The Awesome BBQ Book for Feasting with Friends and Family

Fire Feasts

DJ BBQ is BACK! This time with a feast of dishes for outdoor occasions &ndash; he wants YOU to get grilling for friends and family with a medley of new dishes that are perfect for sharing.Whether it&rsquo;s a "Breakfast of Legends", finger food that everyone can tuck into, like a Triple Wing Whammy, Sticky Baby Back Ribs or Deep Fried Tomato Pie Balls, or the ultimate DJBBQ Mixed Grill or Surf and Turf spread to feed a hungry crew &ndash; or special party pieces like a Whole Spit-Roasted Cow Leg or Hung Guard Pork of Honour &ndash; every occasion can centre around the barbecue! There are even sides, live fire cocktails and &ldquo;So Sweet My Teeth Hurt&rdquo; desserts, all made over fire.Christian provides a detailed introduction explaining the basics of setting up your grill, what fuel to use, and how to get the best from your cooking with hacks and tips for making the best fires, including &ldquo;crazy mega awesome fires&rdquo;. You&#39;ll be &ldquo;Grilling in the Name Of&rdquo; in no time!

DJ BBQ (aka Christian Stevenson) is a live fire chef and a leading name in the world of BBQ. After a successful broadcasting career fronting shows for MTV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 (including award-winning Rad), he harnessed his passion for cooking over fire and now has his own YouTube channel with more than 175K subscribers (he&rsquo;s also a regular big-hitter on Jamie Oliver&rsquo;s FoodTube). DJ BBQ stars in and hosts festivals including Meatopia, The Big Feastival, Camp Bestival, Grilltopia and The Big Grill. He is a chef on Food.com, and has contributed to This Morning, FHM, Independent, Daily Mail and the Chris Evans Breakfast Show among many others. He has a BBQ spice rub range with US brand Spiceology, and his brand affiliations include Hellmann&rsquo;s, Renault, B&amp;Q and Kid Rock&rsquo;s American Bad Ass Grill. He is the author of Fire Food (2018) and The Burger Book (2019).

Banging Burgers, Sides and Sauces to Cook Indoors and Out

The Burger Book

From the no 1 bestselling author DJ BBQ comes the definitive burger book.This is the only burger book you&#39;ll ever need &ndash; the only burger book you&#39;ll ever want! And it&#39;s not just beef burgers &ndash; The Burger Book is packed with burger recipes covering options for fish, chicken, veggie, vegan, pork and lamb. It has buns. It has sauces. It has sides.It has all the delicious flavours and madcap shenanigans that you&#39;ve come to expect from DJ BBQ and his crew. So whether you want a classic, 10inch, lockjaw beef burger, or fancy trying a smoked haddock burger, beetroot burger or gravy burger (yes, the burgers are soaked in gravy!), this is the book for you.Learn to cook these burgers like a pro, whether on the grill or back indoors, and understand the art of assembling the ultimate bun-wrapped feast.

DJ BBQ (aka Christian Stevenson) is a live fire chef and a leading name in the world of BBQ. After a successful broadcasting career fronting shows for MTV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 (including award-winning Rad), he harnessed his passion for cooking over fire and now has his own YouTube channel with more than 175K subscribers (he&rsquo;s also a regular big-hitter on Jamie Oliver&rsquo;s FoodTube). DJ BBQ stars in and hosts festivals including Meatopia, The Big Feastival, Camp Bestival, Grilltopia and The Big Grill. He is a chef on Food.com, and has contributed to This Morning, FHM, Independent, Daily Mail and the Chris Evans Breakfast Show among many others. He has a BBQ spice rub range with US brand Spiceology, and his brand affiliations include Hellmann&rsquo;s, Renault, B&amp;Q and Kid Rock&rsquo;s American Bad Ass Grill.

The Ultimate BBQ Cookbook

Fire Food

From the world-renowned DJ BBQ comes Fire Food &ndash; a book that shows you how to ace the art of handling live fire so that you can grill, smoke and slow-roast meat, fish and veg that&rsquo;s out of this world.Pitmaster DJ BBQ covers all the basics of cooking over charcoal and shows you how to perfect classic recipes such as grilled chicken with Alabama white sauce or a succulent rib-eye steak, and delves into more inventive cookout delights including a BBQ spaghetti Bolognese, and poutine with bourbon- and maple syrup-spiked gravy.There are fish dishes (crab cakes, prawn tacos), veggie grills (mac &amp; cheese pancakes, smoked potato salad), and enough madcap BBQ invention to see you through summer and well into winter. In fact, DJ BBQ takes inspiration from around the world (from Central America, via the Baltics, to North Africa), as well as the many BBQ chefs, gauchos, artisans and pitmasters he&rsquo;s met along the way.Your cookouts will never be the same again!

