Award winning author Karen Patterson put together a great combination of tested recipes for readers who asked for a cookbook from the restaurants featured in Eating Your Way Across Ohio. Restaurant owners and managers generously shared some of their best recipes with Patterson, so readers can make the dishes at home, but eventually revisit the restaurants to try the original dish and compare their homemade results. Many recipes use down home ingredients, while other ingredients may be found in the gourmet section of the grocery store.
The unique blend of recipes featured in Recipes from Ohio's Must Places to Eat include comfort food like Cruisers Meatloaf, Greek Garden's Beef and Macaroni Casserole, Nutcracker Ham Loaf, Boondock's Crab Cakes, La Palma's Beefy Chimichangas, Clay Haus's German Potato Salad, J.R. Hook's Bayou Whipped Potatoes, Goodwin's Homemade Onion Rings, Beaugard's Sweet Potato Pie, Kermit's Buckeye Pie, Young's Bread Pudding with Cinnamon Sugar Topping, and Tom's Old Fashioned Banana Split Sundae.
Patterson also included many appetizing gastronomic dishes with five-star flair like The Forum's Soulaki over Rice, The Refectory's Pheasant Terrine, Lake White's Bacon and Bleu Cheese Steak Salad, Murphin Ridge's Smokehouse Salmon, Grouse Nest's Blackened Catfish with Pineapple-Papaya Salsa, Shaw's Almond Crusted Walleye, Root's Jumbalaya, TJ's Cajun Shrimp and Sausage Fettucine, Doc's Baba Ghannouj and the famous Lazarus Chicken Salad.
Just like a satisfying meal, this book hits the spot.
Recipes from Ohio's Must Places to Eat is fully illustrated and organized by the contributing restaurants located in each city and county in six Ohio geographic regions.