Surreal Gourmet Bites: Showstoppers and Conversation Starters

by Bob Blumer

Book Overview

Bob Blumer (a.k.a. The Surreal Gourmet) has assembled a collection of bursting-with-flavor appetizer recipes that will dazzle your senses. With foods that suit anyone's culinary comfort level, this colorful volume contains recipes for fish, meat, fowl, veggies, and sweets -- from Byzantine Bruschetta to Samurai Scallops. Bob also provides "liquid assets," drinks that enhance the flavor of each bite. In addition to the easy-to-follow instructions,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552855872
• ISBN13: 9781552855874
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Whitecap Books
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

So Inventive!

This is a fun book to have in your collection. There are so many unique ideas with full color photos for each. If you are looking for something really unique and fun to serve at your next party this book is exactly what you need!

Fun with food

Through my job in the kitchen appliance industry, I was lucky enough to see Bob Blumer do his thing in a very intimate (about 10 people) setting. From the moment he showed up wearing an AC/DC t-shirt and a pair of outrageous chef's pants, I knew this was going to be a lot more fun than the typical Food Network cooking shows(except maybe maybe Giada's Everyday Italian...but that's for different reasons). Besides tasting great, the foods he prepared were just downright funny! He was very personable and had a great sense of humor which is reflected throughout this entire book. I wasn't going to give this book 5 stars simply because these are just not foods you can prepare on any sort of a regular basis. They are mostly meant to be...for lack of a beeter way to describe it....different. But I reconsidered and gave it 5 stars anyway because it's just so damn funny and so damn original! If you are going to a party, get-together or anytype of social event where food will be served, and you want your offering to be the talk of the moment...this is the book for you. Even if you're not a great cook or don't do such a hot job preparing these bites, the presentation alone will make you the hit! Check it out!

GREAT NEW FOODS!

I tried the smores shooters, and coconut shrimp popsicles, the sauce on the shrimp popsicles tasted great like something you would get in a resteraunt.I also tried the bang bang drummettes, and the inside out BLTs which tasted great. Living in Colorado I enjoyed the smores shooters as they are a great treat to have before you go snowboarding!

Artist Still Playing With His Food with Amuse-Bouche!

Teasers as warmup course, or appetizer feast, here is consummate surreal gourmet providing the inspiration with about fifty recipes composing sections on: fish, meat, fowl, veggies, sweets. This continues his strong past of imaginative food with stylish twists of humor and fun with food. Try the likes of: Fish Cakes (salmon cupcakes with dill mashed potato icing); Cocktail Dates (bacon-wrapped parmesan-stuffed dates); Cowboy Cookies (chile-crusted tenderloin between carmelized yam slices); Inside Out BL's (bacon, arugula, and goat cheese sandwiched between fried tomato slices);Knuckle Sandwich (nutella, hazelnuts and sauteed pears on toasted pound cake). Add to all this suggested menus, brief primer and notes oon frying and advance-prep ingredient handling, and suggested menus. This is fun food, more lighthearted but serious food as well along the lines of Gale Gand's "Just A Bite" or her partner's Rick Tramonto's "Amuse Bouche."