Southern Living


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This cookbook focuses on easy, great-tasting foods and recipes for busy weeknights. Over 300 kitchen-tested recipes feature ingredient lists and minimal preparation time, and many of them make great use of the microwave and slow cooker.




Quick-Fix Dinners


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The dinnertime solution for busy cooks who want delicious, down-home meals without spending hours in the kitchen. After a long, busy day, the task of cooking a wholesome meal for a hungry crowd can be daunting. While home-style favorites are comforting, the time spent chopping, prepping, cooking, and serving can quickly turn a feel-good dish into a stressful production. Quick-Fix Dinners comes to the rescue! We've streamlined crowd-pleasing Southern classics and modern fare to bring you recipes that take just 30, 20, or even 10 minutes to prepare, using fresh ingredients, grocery store staples, and easy shortcuts. Bring Big Easy flavor to the table in just 30 minutes with Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya, or whip up a savory Barbecue Mac and Cheese casserole in 20 minutes. There are desserts too, including a Prep & Forget Choc-Cinn Latte Cake that can be prepared in just 10 minutes. With a calendar for menu planning and the Southern Living Test Kitchen's seal of approval, you can rest assured that these meals are as delicious as they are easy to make.




The Southern Living Party Cookbook


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This new essential guide to entertaining is divided by occasion, offering a fresh lineup of menus and ideas from Oxford, Mississippi's go-to caterer for every celebratory scenario life serves up. In this update to the best-selling book of our mothers' and grandmothers' era, Elizabeth's tell-it-like-it-is voice provides a twist to the classic Southern advice that is a refresher for entertainers of any age or experience. Packed with delicious recipes from the original book like Smoked Salmon Canapes, Hot Cheese Squares, and Brandy Alexanders, the book also includes popular picks from the current pages of Southern Living as well as Elizabeth's treasured recipe box. The Southern Living Party Cookbook is an entertaining handbook loaded with lifestyle tips and hilarious Heiskell stories, along with lush photography to help you get the look from table setting to plated dish.




Southern Living What's for Supper


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Southern Living solves the constant dinner dilemma with What's for Supper. This all-inclusive book of easy and delicious alternatives to fast food is a one-stop guide to quicker meals families can simply enjoy. Contributing Editor and Southern Living Test Kitchens expert Vanessa McNeil Rocchio has provided over 150 of her favorite 30-minute recipes that are fast, simple, and full of fl avor. From kid-favorites like Grilled Chicken Tacos and Tangy Turkey Burgers to sure-to-become family favorites like Chicken Cordon Bleu and Crunchy Crab Cakes, there's something for everyone in What's for Supper. The book also includes tips and advice for overcoming even the greatest mealtime challenges, including pleasing picky eaters and making a meal solely from items in the pantry. From a quicker-than-quick "No-Cook Supper" to a meal just for two, What's for Supper is today's answer to speedy, hassle-free cooking. Readers can trust Southern Living to provide only the best and most reliable recipes-so never again will they have to worry when their family asks "What's for supper?"




Southern Living: Busy Moms Weeknight Favorites


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A taste tempting assortment of family-friendly, quick-and-easy, and wholesome meals for the entire family features 130 recipes for dishes designed to appeal to both picky youngsters and their parents that can be prepared with a minimum of time and fuss, accompanied by simple menu plans, complete grocery lists, and nutritional analyses.




Southern Living Annual Recipes 2012


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Published since 1979, Southern Living Annual Recipes provides every single recipe from a year's worth of Southern Living magazine in one complete volume. From large, family-style meals, to easy-to-pull-together weekend brunches, to everyday family-pleasing treats--with gorgeous photographs, step-by-step instructions, and more than a dash of genteel Southern charm and style-the book includes dozens of menus and over 100 step-by-step photographs from the renowned Test Kitchen professionals at Southern Living. This hefty volume serves as a cookbook as well as a reference book. The step-by-step recipes are clear and easy to understand, and each one is accompanied by cook and prep times to help the home cook schedule time perfectly. The book includes attractive full-color photographs as well as over 100 step-by-step photos to make recipes accessible for home cooks on any level. Cookbook exclusives include: "Test Kitchens Notebook"-insider tips from Southern Living Foods Editors and Test Kitchen staffers "Cook's Notes"-reader comments about their favorite recipes Bonus recipes not found in the 2012 magazine, including "Test Kitchen Favorites" Of course Southern Living Annual Recipes is complete with the kind of cozy, Southern distinction that truly draws readers in and has made this annual a much anticipated favorite of Southern readers for over 30 years.




