Rebecca Lang's Southern Entertaining for a New Generation Review

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(More customer reviews)I cannot say enough good things about this cookbook! Rebecca has created a series of wonderful recipes which are not only easy to prepare but absolutely delicious. Her menus for entertaining include a timeline for shopping, preparing the food, etc., which make this a wonderful guide to entertaining for young adults. This is a must have for all southern households!

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Thanks to Rebecca Lang's Southern Entertaining for a New Generation, you no longer have to be raised in the South to entertain your guests with the hospitality of a Southerner. Designed for her own generation's needs, this creative book on entertaining is packed with tips and hints for easier cooking, and timelines to simplify the process of entertaining. In short, it's about how to host parties with less stress while serving food as good as grandmother used to make. Unlike most books on entertaining, the chapters are organized by the time of day in which a party is scheduled. The recipes are easy enough for the novice cook, and timelines are included to make sure that all of the food will be ready at the appropriate time. Each step is listed by the exact time of day at which it should be done, even when to run the dishwasher. The chapters all contain three or four party themes, each with recipes, serving piece suggestions, detailed timelines, and grocery lists. Some recipes even list lighter ingredients that can be substituted for high-fat ones without compromising taste. Each menu also includes wine suggestions to lessen the stress of choosing wine, even suggesting which glass to use and what to do if the host doesnt have enough wine glasses. Because so many young adults lead busy lives, the menus also include shortcuts in case there isn't enough time to make the entire menu from scratch. One of the most helpful features of Rebecca Langs Southern Entertaining for a New Generation is that the book provides serving suggestions for younger cooks who don't yet own all the serving pieces they need. "There is no reason not to host a party because you dont have enough china," she insists. "You can still have a great time by using some of the fun, creative suggestions in this book."

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The Black Family Dinner Quilt Cookbook Review

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(More customer reviews)I've enjoyed owning The Black Family Reunion Cookbook for many years, not only for its excellent recipes but also for the many narratives.
Once again, the Council has issued a winner. The recipes I've tried out of this new book have worked as well as their original cookbook. Actually, I didn't notice that these recipes are supposed to be 'healthier' until I began to write this review!
I've particularly enjoyed the black-eyed pea soup, the mustard greens and potato soup, and the collard greens and turkey wings. The pound cake recipe is standard, but the pear upside-down cake is terrific. The banana oatmeal cookies will be a hit for you. The chicken broccoli casserole is yummy!
I could go on, but I'll just say that every recipe I've tried has worked well. This is good home-style cooking, nothing too fancy, and the recipes are well written.
However, it's the stories and parables running through the book that make it special. I've always been a fan of Ms. Bethune, and the narratives here about her are particularly enjoyable.
This book is not only excellent, but it's also an excellent buy!

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As a shared meal nourishes the body, so a quilt, passed from generation to generation, warms and nourishes the spirit. Both recipes and quilts preserve the culture and history of a people and their social, historic, and artistic connections to their past and their future. Celebrating both these traditions, The Black Family Dinner Quilt offers recipes based on both traditional and contemporary African-American cuisine with recipes full of down-home flavor but lower in fat, salt, and sugar. Southern Ham and Shrimp Soup, Country Chicken and Biscuits, Jamaican Pork, Creole Beans and Rice, Creamy Macaroni and Cheese, and even Bethune Sweet Potato Pie are just a few of the healthful and soul-satisfying dishes you'll find in these pages.

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Mrs. Whaley Entertains: Advice, Opinions, and 100 Recipes from a Charleston Kitchen Review

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(More customer reviews)I enjoyed "visiting with" Mrs. Whaley again, although perhaps not as much as in her gardening book. When reading, you feel as if you are sitting in front of her, engaged in listening to stories about Charleston, her past, and her family, and about making guests feel at home. I don't think the recipes will take the world by storm--most are variations on old favorites. But you pick up tidbits about entertaining and the relaxed southern style. This book and/or her gardening book would make wonderful gifts, and would be perfect to tuck into a gift basket along with some other items. It is the kind of book you want to pick up when you've had a hard day or have a rainy afternoon to enjoy!

