Trisha Yearwood, host of Food Network’s Trisha’s Southern Kitchen, is adored by fans as one of country music’s top stars, but among family and friends, Trisha Yearwood is best known for another talent: cooking.
Throughout her life–from her humble roots in Georgia to her triumphant recording years in Nashville and a fulfilling married life with husband Garth Brooks in Oklahoma–Trisha has always enjoyed feeding those she loves. Now she dishes up a collection of more than 120 of her go-to recipes in a tribute to both home-grown cooking and family traditions.
Trisha believes a recipe always tastes better when it has a memory attached to it. Here, she teams up with her mother and sister to share their family’s best-loved recipes. This is the kind of classic comfort food you’ll want at the heart of your own family’s mealtime memories. Inside is a full menu of Southern fare with a contemporary twist. But you don’t have to be a Southerner to enjoy Yearwood family favorites such as:
Trisha’ s Chicken Tortilla Soup
Gwen’s Fried Chicken with Milk Gravy
Stuffed Pork Chops
Breakfast Sausage Casserole
Blackberry Cobbler
Banana Pudding
Along with the recipes for inviting soups, textural salads, home-style family entrées, colorful side dishes, and irresistible desserts, Trisha shares everything from charming personal anecdotes to practical advice, time-saving tips, and creative ingredient substitutions to accommodate all tastes.
With full-color photographs taken in and around Trisha’s homes and a foreword by Garth Brooks, this soul-warming slice of Southern life will delight country music fans and home cooks alike. Best of all, this is un-pretentious food that is easy to put together, satisfies even big country appetites, and tastes like home. Trisha’ s warm evocations of pre-paring food for loved ones will transport you back to your own childhood. These are recipes you’ll enjoy with your family for years to come.
MY REVIEW: Trisha Yearwood is one of my very favorite entertainers. Such an appealing personality, and a voice that just won't quit! This book is written in a warm, personal style, and it offers great recipes and cooking advice and an up-close look at this talented and likeable country music superstar. Family, friends, food, and an interesting life all come together for a very satisfying read. The recipes range from familiar favorites like Meatloaf, Banana Pudding, Blackberry Cobbler, and Fried Chicken with Milk Gravy, to dishes with a different spin like Chicken Tortilla Soup, Sweet & Crunchy Garden Salad, and Pecan Pie Muffins. Making good food and good family memories is what this book is all about, and it will resonate with many of us whose happiest times involve cooking with family and friends.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Country music superstar, Food Network standout, and bestselling cookbook author Trisha Yearwood shows how delicious foods and wholesome dishes are part of the same balanced lifestyle.
Trisha Yearwood is as much a force in the kitchen as she is on stage. But after years of enjoying decadent Southern comfort food, her culinary philosophy is evolving. As Trisha says, “I have adopted an 80/20 rule: 80 percent of the time I make good choices; 20 percent of the time I let myself splurge a little.”
Whether surprisingly virtuous or just a little bit sinful, the recipes in Trisha’s Table all bring that unmistakable authenticity you’ve come to love from Trisha. You’ll find brand-new dishes emblematic of the variety and balance Trisha champions. They skimp on anything but flavor, including dairy-free Angel Hair Pasta with Avocado Pesto, low-calorie Billie’s Houdini Chicken Salad, vegetarian Smashed Sweet Pea Burgers, and tasty, high-protein Edamame Parmesan, alongside too-good-to-give-up family favorites, such as Slow Cooker Georgia Pulled-Pork Barbecue, Chicken Tortilla Casserole, Snappy Pear-Cranberry Crumble, and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls.
Trisha wants to feed her loved ones—and yours, too—food that tastes good and food that’s good for you. So pull up a seat at Trisha’s Table and dig in!
MY REVIEW: A cookbook from entertainer and Food Network star Trisha Yearwood is always a treat. Like most of her readers and viewers, Trisha is a cook, not a trained chef. Her childhood experiences blended with her career highlights and the camaraderie of her family and friends blend well with a love of cooking and sharing good food with good people. I am a longtime fan of Trisha's music, and I also greatly enjoy watching "Trisha's Southern Kitchen" on TV. Her latest cookbook, "Trisha's Table" reflects her traditional Southern cooking roots along with her new "80/20" food philosophy: 80 percent sensible & 20 percent splurge. While keeping with her Georgia born & raised food favorites, she has reinvented and reimagined many recipes--this book has a very fresh look and feeling to it. Trisha is married to singing star Garth Brooks, whom she says is also a very good cook. Her sister, Beth, along with other family members, frequently guests on the show. I really like the sisters in the kitchen together--they make great food and have a great time. As well as working on a healthier approach to eating, Trisha has been working out, and she looks fabulous! While Trisha is not a dietitian, and there are no nutritional breakdowns for the recipes, "Trisha's Table" may just kick-start your own new approach to a healthier lifestyle. Here are some wonderful recipes that offer "food for thought": "Cran-Apple Crisp"; "Spinach Frittata"; "Power Balls"; "Black Bean Chili and Rice"; "Tortellini Soup"; "Wild Rice and Mushroom Soup"; "Pork Tenderloin with Honey Mustard Glaze"; "Tofu Ricotta Lasagna"; "Spinach Stuffed Shells"; "Chickless Pot Pie"; "Grits-and-Greens Casserole"; "Chocolate Orange Cake"; "Hawaiian Cake"; "Key Lime Cheesecake with Raspberry Sauce"; and "No-Bake Peanut Butter Pretzel Squares". Look for her helpful "Trisha Tip" cooking hints throughout the book.
