Joey Green's Mealtime Magic: More Than 250 Offbeat Recipes Using Beloved Brand-Name Products - Hardcover

Green, Joey; A

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594865817 ISBN 13: 9781594865817

Publisher: Rodale Books, 2007

Synopsis

America's brand-name wizard is at it again, this time creating culinary magic in a cookbook packed with fun, fast, unexpectedly delicious recipes and little-known facts all revolving around brand-name pantry favorites

As a magician of brand-name miscellany, Joey Green got Jay Leno to shave with Jif peanut butter on The Tonight Show and gave Meredith Vieira a facial with Elmer's Glue-All on The View. He has been seen polishing furniture with Spam on NBC Dateline and teaching Diane Sawyer how to style her hair with Jell-O. The New York Daily News calls him "a hyperactive, testosterone-charged version of Heloise." People names him the "Pantry Professor."

Now America's favorite creator of wacky uses for brand-name products comes up with his most inspired treat yet: Joey Green's Mealtime Magic, filled with more than 250 clever and delicious dishes made half from scratch using beloved brand-name foods, such as Crunchy Chicken Nuggets (made with Cheerios), Coca-Cola Brisket, and Spice Cake (with Campbell's Tomato Soup). Joey also serves up creative side dishes, including fun facts about America's favorite brand-name foods, and kooky alternative uses for kitchen appliances. Now you, too, can cook dinner in the dishwasher! Joey Green's Mealtime Magic is a fun way to liven up time in the kitchen and surprise friends and family at the table.

About this title

About the Author

JOEY GREEN, a former contributing editor to National Lampoon and a former advertising copywriter at J. Walter Thompson, is the author of more than 30 books that have sold hundreds of thousands of copies combined. His hilarious and ingenious ideas open people's eyes to the potential hiding in every product, providing laughter and learning, and making him a popular guest on such shows as Today, The Tonight Show, and Good Morning America. He lives in Los Angeles.

From Publishers Weekly

The dinner table serves as the latest front in Green's seemingly inexhaustible mission to repurpose common household products (Joey Green's Rainy Day Magic, Incredible Country Store, Gardening Magic, etc.) in this hefty collection of uses for American cupboard staples like Tabasco sauce, 7UP, Cheez Whiz and Cheerios; the results alternate between ingenious and ghastly. Some recipes, such as Pineapple Glazed Pork Chops, which uses a glaze made from Dole crushed pineapple, ginger, cinnamon and apple jelly, are innovative and tasty. Other dishes aren't fit for prisoners: Heinz Ketchup's Love Apple Pie is a stomach-churning mélange of granny smith apples, lemon juice, spices and, yes, a third cup of ketchup; cloying Orangey Rice is flavored with a packet of Tang breakfast drink. Peppered with product trivia, readers will be happy to learn they can use vinegar to clean tarnished pans, but perhaps less thrilled to learn how they can cook shrimp in the dryer. Novelty aside, those looking for reliable ways to use their brand-name products would be better served by traditional recipes.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1594865817
• ISBN 13: 9781594865817
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 304