Southern Cooking With Family Recipes

The September 2008 cover of Redbook magazine caught my eye.

“Country Music Singer, Trisha Yearwood dishes up some NEW family recipes with down-home heart.”

I read the magazine article where Trisha talks of putting a cookbook together with her mother and sister. She speaks of asking her mother for measurements of ingredients to which she would reply with, “Oh, just sprinkle in the salt.” I laughed when I thought of my own experience of asking my grandmother for her recipe of Sour Cream Coconut Cake and my mother of how to make homemade biscuits. Not following a recipe, they would try to explain how to make these. For myself, I need a recipe. My grandmother took the time to measure out the ingredients for the Sour Cream Coconut Cake. She wrote the recipe down for me and signed it with Love, Nannie. I thought it very sweet of her. I now can make the delicious cake but no such luck with the homemade biscuits. I just buy them frozen.

After reading the magazine article I thought, I’ll check the library catalog to see if we have a copy of this cookbook. Sure enough, there it was. My wait on the reserve list was well worth it. I found the family stories entertaining and couldn’t help but reminisce over some of my own family times cooking. I love southern food and I can’t wait to try some of the new recipes.

The title of the cookbook is, Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen.