My Mother's Southern Desserts: More than 200 Treasured Family Recipes for Holiday and Everyday Celebrations
Author: Martha Pearl Villas
Following the success of their first book together, A Mothers' Southern Kitchen, Jim and his mother, Martha Pearl, offer 200 recipes for scrumptious Southern treats. There are sweets for any holiday or special event -- Christmas, church suppers, birthdays, weddings, Valentine's Day, bridge luncheons, cocktail parties -- even the Kentucky Derby! The recipes are utterly delightful from their titles to their delectable tastes and textures -- try Boozy Mud Pie, Pistachio Snowballs, Coconut Igloos, Trump Toffee Cookies, Caramel Chewies, Satan Chocolate Pound Cake with Fudge Frosting, Crunchy Peanut Butter Ice Cream, or Blueberry Flummery.
Jim and Martha Pearl have the perfect treat for any occasion. Planning a New Year's Parry? Why not bring Bourbon Cream Mold with Shaved Chocolate? Going to a cookout? Bake a Banana Split Pie. Need a "friend-ship gift"? Give that special someone Aunt Ella's Buttermilk Gingerbread. Whether you're attending a Mother's Day brunch (Sunshine Chiffon Cake with Orange Butter Frosting) or a Thanksgiving dinner (Cajun Sweet Potato Pecan Pie), or visiting a sick relative (Sweet Maa's "Get Well" Baked Custard), you'll find that perfect treat right here. In each of these recipes, Jim and Martha Pearl prove that they sure know how to enjoy dessert down South!
Publishers Weekly
North Carolina native, food writer and cookbook author (My Mother's Southern Kitchen; Recipes from the Great American Stewpot; etc.) Villas invites his mother, Martha Pearl Villas, to join him in presenting this winsome repertoire of Southern desserts. Organized by the calendar year and its fetes (e.g., Christmas, Kentucky Day Derby, birthdays, picnics or brunch) and laced with his mother's words of culinary wisdom, this family recipe collection ranges from Secession Brown Betty to Horse Pear Tart. Diet- and cholesterol-conscious readers beware: recipes often call for generous quantities of butter, Crisco, sugar, eggs and cream. Accompanying anecdotes defer to Martha Pearl's authoritative voice (e.g., the Pineapple Dessert Souffle is "perfect for fragile digestive systems") and trace the quirky personal histories of Cuddin' Berta's Georgia Kiss Pudding or The Delta Queen's Pralines as well as the antecedents of Blueberry Flummery, Huguenot Torte with chopped apples, pecans, cream and sherry, and chilled Pussycat Syllabub, melding lemon juice, wine and half-and-half. Ingredients are supermarket accessible and instructions are straightforward, without references to food processors or standing mixers. Novices who require hand-holding will not get it from the authors, who do not elaborate on kitchen setup, equipment or techniques. Villas's chatty prose and the unrepentantly caloric delectables make this a hard-to-resist collection. Photos not seen by PW. (Oct.)
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Everyday Asian: Asian Flavors + Simple Techniques = 120 Mouth-Watering Recipes
Author: Patricia Yeo
Patricia Yeo is one of the most acclaimed of the new crop of bright young chefs in America-she specializes in world food, introducing Asian flavors, California freshness and French technique to her restaurant menus, including the offerings at the three-star A/Z in Manhattan. With Everyday Asian, Yeo leaves restaurant technique behind and focuses on packing flavor into dishes for weekday meals and simple home entertaining. The taste of the Pacific Rim is still the biggest trend in food today, and Yeo is the ideal expert to translate it for home cooks. Everyday Asian includes over one hundred recipes with far eastern, Indian and southeast Asian accents, including:
--Chinese chicken salad with pickled vegetables
--Seared tuna and three-bean salad
--Toasted Walnut, Cheese and Chili Shortbread
--Smoky eggplant and yogurt puree
--Gingered Pineapple Glaze for Buffalo wings
--Roasted five-spice chicken
--Thai pork curry
--Stir-fried beef with black beans
--Baked coconut rice pudding
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