MY Food
MY Food
Every culture has its own unique flavor profile woven into the fabric of its history and traditions.
Deep in the South, food is the focal point of our memories, the centerpiece of every occasion. What began as a humble means of nourishment has evolved into a cultural art form embraced throughout the country.
Born-and-bred Southern belle Devon O’Day reminisces her way through this rich collection of the region’s signature dishes-sweet potato casserole, cornbread, country ham, and gumbo.
From Sunday dinner to Christmas morning brunch, My Southern Food chronicles the moments of life that happen around the dining room table, on the back porch, and any place you can balance a plate on your knees. This collection isn’t just a catalog of recipes; it’s an album of memories you’re sure to recognize.
The multi-talented Devon O’Day shares her rich Southern heritage in this collection of cherished regional cuisine. Raised in North Louisiana and settled in Nashville, Devon knows her way around a country kitchen. The recipes in My Southern Food reflect a lifetime of the places, people, and occasions that define Southern living. Devon journeys through this compilation of recipes with stories and anecdotes that enrich the experience of recreating her most treasured meals. You don’t have to be a Southerner to enjoy this cuisine. The appeal of these satisfying flavors is rooted in their simplicity. At the foundation of these recipes, you’ll find a spirited preparation of common foods. Immediately accessible to anyone longing for comfort, the meals in My Southern Food deliver a taste of something we’re all bound to savor.
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When the weather gets cooler in the fall, I make soup. I generally cook up a big batch and freeze some for whenever I need it. This one, with sausage, potatoes, and cabbage, is hearty and good for cold weather. It’s terrific served with thick slices of country bread, and if you have a salad as well, you’ve got a complete dinner.
Sausage, Potato, and Cabbage Soup
Serves 8
Ingredients
8 ounces mild Italian sausage meat
2 small onions, cut into 1-inch-thick slices (1 ½ cups)
6 scallions, trimmed (leaving some green) and cut into ½-inch pieces (1¼ cups)
6 cups water
1 pound potatoes, peeled and cut into ½-inch-thick slices
8 ounces savoy cabbage, cut into 1 ½-inch pieces (4 cups)
1¼ teaspoons salt
Crusty French bread
Break the sausage meat into 1-inch pieces and place it in a saucepan over high heat. Sauté, stirring and scraping the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon to keep the meat from sticking, for 10 minutes, or until the sausage is well browned.
Add the onions and scallions and cook for 1 minute. Stir in the water, potatoes, cabbage, and salt and bring to a boil. Cover, reduce the heat to low, and cook for 45 minutes.
Serve the soup in bowls with chunks of crusty French bread.
Baker’s Wife Potatoes
This classic potato gratin is made in France in many places, as is the famous dauphinois gratin, which is made with cream, milk, and garlic. The dauphinois has many more calories than this one, which is flavorful and ideal with any type of roast, from a roast chicken to a leg of lamb.
The potatoes are sliced but not washed, which would cause them to lose the starch that binds the dish. A good chicken stock and a little white wine are added for acidity, and the gratin is flavored with thyme and bay leaves. It can be prepared ahead and even frozen.
Serves 8
Ingredients
2 pounds Yukon Gold potatoes
1 tablespoon peanut oil
4 cups thinly sliced onions (about 14 ounces)
6 large garlic cloves, thinly sliced (3 tablespoons)
3 cups homemade chicken stock (page 612) or low-salt canned chicken broth
1 teaspoon salt, or to taste
½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
½ cup dry white wine
3 bay leaves
2 fresh thyme sprigs
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
Peel the potatoes and cut them into ⅛-inch-thick slices.
Heat the oil in a large saucepan. When it is hot, add the onions and sauté them for 3 to 4 minutes. Add the remaining ingredients, including the potatoes, mixing gently, and bring to a boil. Transfer the mixture to an 8-cup gratin dish.
Bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour, until most of the moisture is absorbed and the potatoes are tender when pierced with a fork. Serve.
Chicken Legs with Wine and Yams
I love both yams and sweet potatoes and use them in different ways, sometimes in soup, sometimes simply split in half and roasted in the oven. You can use either sweet potatoes or yams in this casserole, which also includes mushrooms, chicken, and wine. This is a great dish for company. It can be prepared ahead and reheated–which makes it even better.
