Burgers & Sliders: More than 30 gourmet recipes Hardcover – March 14, 2013

Love this book so much! Gorgeous photo on every page which is something I find so helpful. Interesting recipes from classic beef burgers to internationally inspired ones. Bought one for me and buying another for a gift.

The recipes were fun, and there was lots of variety in time for July 4th!

Let me ask your thoughts on a question that has been on my mind for some time now: does the popularity of sliders today have to do with the growing influence of Spain's tapas styles on American cuisine or is it because there's now a White Castle or a Krystal within a stone's throw of just about everywhere? Whether it is the more high brow or the more pedestrian, there's no doubt that those mini-burgers are everywhere these days. So it is just in time that we have this next new book, "Burgers and Sliders: More Than 30 Gourmet Recipes" by Miranda Ballard ($16.95, Ryland Peters & Small, 64 pp.).The book opens with a couple of obligatory regular burger recipes, but from there it goes off the charts in creativity. There's the Beef Wellington Burger in a Shortcrust Pastry Bun, Spicy Beef and Pork Sliders with Ginger and Lime, Pork and Apple Slider with Caramelized Apple Slices, Fish Pie Burger with Caper and Tartare Sauce, Chicken Caesar Sliders and Christmas Canape Sliders with Cranberry Sauce and Camembert, just to give you an idea of the selections. You can see just from those that this is the sort of book that will really get your culinary creative juices flowing. Plus, each recipe is accompanied by a full-color picture of the finished dish. You know what they say - you taste things first with your eyes. I know you'll already be salivating just by looking at what you can create from these pages.The back story to this book is it comes from a couple in England who opened a gourmet burgers business called Muddy Boots. They began by peddling their burgers at farmers markets and now have their products in grocery stores all across their country. You may not be able to get their burgers here in the U.S., but you can get this book.

Roll on summer is the thought after looking through this book. You feel like making a lot of different burgers I look forward to it.