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Home Cooking With Trisha Yearwood: Stories and Recipes to Share With Family and Friends
Copyright © 2010 by Trisha Yearwood
Photographs copyright © 2010 by Ben Fink
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Clarkson Potter/Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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All photographs are by Ben Fink with the exception of those appearing on the front jacket (by Russ Harrington);
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Yearwood, Trisha.
Home Cooking with Trisha Yearwood / Trisha Yearwood. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
1. Cookery, American—Southern style. I. Title.
TX715.2.S68Y43 2010
641.5975—dc22 2009025693
eISBN: 978-0-307-98497-5
v3.1
There are those we’ve lost along the way who continue to live on in the sharing of these recipes and the telling of these stories. I can almost hear Garth’s mom, Colleen, whispering in my ear, “The secret’s the cinnamon!” when I’m making her cabbage rolls. Every time I make chocolate pie, I will see Ben Tillman smiling at me when I walk into the Tillman House and ask for fried chicken. I’ll smile knowing that Miss Betty got to sign a few autographs along the way because of the success of her recipes in the first cookbook. And always, there is my daddy, humbly “apologizing” for some of the best meals I ever tasted, yet I know he feels proud seeing the people he loves the most represented in these pages. This book is dedicated to all those we love who aren’t with us anymore but whose lives, stories, laughter, and good food are represented here.
We love you, always.
—Gwen, Beth, and Patricia
The greatest thing that can happen to an artist is to have someone come up to you and tell you how one of your songs has changed his or her life for the better. As an artist, you enjoy this experience so much. There is nothing in music that could please you more … until you see it happen to your spouse. Talk about pride! To see people’s faces light up as they are telling Trisha how a song moved them to become more than what they were, to take chances, to take responsibility … to take control. That is what communicating and communicating well is all about. Now take that one step further. I cannot count the times I have seen someone approach Trisha with his or her cookbook in hand to either share a story or ask a question—and they always ask Trisha for her signature inside the cover. I have watched her tirelessly sign, exchange recipe tips, laugh, and swap stories over the first cookbook. If you have ever met Miss Yearwood and talked to her about family traditions and meals, then you will understand what I am about to say. I can’t tell which one she enjoys more: cooking or singing! She does both with a love unequaled. As her husband, I am very proud of all of her accomplishments, and I am very happy for her success. But I find myself being even happier for her because she loves what she does. And I think that is the secret to her success in music and in cooking. The greatest compliment you can give a cook is to ask for more, and that is all I hear as I stand by and listen to people talk to Trisha. For those people and for myself, I am very happy to introduce a second helping of heartfelt recipes from our family to yours.
Garth Brooks
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d be sitting here writing an introduction to a second cookbook! Mom, Beth, and I were so overwhelmed and thrilled at the response to
Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen.
What a sweet surprise! We enjoyed getting to meet so many of you out on the road, and exchanging recipes and stories. I was happy to find out that our way of life was shared by many of you in all parts of the country, not just the south! What I learned from you was that you liked our family stories because they reminded you of your own lives, and that you liked our recipes because they were easy to prepare and didn’t have a lot of fancy, hard-to-find ingredients. We decided to stick to the saying “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”
We have a wonderful extended family, full of cousins, aunts, uncles, and friends who were kind enough to contribute recipes. For instance, it was from those family members and friends that we found my grandmother Elizabeth Yearwood’s infamous
Coconut Cake with Coconut Lemon Glaze
recipe, which she used to make for my daddy.
Since we’ve received a lot of recipes that are traditions in our extended family but are new to us, we’ve been doing a lot of testing. We didn’t want to include anything in this book that we hadn’t
made ourselves and didn’t absolutely
love.
This has worked out well for our family members and friends, who have really benefited from our testing—and gained a few pounds to boot!
Some of these newer recipes already feel like old favorites. I make things like
Crockpot Macaroni and Cheese
,
Baked Bean Casserole
, and
Asparagus Bundles
so often now that they feel like dishes I’ve been making all my life. The
Key Lime Cake
recipe that I got from family friend
Angela Spivey has become the new dessert hit at my house.
One of the best things about putting together this collection has been discovering new recipes. We all tend to stick to what we know, and I’m usually a bit wary about trying out something new on my family, but this cookbook has made me brave! It’s a real treat for me to get to introduce some “new” old recipes to my family, like my grandma Lizzie Paulk’s
Old-Fashioned Strawberry Shortcake
, and fresh ideas for breakfast, such as
Apple Dumplings
and
Country Quiche
.