Serves 4
Ingredients
2 tablespoons olive oil
4 whole chicken legs (about 3 pounds total), skin removed, drumsticks and thighs separated
¼ cup chopped onion
4 large shallots (about 6 ounces), sliced (about 1½cups)
8 medium mushrooms (about 5 ounces), cleaned and halved
4 small yams or sweet potatoes (about 1 pound), peeled and halved lengthwise
1 cup dry white wine
8 large garlic cloves, crushed and chopped (2 tablespoons)
¾ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
Heat the oil in a large skillet. Add the chicken pieces in batches and sauté over medium-high heat until browned on all sides, about 10 minutes.
Add the onion and cook for 1 minute. Add the shallots, mushrooms, yams or sweet potatoes, wine, garlic, salt, and pepper. Bring to a boil, cover, reduce the heat, and boil very gently for 20 minutes.
Garnish with the parsley and serve.
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What’s for dinner You’ll find all the answers you need in this eagerly awaited first cookbook from the best-selling Food Network Magazine.
Inspired by the magazine’s popular “Weeknight Cooking” section, this book is packed with great family recipes from Food Network Kitchens, plus dozens of tips from the chefs. With this book, you’ll be able to put fun new dinners on the table every night, along with dozens of simple sides and 10-minute desserts. And each recipe comes with a photograph, so you’ll see exactly what your dish will look like when you take it to the table.
Best of all, each chapter comes with an exciting mix-and-match feature that lets you write your own recipes and try new twists on your family’s favorite dishes. You’ll be able to make mac and cheese dozens of ways, throw together tasty new stir-fries, and reinvent chicken dinners again and again.
This is easy cooking at its best: Just look at the all-photo recipe index and see what grabs you. You’ll have dinner done in no time!
Look inside for 250 amazing (and amazingly easy!) recipes, plus sneak
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With this book, anyone can cook like a star!
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The KD-7000 series are easy to clean and easy to use. Double-stopper protection, strong reinforced & removable Stainless Steel platform, Acrylic faceplate protector and modular construction make these scales extremely durable.
This scale includes a removable clear LCD cover that protects the buttons and LCD from damage (great for messy recipes, soapmaking or candlemaking) With a large 7 kg (15.4lb) capacity and precise 1 gram (0.1oz) readings this scale is an incredible value and is available at most scale retailers or through our online merchants.
The KD-7000 reads in Grams, Pound;Ounces, Ounces, Pounds, & Kilograms. This makes them perfect for Home, Office, Kitchen and thousands of other uses. These scales are extremely durable and versatile
A delightful educational tool that stresses the importance of having a healthy relationship with food, this board book teaches the letters of the alphabet to tots and other gastronomes in training. Stylish and dazzling illustrations that highlight terms such as Kobe beef, pomegranate, ice cream, and farmer’s market pair with fun foodie facts to make learning the alphabet easy and enriching. A complete introduction to the alphabet and gastronomical terms, this unique book also includes a pronunciation guide, making it an ideal companion for food aficionados.
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Lavish Praise for Food from My Heart “There’s as much for the serious reader in Zarela Martínez’s book Food From My Heart as for the serious cook. Martínez’s memoirs of growing up in Mexico…make great armchair reading…” —Los Angeles Times “Restaurateur Zarela Martínez does double duty in Food From My Heart, writing brilliantly about people and culture while demonstrating how to make quite fabulous dishes.” —Cosmopolitan “Zarela Martínez is an absolute genius with flavors and this book is a great guide to her talent. I count it as one of the most interesting and invaluable additions to my library, which dates almost forty years.” —Craig Claiborne Food and life are inseparable in Mexico—not just eating to live but eating to celebrate, to come together, to worship God and spirit. In Food From My Heart, Zarela Martínez describes the connection between Mexican culture and Mexican food—a collision of Old and New World ingredients, and the culinary influences of a constantly shifting ethnic mosaic. Through the telling of her own story, Martínez reveals the inextricable bond that exists between food and religion and the way Mexicans mark birth, death, marriage, and the daily business of living. Drawing upon the influences of friends, family, and traditional foods from many regions in Mexico, Martínez has created her own personal style of cooking: imaginative and highly flavorful, easy to prepare, and evocative of the classic Mexican cooking upon which it is based. It is all brought together—the traditional and the new—in the form of memoir, stories, and more than 175 recipes to create this unique cookbook.