Southern Living: Ultimate Quick & Easy Cookbook


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More than four hundred easy-to-prepare recipes from the test kitchens of Southern Living feature a wide variety of luscious dishes for families on the go, including appetizers, main courses and side dishes, salads, breads, and desserts, in a cookbook that features special flags for dishes that take ten, twenty, or thirty minutes to prepare. 20,000 first printing.




Southern Living Busy Moms Weeknight Favorites


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Let`s hear it for every busy mom`s new best friend! This all-new cookbook puts the emphasis on fast, family-friendly, and wholesome meals. So Mom can have more time to spend with her family, and less time scrambling in the kitchen. Designed to appeal to picky kids and discerning parents alike, Southern Living Busy Moms Weeknight Favorites features simple yet delectable main course recipes with easy-to-make side dishes that transform weeknight cooking into a meal to look forward to, not something to stress over. Every turn of the page reveals one great recipe after another, with quick tips and mouth-watering photography. 130 Southern Living kitchen-tested recipes were carefully selected for both kid appeal and ease of preparation. In addition, Southern Living food pros and busy moms across the country share real-world advice for getting in and out of the kitchen in a flash, with meals their kids love. Features: 130 easy recipes appeal to the diverse palates of today`s kids Simple menus with quick-to-fix sides round out dinner in no timeGrocery lists take the guesswork out of shoppingNutritional analysis for each recipeRecipes include classic kid cuisine that cooks up super quick.




The Southern Living Community Cookbook


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Southern food and food stories are bound together. This book will reflect people, regardless of where they come form, who claim Southern food as their own, whether for a lifetime or a mealtime. People feel deep affection for their local community cookbooks, especially those well-worn volumes that serve as a timestamp of a particular place and time. No other type of recipe collection is more generous, gracious, and welcoming. Before we give you a bite, we Southern cooks have to tell you about what we've made. Southern food is evocative, so our food and food stories are bound together in our communities. A memorable Southern cookbook holds good food and a good read, the equivalent of a brimming recipe box plus the scribbled notes and whispered secrets that cover the tips, advice, and stories that a generous cook shares with family members, friends, and neighbors. These recipes bring all sorts of cooks, recipes, and stories to a common table to bring readers a cookbook filled with good things to eat that have something to say.




For the Love of the South


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Named by Garden & Gun as one of the best books of 2018, For the Love of the South captures the essence of Southern culture—a deep devotion to family, friends, and food—in a charming cookbook featuring delicious, comforting recipes, her recollections of growing up on the bayous of Louisiana, and more than 100 full-color and black-and-white photographs. Amber Wilson’s popular blog, For the Love of the South, reflects the generosity, cordiality, and sense of tradition that are the heart of Southern culture. In her engaging posts, she shares personal, entertaining stories about her childhood in the deep South, pays tribute to her heritage, and presents mouthwatering recipes that showcase the best of the region’s cooking, accompanied by gorgeous photos. In this first book, drawn from her popular website, she brings together 100 delectable, accessible, and easy-to-make recipes for Southern classics, and mixes them with delightful family anecdotes, which convey her love and respect for her roots. A terrific cook and captivating writer, Amber is also an accomplished photographer. For the Love of the South showcases 100 of her pictures—both black-and-white and color images of ingredient prep and finished dishes, as well as photos that evoke quintessential Southern life. No matter where in the country you live, no matter if you’ve barely used a stove or are an old hand around the kitchen, Amber teaches you how to master a host of Southern dishes, from starters to desserts. The recipes use inexpensive, readily available ingredients and come with instructive, encouraging directions. Learn to make a roux, perfect the popover, fry okra, lattice a piecrust, and create irresistible gumbos and jambalayas like a true Southerner. From Pain Perdu, Pimento Hushpuppies, Corn Bisque, and Spicy Oven-Roasted Okra to Tomato and Bacon Sandwich with Chipotle Mayonnaise, Nashville Hot Chicken, Cajun Jambalaya, and Bacon-Latticed Apple Pie, there’s something tasty for everyone. Amber offers a pantry-full of time- and money-saving kitchen tips—from storing and freezing bacon to prolonging fresh berries in the fridge, seasoning cast-iron skillets, and making vanilla extract—and provides helpful do-ahead and leftover-saving tips for many recipes as well. Grab a chair, sit down for a spell, and enjoy a taste of Southern life and food with For the Love of the South.