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The Great Southern Food Festival Cookbook: Celebrating Everything from Peaches to Peanuts, Onions to Okra Review

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(More customer reviews)Over 300 dishes from 75 Southern food festivals provide a fine representation of modern Southern cooking. Georgia Pecan-Crusted French Toast, Cornmeal-breaded Fried Okra, and Moon Pie Bread Pudding are but a few of the easy dishes blending old and new approaches. Photos highlight some dishes but the majority don't need them.


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Best of the Best from Alabama Cookbook: Selected Recipes from Alabama's Favorite Cookbooks (Best of the Best Cookbook Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a greast cookbook with lots of good recipes... A excellent addition to a kitchen library.

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Cook up some down-home southern comfort straight from the Heart of Dixie! Picture magnolias blossoming, their gentle fragrance coming through the dining room windows, and a menu of Red Pepper Bisque, Walnut and Garlic Linguine, Sweet Potato Muffins, and White Chocolate Butter Pecan Cake. Or a picnic on the banks of a slow-moving river, red-and-white checkered blanket, the best of friends, and a basket full of The Best Fried Chicken, Corn Salad, Roasted Sweet Potato Wedges, and Tomato Pie.You won't find these easy-to-make recipes in just any old cookbook. But you will find them in this unique collection of over 350 outstanding recipes from eighty-two of Alabama's best cookbooks. And, as a special treat for collectors, every featured cookbook is listed with ordering information.The original Best of the Best from Alabama, published in 1989, was the eighth volume in the acclaimed Best of the Best State Cookbook Series. With more than two million copies sold, this series is known nationwide as the definitive source for state and regional cooking. This all-new edition continues the mission of Preserving America's Food Heritage.

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My Southern Food: A Celebration of the Flavors of the South Review

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(More customer reviews)From cover to cover, I have tasted the charm with my eyes and my southern heart! I have tried numerous recipes, perfectly pleased with each one. The way Devon O'Day presents the flair of the South is exactly right, on each page I can see my dear, departed mother, and can taste her southern cooking! My Southern Food is a walk down memory lane with fantastic recipes that are sure to please, and it makes a great gift! The Cathead Cheese Biscuits are to LIVE for!

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Celebrate the South with this beautifully illustrated cookbook. Southern food has rightfully earned its place as one of the most beloved and popular forms of cooking in the United States. However, Southern food doesn't have to be prepared just in the South- delicious Southern dishes can bring appreciative diners from any state to the table.My Southern Food will take readers and cooks on a mouthwatering journey with photographs, stories, and 200 recipes that make this much more than a traditional cookbook. Sunday Dinner and Other Family GatheringsBreakfast in the South Treasures from the Southern Garden Summer Celebrations What Every Southern Lady Knows Cooking for Company Glorious Southern Desserts Eating Out Southern Style

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Camille Glenn's Old-Fashioned Christmas Cookbook Review

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(More customer reviews)Camille Glenn's book of old fashioned Christmas recipes is a pure delight. Not only are the recipes clear, easy to read and tasty when prepared, but the format is "cook friendly" and easy to follow. Most ingredients for the recipes can be found at the grocery store, with a few exceptions. I've owned and read many cookbooks over the years, and I would highly recommend this Louisville, Kentucky cooking teacher's book as either a gift for an aspiring chef or as a nice Christmas gift for anyone who enjoys fine cuisine and Southern hospitality.

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Cider Beans, Wild Greens, and Dandelion Jelly: Recipes from Southern Appalachia Review

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(More customer reviews)"My place, in the midst of this abundance of nature, is back in a mountain hollow on a bad dirt road surrounded by forest, wild blackberries, mountain critters, wildflowers, a few neighbors, and a passel of 'dawgs.'"
So writes Joan Aller, author of this season's must-have cookbook, "Cider Beans, Wild Greens, and Dandelion Jelly: Recipes from Southern Appalachia."

And it's not like Joan Aller is an East Tennessee native who's walked the Appalachian trail with the likes of Bill Bryson or South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford. She's from the West, and might be living there still but for urban sprawl and environmental ugliness. So she first moved to Nashville, which is very much a city, and then further East.

