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Take a Bite. A Big, Big Bite.
Date: Jun. 15th 2010
Category: Cookbooks, Gnocchi, Pasta, Pizza and Rice, Cakes, Cheesecakes, Cupcakes and Muffins
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I love cheeky cookbooks.
This is probably what first attracted me to the charming, shameless and utterly delicious cookbook Bite Me: A Stomach-Satisfying, Visually Gratifying, Fresh-Mounthed Cookbook
I remember it well. It was a Friday night, after work. I had taken my weekly trip to the local bookstore and was cruising the cookbook section for my latest conquest, er, I mean cookbook.
My eyes were immediately attracted to Bite Me after seeing it piled high on a display table. I flipped through it, fell in immediate love with the humour and funny recipe titles and purchased it right then and there.
Not too long after, I was looking for some information about the authors, Julie Albert and Lisa Gnat, when I came across their site for the book. Pure delectable fun. I’ve rarely seen cookbook authors that approach the sale of their cookbook with the humour and gusto that these authors do.
And they’re pretty sweet too since, after I contacted them, they kindly arranged for a copy of their book to be sent along for review at The Daring Kitchen (you can read the review here).
After spending months perusing the book, it was high time to try a few recipes and my goodness were they good!
I tried the recipe for Mona Lisa’s Fontina and Arugula Pizza (except I used Asiago instead of Fontina) and loved it. Lightly dressed arugula on a hot, cheesy pizza is hard to resist.
But the recipe I really and truly loved was the Chocolate-Crusted Creamy Caramel Cheesecake. Apparently if you drench unbaked cheesecake with caramel sauce it bakes up all sugary and golden and delicious and crunchy and I should probably just come clean and tell you that I ate the entire cheese cake myself.
Don’t judge me.
Ciao!
You can check out some of the great recipes from Bite Me here.
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06/15/10 at 8:07 pm
That pizza and cheesecake look to-die-for. Baking the cheesecake with the caramel already on it sounds like such a good idea and I can’t wait to try it out!
06/15/10 at 8:44 pm
WOW it looks all so good!! I’m not even a cheesecake fan but I would love to try a piece of the one above.
06/15/10 at 11:27 pm
you are a tease!! i too am loving that cheesecake!
06/16/10 at 12:42 am
That pizza looks so beautiful and looks extremely scrumptious! The cheesecake is perfect to end that meal.
Cheers,
Rosa
06/16/10 at 7:19 am
Thanks for the cookbook tip! I’m a junkie for cookbooks too!
06/16/10 at 7:42 am
You didn’t. Eat. The. Whole. Cheesecake. Yourself.
Well I’m not judging. It does look delicious. Thanks for the review of that cookbook.
06/16/10 at 7:53 am
Wow! Fabulous! I am checking this book out!
06/16/10 at 12:08 pm
Interesting. Where ever did you find a bookstore with a stack of copies of a book that isn’t going to be released until Dec 2010?
06/16/10 at 4:20 pm
Salad leaves on pizza. Anyone know a good divorce lawyer?!
The cheesecake will make up for that slight aberration I’m sure 
06/16/10 at 5:30 pm
Pizza entices and beckons.Cheesecake is screaing for me. (Can you tell I am a huge cheesecake fan). I love the title of the book - the humor shines!
06/16/10 at 9:39 pm
Chapter’s right? This is one of ‘heather’s picks’, lol. I saw tre display and have the book too.
I was actually going to make the cheesecake this weekend! great minds.
I looked for it on AMAZON to review it but coulen’t find it. Thought maybe it’s in Canada only?
06/17/10 at 3:30 am
Ciaooooooooooo Yvonne!! How are you doing?
Gosh it has been a while since I stopped by and actual left a comment for you *sigh* Busy school times I’m afraid!
I kept a close eye on your blog tho! Your blog always make me happy and I sooo need a copy of that book
Take care!
TJ
06/17/10 at 5:37 pm
So funny you were honest. Thank GOD I am not the only one who goes ape wild on things. And really how can you resist a treasure of a cheesecake like that one.
06/17/10 at 6:53 pm
From the looks of that cake, I would have eaten the whole thing too!
06/17/10 at 7:24 pm
Holy Cow! As soon as I saw that first bite-worthy photo, I was all set to drop what I was doing to make that pizza immediately if not sooner…but I exerted some self control and kept reading…and now the cheese cake is number one on my list and the pizza is number two! Yum, yum, yum!
06/17/10 at 8:46 pm
Wow. That cheesecake loos divine. The pizza looks great too, but the cheesecake is amazing.
07/5/10 at 7:00 pm
Oh, my, I think I’ve gained five pounds just sitting here reading your blog. I can’t stop drooling here at my desk!
Your photos are absolutely heavenly–makes me want to get in the kitchen and start cooking….
07/21/10 at 4:57 am
Wow, these look amazing. I must ask you this question, every time I see one of your beautiful cakes, I am green with envy, they always look so beautiful, how do you cut that perfect piece of cake, especially cheesecake? Whenever I cut a piece, even with heating the knife, wiping in between cuts, I can never, I mean never cut a perfect piece like you. What is your trick? Btw, this cookbook is going on my wishlist.