http://www.notquitenigella.com/2010/12/02/trailer-park-shepherds-pie-win-1-of-5-copies-of-mosh-potatoes-the-heavy-metal-cookbook-rated-a-o/#more-366101/5 “Mosh Potatoes" cookbooksI received a cookbook to review in the mail. They turn up like Santa’s presents around this time of the year and I have a large stack to go through. As soon as I opened the box I laughed. “Mosh Potatoes: recipes, anecdotes and mayhem from the heavyweights of Heavy Metal”. Well blow me over with a feather. This would have to be one of the most fun cookbooks I’ve received all year. Such was my eagerness to read it that I stowed it in my bag and read it in the taxi on the way to the facial and tweeted about it as soon as I could.
The front quote reads “Every recipe in this book is pure evil. And I mean that in the most delicious way”. Looking and weighing like a large paperback, author Steve “Buckshot” Seabury himself from a band called Motheater, curated these recipes from members of Ozzy Osbourne, Pantera, Kiss, Guns N Roses, Judas Priest, IronMaiden and Anthrax.
And what sort of recipes might be in here? Well they range from the immensely edible like Black Tusk grilled shrimp (from band Black Tusk, it’s not a variety of shrimp), cheese and egg party puffs, to the more colourfully named Satanic Burrito and Ridiculously Delicious Beer Bratwurst. Meat is definitely represented here including the Jagermeister Roasted Lamb but then so is hommous and healthy sounding turkey gyoza in soy vinegar sauce.
My favourites for fun value were Dexter Holland from the Offspring’s recipe which simply required package ramen to be made in a trash bag and Lemmy from Motorhead’s Krakatoa Surprise which comes with a forewarning “In theory, this is an awesome recipe, but prepare at your own risk”. It involves flour, chocolate syrup, refried beans, curry powder (1/2 pound!), a bottle of strawberry syrup and a quarter bottle of brandy (restrained given the rest). Everything but the strawberry syrup and brandy is piled into a mountain shape, then the strawberry syrup poured over it then the brandy and finally a match is struck to set it on fire. The instructions read “Eat while still burning. SURPRISE!”
There is also Weeping Brown eye Chiili by a member of Cattle Decapitation and Garbage Plate which features 8 frozen beef patties, 4 cups frozen hash browns, 8 slices of American cheese and 4 cups of cold baked beans or macaroni salad and 40 salted butter pats, unwrapped (a hangover from cooking in a hotel room I guess!) paired with a 16 ingredients hot sauce made from scratch.
And desserts are not forgotten-there are regular sounding desserts such as mud cakes, crumbles, pecan pie, Oreo pie as well as a “highly doubtful teacake with very suspicious creme” by Emilie Autumn. The “very doubtful” part is the use of fresh lavender which is not quite the type of ingredient you would expect in a heavy metal cookbook (and they use organic eggs too).
As it is a US cookbook and because these guys are on the road, there is quite a bit of use of prepackaged convenience products or brands that we can’t get here but there are a good number of recipes that use fresh, regular food (40 pats of butter notwithstanding
). And ok this is mostly a cookbook for guys (the shrimp dish might have given you that impression already
) but quite frankly I love any book that encourages a man to cook and it is a lot of fun with some actual, real recipes. And if this isn’t the perfect cookbook to give your Heavy Metal Mama or Man or just regular guy, then I don’t know what is
And thanks to the nice people at Allen & Unwin, we are giving away five copies to some lucky Not Quite Nigella readers!
For a chance to win a copy, all you have to do is tell me what is your favourite band and why. Simply add your answer as a comment to the story.
The competition ends at Midnight AEST 15th December, 2010.
You can enter this once daily. This competition is open to anyone in Australia.
