Diva Q's Barbecue: 195 Recipes for Cooking with Family, Friends & Fire: A Cookbook

THIS is the grilling cookbook I have been waiting for! I was delighted by all the beautiful photos, and the HUGE variety of recipes! You can make an entire meal on the grill using this book, and have a lot of fun doing it! Some are sure to become family favorites, and all will impress your guests! I also enjoyed the many tips and extra information about the dishes given on every page. The recipes are clearly written, with new twists on familiar favorites and lots of exciting ideas. Pineapple Stand Chicken! Meat Cake! Death by Diva! Danielle included recipes from many of her friends and family, making this book even more special, because having friends and family gathered around a fire and sharing food is what life is all about. Thank you, Danielle, for sharing your love of food, friends, family and fire with the world.

Honestly, this has to be one of the most complete and well laid out cookbooks out there, regardless of genre. Danielle covers everything you need to know; From grill/smoker types and their set up to wood choices, temperatures, sauces and rubs, appetizers, bacon, pork, beef, fish, veggies, sides, all the way through to dessert. There are even drink recipes to go with some of the food recipes. Heck, she even covers what the public should expect when attending a BBQ contest. Many of the recipes have helpful tips on things like ingredients and suggested alternates. And the full color photography and color coded layout of the recipe categories help to enhance this tome of BBQ. Whether you're a kitchen cook, backyard amateur or a seasoned pro on the BBQ circuit you can get something out of this book. Buy it now. If for no other reason than it has a recipe for Meat Cake!

I am having more fun than a barrel of monkeys with this book! There are some adventurous recipes in here, but it is also well written and easy to follow.

The key to any good book is to grab the reader's attention within the first couple of pages. This book did not do that. It grabbed my attention in the first half second. I randomly open the book to a page that said Savory nuts. Intrigued I flipped through the pages quickly then came across the words Pig candy. Getting more and more excited, I started scanning the pages and looking at the pictures as quick as I possibly could. Sometimes all you need is pictures and sometimes you need to read. All I can say is this book has a recipe from BBQ, to side dishes, dessert and appetizers. Drinks and even a section on how to set up your Grill and or Smoker. Do yourself a favor and pick up this book. The pages you will read and or scan through will leave you Breathless.

This is a great book of recipes. If you want to know how to become a better griller or smoker in general, the science of barbecue by Meathead Goldwyn is a much better book. That being said, if you already know what you're doing, the recipes are fantastic. Specifically, the fish taco, Get your jerk on, roadside chicken, peach nectar pulled pork and her slashed potato with chipotle aoli recipes are amazing. Her rubs are fantastic too. I will be trying her 180 brisket soon.

I love looking at and reading cookbooks. If at least 85% of the reviewers give the cookbook 4 or 5 stars, I usually will enjoy the book. If an overwhelming number of reviewers give the book 5 stars, I read the reviews carefully and often decide most of the reviews are written by biased friends and family, or they were written by someone being paid by a review service. I promise you, the 90%+ positive reviews on this book are TRUE. I love this gal, but I don't know her. I enjoy BBQ shows and competitions, but I have yet to venture into making it myself. The other reviews certainly support everything I discovered while initially looking through this book. I don't know when I have come across a cookbook that was so beautiful, enticing and downright seductive! I have thoroughly enjoyed Danielle on her "BBQ Crawl" TV show -- her passion for all things BBQ is truly inspring. When I saw she was publishing a book, I waited excitedly, hoping the book would share at least some of her secrets gleaned over the years. I am moved deeply with Danielle's generosity. She did not cherry-pick some recipes for this book and set some aside, requiring her fans and BBQ aficionadoes to buy two books. She put it all in! Recipes she has used to win her many ribbons and trophies -- they are in here! I never thought she would share her award-winning Death By Diva dessert recipe, and she did!! What is there not to like about this book -- the photography is exquisite, the recipes are mouth-watering, and the advice is generous and thorough. There is an index, the paper and book cover are high quality, and the outer margins of the pages are color-coded to separate each chapter for easy identification. Most important, the tone of the book is friendly and confident -- I am excited to know I will be making my own BBQ before summer is over. If you are interested in finding out about BBQ, learning more about equipment and techniques, or just finding some great new recipes, I promise you this succulent book will be most satisfying. Only one question remains unanswered: is there such a thing as a BBQ orgasm?

Personally, I'm not one for buying and/or using cookbooks, but this one peeked my curiosity. As soon as it arrived at my house, I had to check it out. Being a BBQ enthusiast myself, I had to see what it's all about, and what I saw was definitely making me hungry. Those pictures, wow !!! From starters to various types of meats, to side dishes, to desserts; it's all in there. Most recipes were even paired with a drink, and those recipe were available as well. How much better can it get ??!! But at the end, the fact that the recipes are easy to follow, and the ingredients are easy come by speaks volumes for me. I also really liked the conversion and cooking charts. I would recommend this cookbook to anyone, no matter if you're just starting out or been cooking BBQ for years, this book is a must have.

Diva is the girl. Lots of good information on every aspect of BBQ. Worth the money.