&ldquo;After a life lived in the world&rsquo;s snootiest restaurants, this book just slapped me in the face with the realisation that food is supposed to be fun! Everything I love about DJ BBQ &ndash; the smoke, the meat, the beer, the air guitar, the energy, the teenager&rsquo;s sense of humour &ndash; is here in this book in glorious technicolour&rdquo;

&ldquo;Cooking with fire is an ancient tradition and while seemingly straight-forward, there is a real art to understanding fire and how it affects different foods. DJ BBQ is a master of the fire pit and a natural born griller. In Fire Food his expertise and experience have been combined to bring inspiring and delicious, fool-proof recipes, no matter the level of your skill&rdquo;

&ldquo;DJ BBQ was born to do this &ndash; he lives and breathes the grill and this book has all the tips, tricks and advice you need to own your BBQ, with exciting recipes to get you grilling all year round&rdquo;

&ldquo;No one brings the spirit of rock &lsquo;n&rsquo; roll to live fire cooking more viscerally than DJ BBQ&rdquo;

Get this book and your whole BBQ cooking game will reach Jedi level. May the fire be with you!

Few souls on this earth possess the knowledge and skill to pull off writing a book like this. Years of live fire knowledge absolutely packed into one place. This book is very easy to read and relatable to everyone from the weekend griller with a Weber, to seasoned pitmasters looking for new ideas. DJ BBQ takes what he&rsquo;s learned traveling the world and applies techniques and unique ingredients to come up with what I believe to be the definitive live fire cooking guide on the market. This book is filled with explanations of live fire dos and don&rsquo;ts, not just recipes. With this book in hand, you should have no problem blowing your guests&rsquo; minds at your next backyard BBQ!

I can tell you Christian is one a prime authority on food and fire. His enthusiasm for, and dedication and knowledge of fire is only matched by Lucifer himself &ndash; only difference is that Christian will bring about world peace.

BBQ in the UK is developing and growing at a furious pace, and DJ BBQ is at the forefront of all things cooked over fire here. It&rsquo;s a delight to see that his new book inspires and educates with recipes from his travels, taking flavours and ingredients from around the globe and using them with innovation and flare to come up with stunning fire-cooked food. This is undoubtedly the way forward for outdoor cooking in the UK

DJ BBQ (aka Christian Stevenson) is a live fire chef and a leading name in the world of BBQ. After a successful broadcasting career fronting shows for MTV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 (including award-winning Rad), he harnessed his passion for cooking over fire and now has his own YouTube channel with more than 175K subscribers (he&rsquo;s also a regular big-hitter on Jamie Oliver&rsquo;s FoodTube). DJ BBQ stars in and hosts festivals including Meatopia, The Big Feastival, Camp Bestival, Grilltopia and The Big Grill. He is a chef on Food.com, and has contributed to This Morning, FHM, Independent, Daily Mail and the Chris Evans Breakfast Show among many others. His brand affiliations include Hellmann&rsquo;s, Renault, B&amp;Q and Kid Rock&rsquo;s American Bad Ass Grill.

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50 Awesome Recipes for Baking Over Live Fire

60 awesome recipes for baking over live fire from the legendary DJ BBQ team. DJ BBQ's Backyard Baking will take your live fire skills and backyard set-up to the next level, covering everything you ever wanted to know about baking on your BBQ. The standard kettle BBQ is essentially an oven, so why not use it to its potential and get baking? Bake the best ever brioche buns so you can make the ultimate cheeseburger; whip up some rye crumpets to go alongside some amazing pastrami; enjoy a god-tier bacon sandwich using your very own live fire sourdough loaf; throw an epic pizza party for all your friends; and finish off with some sweet treats like smoky chocolate brownies. When it comes to backyard baking the possibilities are endless &ndash; put your skills to the test with next instalment from the DJ BBQ team. It&#39;s DJ BBQ's Backyard Baking, and it&#39;s AWESOME.

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