, and the vegetables section had a chef-y vibe to me while the rest of the book just looked like manageable delicious food you could in theory make at home. Excited to try a couple of recipes from this one.

[Stella · Rating 4 out of 5]

This collection of 'Bobby at Home' recipes is full of next level at home cooking. Black Pepper Biscuits, Korean BBQ Chicken and Baked Manchego.....come on. The recipes are easy to follow and the photos are beautiful and make every item look mouth-wateringly delicious.

Viva la Bobby!

[Megan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the kind of cookbook I want to read. The recipes are more elevated, but easy to create. His recipes for more of the sauces, dips, and just condiments are incredibly helpful as we move to having more fresh food in our home. I highly recommend this book!

[Kate · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's alright.

[Debbie Tollefson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Recipes are a little too "adventurous" for our table, but I did select three to try........maybe

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

So much good stuff I want to try it all. The breakfast one s still my favorite, but this one is almost as good. Great pictures, a good set up, I would totally buy this.

[Beka · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of yummy, flavorful looking dishes, and it definitely seemed more at home than a lot of chef cookbooks.

[Debbie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bobby Flay’s cookbooks are favorites, but this one is the most approachable of them all. I can’t wait to try almost every recipe in this book. Just my kind of food!

[John Sweeney · Rating 5 out of 5]

Let's face it, there's nobody better.

[Ted Hekman · Rating 5 out of 5]

A nice collection of easy recipes. I've cooked about 10 in the last 6 months, and I'd make any of them again (and sometimes have)

[Lucy Leigh J · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hardback:

[Carole A Sorrenti · Rating 5 out of 5]

Classic Bobby

I watch Bobby religiously on television. his cooking style is comfortable. He is a messy cook, as am I. this book is one I will refer to often.

[Kelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love the stories! Great photographs accompanying the recipes. I cannot wait to try the crispy coconut scallion rice.

[Caitlyn Hess · Rating 5 out of 5]

Delish as always!

[Kristen Barenthaler · Rating 4 out of 5]

Did I enjoy the recipes and pictures? Yes.
Will I actually take the time to make any of them? Probably not.

[A. · Rating 1 out of 5]

1 recipe I liked

[Valerie Reid · Rating 5 out of 5]

A sneak peek at what Bobby Flay cooks at home. He often mentions dishes that are on the menus at his restaurants and re-makes the recipes to make at home. Everything is very approachable for the home cook. Lots of mouth-watering photos of the food.

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