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Earth’s Best 3rd foods my first soups variety pack is split pea and carrot soup, butternut squash bisque, sweet potato cinnamon bisque, country vegetable chicken soup. It is easy to shop for and simple to store. Packaged in a sturdy storage tray that clearly indicates each flavor. Your baby’s little body is rapidly developing, so your choice of food will never be more important. At Earth’s Best, organically grown foods are best for your child. It makes a variety of organic products designed specifically to keep children healthy without all the preservatives, artificial flavors and pesticides that other brands use. Earth’s Best is the only full line of organic baby food. That means it’s grown without potentially harmful pesticides or fertilizers. It uses only whole grains, fruits and vegetables. They are specially quick-cooked to preserve nutrition and flavor. Earth’s Best never adds a speck of salt, refined sugar, modified food starch or artificial flavoring. Earth’s Best also never uses concentrates to make our juices. Just real food.
Earth’s Best Organic Foods
Organic foods offer countless healthful benefits for you, your children and the world around us. With The Hain Celestial Group’s family of organic brands and Earth’s Best you can be sure you are giving your family the highest quality organic foods.
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Your baby’s little body is rapidly developing, so your choice of food will never be more important. Earth’s Best believes organically grown foods are best … best for your child and best for the Earth. They make a variety of organic products designed specifically to keep children healthy without all the preservatives, artificial flavors and pesticides that other brands use. Earth’s Best is the only full line of organic baby food. That means it’s grown without potentially harmful pesticides or fertilizers. Earth’s Best uses only whole grains, fruits and vegetables. They are specially quick-cooked to preserve nutrition and flavor. Earth’s Best never adds a speck of salt, refined sugar, modified food starch or artificial flavoring. They also never use concentrates to make their juices. Just real food.
Why Organic?
Choosing organic is choosing to live a healthier life. Organic foods are produced without the use of potentially harmful chemicals and synthetic pesticides or growth hormones. This is even more important when we consider infants. For four to six months following birth, infants receive most of their nutrition from breast milk or infant formula. It is so important that these formulas contain the safest ingredients.
If ingested, potential toxic chemicals or heavy metals can lead to compromised immune system development. Likewise, young infants consume disproportionately high levels of fruits and vegetables when compared to adults. This increases their risk of exposure to potential contaminants found among non-organic products. Finally, Earth’s Best products do not contain genetically engineered ingredients (GEIs), made by inserting genes from one plant into a strain of another to produce more crops or control pests.
Why organic? It is better for you, your child and the environment they will grow up in.
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As your little one grows, you’ll have to make a lot of choices. With Earth’s Best choosing the right food is easy. They create high quality, organic products grown by the some of the best farmers, filled with the best ingredients and tested for the highest level of purity and freshness. Earth’s Best organic products help protect the earth so future generations have healthy food to eat and a healthy world to grow up in. That makes a big difference for your little one.
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Earth’s Best is the first and only full line of organic baby food. Earth’s Best organic provides “better for baby” products with the freshest, purest ingredients, so parents can nurture their baby’s health with the utmost confidence. Earth’s Best is organic certified by Oregon Tilth, an agency accredited by the USDA. That means they procure ingredients that do not contain potentially harmful synthetic pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, or genetically engineered ingredients (GEIs). It also means that they can proudly display the USDA organic logo on their packaging.
No wonder, Earth’s Best has been trusted and preferred by parents, grandparents, and caregivers alike for the past 25 years.
Today Earth’s Best offers organic formulas, snacks, meals, and even baby body products for your little one. By expanding the trusted Earth’s Best brand beyond baby foods they hope all children will grow up with the freshest and purest products possible in a clean and safe world.
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Earth’s Best produces food with the highest degree of attention to quality and safety.
Each ingredient is tested for pesticides and potentially harmful residues. No product is released until Earth’s Best quality assurance department approves laboratory results, ensuring they meet the strict standards for organic certification.
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Jess and George are two chimps who live on neighboring islands, and they think it would be a great idea to get together for banana milkshakes and coconut cake. But they have a problem–hungry sharks are swimming between the islands, and there is no way for George and Jess to get around them! No matter what they try, from flying with banana-tree leaf wings to digging a tunnel under the water, George and Jess keep hearing the chant of the hungry sharks: Yummy, yummy! Food for my tummy! Finally, Jess and George realize that all they need to do is sit down and think about the problem, and it solves itself!
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Food for My Daughters: what one mom did when the towers fell (and what you can do, too) includes thought-provoking stories, versatile recipes, and actionable tips about what you can do to grow food, community and knowledge, and to better prepare your children (and yourself!) for a changing world. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of every copy of Food for My Daughters will be donated to help grow food for those in need. Go to www.foodformydaughters.com to hear excerpts and see a video release about the book.
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