Joan Aller is an artist by profession and fearless by nature. No soon had she painted her mailbox than she was off, photographing barns and bridges and learning the ways of her new neighbors. That led quickly to food --- and five years of research. At the end, she had gorgeous photographs of Southern Appalachia, luscious photographs of Southern food, and 8,000 pages of recipes and history.

The good news is that Ms. Aller and her editors put her work on a diet. The result is a 212-page book that was extravagantly handsome until my wife and I started dog-earing the pages. Silly us --- we want to cook almost everything here. Our only non-starters: Appalachian wine, root beer and --- no kidding --- moonshine.

See if just the names don't make you look at your watch to see if it's time for some meal or other: Kentucky "hot brown" (turkey-bacon-Colby cheese sandwich drenched in Tabasco-spiked milk gravy), Mississippi Sin (French bread, cream cheese, cheddar cheese, cooked ham, sour cream, accented with sweet onion, bell pepper and Worcestershire sauce), Butternut Squash Soup with Sweet Tea and Ginger, George Washington Carver's Sweet Potato Pie, Bourbon Sweet Potato Casserole, Corn Cob Jelly, And a dip made of equal parts chopped sweet onion, grated cheese and mayonnaise, baked for 25 minutes at 350.

And....but you see the problem --- with the possible exception of boring old blue cheese balls, this book rocks like the Allman Brothers.

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There are many cookbooks about Southern cooking, but precious few celebrate the southern Appalachian food that has sustained mountain folk past and present. Thankfully, we now have Joan E. Aller's Cider Beans, Wild Greens, and Dandelion Jelly.Featuring more than 150 recipes for down-home, soul-satisfying dishes, Cider Beans, Wild Greens, and Dandelion Jelly is more than just a cookbook. Complete with passages on the history, places, and people of southern Appalachia, along with lush full-color photography of the food and scenery of the southern Appalachian Mountains, Cider Beans, Wild Greens, and Dandelion Jelly serves as both a cookbook and a guided tour of the local lore, traditions, and culture of this uniquely American region.

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The Best Places to Kiss Cookbook: Recipes from the Most Romantic Restaurants, Cafes, and Inns of the Pacific Northwest Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this cookbook because so many of the recipes looked appealing. It turns out that many are also relatively easy to make. The book also includes little romantic "tips" and has a directory of special inns and restaurants in the Northwest. It would make a wonderful gift. This book is a gem!

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From delectable Duck Breast Salad (Crush in Portland, Oregon) to sensuous Green Tea Crème Brûlée (Dragonfly Bistro in Leavenworth, Washington), this colorfully illustrated cookbook lets lovers experience at home the Northwest's most romantic restaurants, wineries, B&Bs, and inns. Covering breakfast, appetizers and small plates, salads, main courses, and desserts, the book includes engaging sketches of each recipe's source establishment, as well as cooking tips and reasons why these dishes are the perfect companion for that special tête-à-tête. Informative sidebars profile romantic dining, aphrodisiacs, wine pairings, and other Northwest epicurial excursions.

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Southern Living Comfort Food: A Delicious Trip Down Memory Lane (Southern Living (Hardcover Oxmoor)) Review

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(More customer reviews)This cookbook has quickly become one of my favorites of the hundreds of cookbooks that I own. All of the personal stories and anecdotes make for great reading an the recipes are simple, down-home, recipes that brings back fond memories of my childhood. I highly recommend it for the "Foodies" that you know.

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The Black Family Reunion Cookbook: Recipes and Food Memories Review

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(More customer reviews)I've owned this book for over five years, and it is best cookbook I own. Recipes are well-tested, don't cost very much to make, use readily available ingredients, and many are simple enough to make for weeknight suppers. I recommend the chicken gumbo, the Carter Hill barbeque ribs, the eggplant casserole, the yam pork chop skillet, the Jamaican bannana cake, and the honey crunch pecan pie. I recommend this cookbook as a gift for college students because the recipes are easy and delicious.

