Paula Deen: It Ain't All about the Cookin' by Paula Deen

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  • Chocolate-dippy or sugarcoated doughnuts

    from Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin' Paula Deen by Paula Deen and Sherry Suib Cohen

    • Categories: Frostings & fillings; Breakfast / brunch; American South
    • Ingredients: chocolate; butter; sugar; evaporated milk; vanilla extract; doughnuts
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  • Courage chili

    from Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin' Paula Deen by Paula Deen and Sherry Suib Cohen

    • Categories: Chili; Main course; Mexican
    • Ingredients: ground beef; onions; garlic powder; California chili powder; dried oregano; French onion soup; all-purpose flour; Tabasco sauce; canned tomatoes; kidney beans; corn chips; cheddar cheese
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  • Mississippi mud cake

    from Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin' Paula Deen by Paula Deen and Sherry Suib Cohen

    • Categories: Cakes, large; Dessert; American South
    • Ingredients: sugar; all-purpose flour; butter; vegetable oil; cocoa powder; eggs; baking soda; buttermilk; vanilla extract; marshmallows; pecans; powdered sugar
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  • Baked Savannah Alaska

    from Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin' Paula Deen by Paula Deen and Sherry Suib Cohen

    • Categories: Cakes, large; Dessert; American South
    • Ingredients: egg whites; sugar
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  • My best ham salad sandwich

    from Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin' Paula Deen by Paula Deen and Sherry Suib Cohen

    • Categories: Sandwiches & burgers; Lunch; American South
    • Ingredients: ham; celery; onions; mustard; eggs; pickle relish; sandwich bread
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  • Beef stroganoff

    from Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin' Paula Deen by Paula Deen and Sherry Suib Cohen

    • Categories: Stews & one-pot meals; Main course
    • Ingredients: beef round steaks; all-purpose flour; butter; onions; mushrooms; cream of mushroom soup; beef broth; sour cream; dried egg noodles
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  • House seasoning

    from Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin' Paula Deen by Paula Deen and Sherry Suib Cohen

    • Categories: Spice / herb blends & rubs
    • Ingredients: salt; pepper; garlic powder
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  • Grandmomma's fried and steamed chicken

    from Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin' Paula Deen by Paula Deen and Sherry Suib Cohen

    • Categories: Main course; American South
    • Ingredients: chicken; all-purpose flour; eggs; vegetable oil; garlic powder
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  • Biscuits

    from Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin' Paula Deen by Paula Deen and Sherry Suib Cohen

    • Categories: Bread & rolls, savory; American South
    • Ingredients: all-purpose flour; vegetable shortening; milk; butter
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  • Sawmill gravy

    from Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin' Paula Deen by Paula Deen and Sherry Suib Cohen

    • Categories: Sauces, general; American South
    • Ingredients: sausage meat; bacon; onions; garlic; all-purpose flour; butter; half and half cream
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  • Shaggy man split pea soup

    from Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin' Paula Deen by Paula Deen and Sherry Suib Cohen

    • Categories: Soups; Suppers; American South
    • Ingredients: butter; bacon; onions; celery; carrots; chicken broth; sausages; split peas; instant mashed potatoes
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  • Georgia cracker salad

    from Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin' Paula Deen by Paula Deen and Sherry Suib Cohen

    • Categories: Salads; Main course; Picnics & outdoors; American South
    • Ingredients: shrimp; crackers; mayonnaise; tomatoes; onions; eggs; lettuce; pimientos; cucumbers
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  • Mrs. Grover's banana nut delight cake

    from Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin' Paula Deen by Paula Deen and Sherry Suib Cohen

    • Categories: Cakes, large; Dessert; American South
    • Ingredients: cake flour; sugar; ground cinnamon; vegetable shortening; buttermilk; bananas; eggs; cream cheese; butter; pecans; powdered sugar
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  • The best damn blueberry muffin you'll ever eat

    from Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin' Paula Deen by Paula Deen and Sherry Suib Cohen

    • Categories: Cakes, small; Breakfast / brunch; Dessert; Snacks; American South
    • Ingredients: all-purpose flour; sugar; butter; eggs; milk; blueberries
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  • Mrs. Dull's tomato aspic funeral food dish

    from Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin' Paula Deen by Paula Deen and Sherry Suib Cohen

    • Categories: American South
    • Ingredients: canned tomatoes; celery; olives; vinegar; onions; ground cayenne pepper; gelatin
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  • Pan fried corn

    from Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin' Paula Deen by Paula Deen and Sherry Suib Cohen

    • Categories: Quick / easy; Side dish; American South
    • Ingredients: corn; butter; bacon
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  • Uncle Bubba's crab and shrimp au gratin

    from Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin' Paula Deen by Paula Deen and Sherry Suib Cohen

    • Categories: Stews & one-pot meals; Main course; American South
    • Ingredients: all-purpose flour; milk; Cheez Whiz; Tabasco sauce; shrimp and crab boil liquid concentrate; crabmeat; cheddar cheese
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  • ISBN 10 0743568842
  • ISBN 13 9780743568845
  • Published Apr 03 2007
  • Format Misc. format
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Imprint Simon & Schuster Audio

Publishers Text

Do you know the real Paula Deen? You may think you know the butter-loving, finger-licking, joke-cracking queen of melt-in-your-mouth Southern cuisine. You may have even visited The Lady & Sons to taste for yourself the down-home delicacies that made her famous and even heard some version of her Cinderella story (a single mom with two teenage sons started a brown-bag lunch business with $200 and wound up with a thriving restaurant, a fairy-tale second marriage, and wildly popular television shows), but you have never heard the intimate details of her often bumpy road to fame and fortune.

Courageously honest, downright inspiring, and just a little bit saucy, Paula shares the highs and lows of her life in the inimitable charming and irreverent style that you know from her television shows and personal appearances. She talks about long childhood summers spent in a bathing suit and roller skates and hard years living in the back of her father's gas station; a buzzing high school social life of sleepovers, parties, cheerleading, and boys; and a difficult marriage. The death of her beloved parents precipitated a debilitating agoraphobia that crippled her for years. But even when the going got tough, Paula never lost the good grace and sense of humor that would eventually help carry her to success and stardom. Of course, you can't get by on charm alone: as Paula has learned, you need plenty of willpower, hard work, and, above all, the love and support of family and friends to finance, sustain, and run a successful restaurant.

In each chapter, Paula shares new recipes: there's serious comfort food like her momma's Chocolate-Dippy Doughnuts, Courage Chili for when you know life's going to get tough, Sexy Oxtails for seducing that special someone, and the recipe for her new mother-in-law's Banana Nut Delight Cake that Paula finally got just right. And you'll love the never-before-seen photos of her family.

In this memoir, Paula Deen speaks as frankly and intimately as few women in the public eye have ever dared. Whether she's telling tales of good times or bad, her story is proof that the old-fashioned American dream is alive and kicking, and there still is such a thing as a real-life happy ending.



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