New Arrival: Cookbook: Country Cooking from a Redneck Kitchen

Country Cooking from a Redneck Kitchen

Francine Bryson with Ann Volkwein

ISBN: 9780553448450

Read May 3, 2016

Local author and TV personality shows off great recipes in this sequel cookbook.

I don't normally review cookbooks, but I couldn't resist mentioning this one. Francine is down-to-earth and funny, and honest about redneck or southern dining habits without getting either defensive or haughty about them, which is a hard road to walk these days.

I wanted especially to give a shout-out to recipes that really make this book stand out:

Fried Chicken 

Lemon-Herb Chicken 

Bourbon and Coke Wings

(oven-roasted) BBQ Pork Butt

Beef Crunch Bake (also known as Taco Bake when there's taco seasoning in it) 

Squirrel Pot Pie (the award given for the first cookbook to have an actual squirrel recipe)

Tuna Casserole (yes lord)

Daddy's Chicken and Rice (although we called it Chicken Bog)

Pumpkin Curry Soup (the first of these I don't remember from childhood, but OH MY GOD - so good)

Fried Green Tomatoes (in case you're a heathen and don't know how to fry tomatoes proper)

And now for the crowning achievements:

Upside-Down Apple Bacon Pie

and
Lemonade Rolls (they're just like cinnamon rolls, but LEMON!  Heaven.  I actually died.)

Great cookbook, great narrative voice, and great food.