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The Black Family Reunion Celebrations, organized by The National Council of Negro Women and held in seven cities across America every summer, celebrate and preserve the values, traditions, and strengths of the African-American family. Inspired by these festivals, The Black Family Reunion Cookbook contains more than 250 recipes from home kitchens across America, seasoned with warm memories and "homemade love."Including personal reminiscences from celebrities such as Natalie Cole, Wilma Rudolph, Patti LaBelle, and Spetman College President Johnetta Cole, this unique collection reflects the local, national, and international heritage of the Black community. It offers dishes for every occasion and every taste, from African-inspired Mustard Greens with Peanut Sauce to down-home Family Famous Chicken and Dumplings, from a traditional gumbo to sophisticated Sweet Potato Smoked Turkey Bisque, and, in honor of the council's founder, Mary McLeod Bethune, her own recipe for her celebrated Sweet Potato Pie.

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Paula Deen Celebrates: Best Dishes and Best Wishes for the Best Times of Your Life Review

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(More customer reviews)Just in time for the holidays, I got this book. I love Paula Deen's show and her cookbooks always have amazingly simple dishes to prepare.
The author's personal stories and remembrances are what really made this book for me. As a girl from the south, these recipes are like things your Mammaw and Mama used to cook up for the family for a special occasion.
These recipes aren't necessarily things that you would eat in your everyday meals; they're for celebrations. If you're looking for a Southerner to eat tofu and bean sprouts for Thanksgiving, you've got it all wrong and would do better with buying another book. I prefer my tofu marinated in soy sauce and stir fried with pea pods and broccoli, but I'd rather have a turkey and all the trimmins for Thanksgiving.
The recipe book, and I hesitate to call it that because it's more of an entertaining book, has wonderful meal planning recipes and ideas for celebrating with your family & friends. Although I'd have loved more entertaining ideas, maybe next time, Paula?


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Bless Your Heart: Saving the World One Covered Dish at a Time Review

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(More customer reviews)My husband asked me what I was chuckling about. I said I was reading a new cookbook. Then I told him "Take this cookbook and hide it. I want to cook and eat everything in it."
Two authentic Southern girls have put together THE Southern cookbook. Operating under the accurate assumption that anyone in her right culinary mind would want a cookbook suggesting right offerings for the right occasions, they've organized this set of recipes and recollections around church potlucks, sickbeds, gifts, football and clean-up days; it's not the regular divisions of appetizers, soups, salads, main dishes, desserts and such.
Patsy Caldwell knows how to coach the preparation of a good, not-too-hard dish; Amy Lyles tells the funny story of what that good dish really MEANS.
Put a bib on for this one - you're going to drool.

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Bless Your Heart celebrates the uniquely loving way that Southerners show they care with food (which can usually be frozen and reheated). What Southern lady hasn't shown up with a covered dish (with her name written on masking tape on the bottom so she can get her pan back) at the church potluck, the school fundraiser, or at the home of someone who has lost a loved one to show just how much she cares? Bless Your Heart includes storiesthat perfectly and humorously capture the occasions when nothing else will work but putting aluminum foil overa favorite 9 x 13-inch dish filled with a best "show off" recipe.Here aremore than two hundred recipes that are always popular at family reunions, holiday gatherings, tailgate parties, and the always popular all-day singing and dinner on the grounds. Whatever the occasion, Bless Your Heart aims to save the world one covered dish at a time.

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Southern Plate: Classic Comfort Food That Makes Everyone Feel Like Family Review

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(More customer reviews)I have followed Christy's blog for a long time. I found her site when I was searching for a recipe for sweet tea, which I'd never made. Her recipe was SO easy, and tastes incredible! That same day, I made her strawberry pie, which was as easy as, well, pie. Christy can't be topped. Her recipes are ideal for "regular" cooks like me, who are cooking for families on a budget, trying to satisfy picky eaters, and trying to make great food around time constraints.
Christy has a way of explaining things that make it SO easy to follow her recipes. I am a pretty good cook, and I enjoy trying new recipes with varying levels of difficulty. Some cookbooks just don't guide you through some of the more challenging steps or the directions are unclear, and I waste time standing there trying to interpret what they mean. But reading and preparing Christy's recipes is like having a good friend standing by you, guiding you through and cheering you on as you go.
I will also be getting a copy for my daughter, as she's just "out of the nest" and learning to cook on her own. Since I can't be there myself to help her cook, I'm going to send Christy's book as my "proxy", and that's the next best thing to being there!
Thank you, Christy, for helping me feed my family good food that they like easily, quickly, inexpensively, and with love!

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