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Trisha Yearwood
Whether on stage, television, or as the CEO of her own lifestyle empire, Trisha Yearwood has a habit of exceeding expectations. She’s a platinum-selling, multiple Grammy, CMA and ACM Award winning vocalist with one of the most powerful voices in country music. From the moment her very first single debuted at #1 on the Billboard Country Singles Chart (“She’s In Love With The Boy” in 1991), she has charmed audiences with her warmth, wit and honesty. From selecting the songs that move her, to determining how she was “packaged” by the music industry, she has graciously but firmly stood her ground. Therefore, it’s really no surprise Trisha’s PrizeFighter album cover features the superstar wearing an evening gown, tiara…and boxing gloves!
As a singer, Trisha is a world-class interpreter of emotion. Her many hit songs confirm that. Take for example her version of the song “Broken,” which she performed during The Passion, a live television event that aired in April 2016. Portraying Mary, the Mother of Jesus, she poured her heart out in song. Although it was one of the few times Trisha admitted to nerves before a performance, her riveting delivery stole the show and the song became her highest-charting Adult Contemporary single of her diverse career. The diversity stems from Trisha’s patient pursuit of her passions. Her first cookbook, Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen, began as a family project to honor her father. When the book debuted on the New York Times Bestsellers list in 2008, the amazing reception opened doors that allowed the cookbook to come to life as her own Food Network show, Trisha’s Southern Kitchen. It premiered in 2012, then earned an Emmy Award the following year. It quickly became clear that Trisha was a hit with country AND culinary audiences. No one was more surprised than Trisha, but in looking back, it’s easy to see how everything is related.
Yearwood’s upbringing was one that valued Southern hospitality and kindness over cynicism. Her childhood in Monticello, GA, was classically All-American and she shared a close bond with her parents and sister, Beth. Even when it was time to spread her wings, Trisha always believed that “home is where the heart is.” That guiding principle is apparent in all she does.. “It’s funny. If you asked me when I was five years old, I was so focused on being a singer that I would never have said ‘I want to grow up and have a cooking show, and cookbooks, and furniture, and cookware, and home accessories’” she says with a laugh. “It really just happened when I began doing the things I love. Most of the things in my life that have been successful have been because I had a passion and let it guide me.”
To date, each of her Bestselling cookbooks found the same warm reception as the first (Home Cooking with Trisha Yearwood in 2010; Trisha’s Table in 2015) and Food Network is now airing the eighth season of her show. As if that weren’t enough, her Trisha Yearwood Home Collection encompasses her line of furniture for the whole home, a cookware line called Trisha’s Precious Metals, rugs, four different collections of home accessories, and even her own signature Trisha Yearwood fragrance. Fans can rest assured that if Trisha’s name is attached, she’s at the helm. In fact, the now-common format of cooking with guests wasn’t so common before Trisha’s Southern Kitchen.
“All of the cooking shows I was watching, you would see the chef in the kitchen by themselves. I thought it would be fun to have guests and conversation. I’m less about fancy techniques and more about empowering everyone to ignore the pressure to be perfect. Our show was one of the first to have guests like that, be it my sister, my band members, my girlfriends, or my husband. I know the success of our show has sparked others like that, and I’m proud of that.”
The informal feel has proven to be one of the show’s strengths. “The biggest compliment I get is ‘It doesn’t feel like a cooking show, it’s like you’re just hanging out in the kitchen with a friend.’ Which is true…except there’s good hair and make-up,” she says with a smile.
While fans can tune-in each Saturday for new episodes of her cooking show, hundreds of thousands get to see her onstage on The Garth Brooks World Tour with Trisha Yearwood nearly every weekend. She says the tour has given her more confidence than ever before and is looking forward to tackling a new studio record, a live album, and even a disc of standards in the coming years.
“I look back at the first year of my career, and there are so many things I don’t remember. At some point, I realized that if you don’t live in the moment and enjoy all the things you’re doing, you won’t keep those moments as memories.”
But as millions of fans can attest, whether it’s a song, her family stories and recipes, or her array of items that make the home a more beautiful place, capturing a moment is her specialty.
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