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  This cookbook was listed in Cooking With Amy's Best Cookbooks of 2009.

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Notes about Recipes in this book

• Roasted parsnips with mint

  • tsusan on October 22, 2009

    prep time doesn't account for chopping parsnips (interminable). Cook time more like 40 in half-sheet pan, but awesome flavor.

• Braised carrots with tarragon and lime

  • tsusan on October 21, 2009

    needed extra wine, steamed away too fast. Texture good. lime-tarragon relieved one-dimensionality of sweet carrots

  • hillsboroks on October 24, 2020

    The lime and tarragon flavors were fun to play with along with the carrots. I had young carrots to work with but unfortunately they were not as sweet as I had expected. The result was a dish that was a bit too tart. Next time I would taste this first before serving and consider adding a bit of sugar or honey if necessary.

• Gran's flank steak

  • tsusan on October 22, 2009

    came out great. bourbon soy marinade has a cool raisiny smell

• Easy shrimp Creole

  • tsusan on October 21, 2009

    used 3 big tomatoes instead of 5, 2 cups was 1 1/2 tomatoes. Tomatoes took much longer than 8 minutes to dissolve, went 15 and still didn't. Lovely thick flavors, good idea letting the shrimp cook off the flame and vinegar!.

  • adrienneyoung on July 24, 2011

    Made as directed. Not impressed. Tasted too much of poblano, not enough of other ingredients. Seemed like a bit of a one-note wonder.

• Radish butter

  • Jane on June 25, 2014

    Very delicious. I used Kerrygold butter as I thought a flavored butter should use good quality. Lovely combination of cool, crunchy radishes with smooth creamy butter and flakes of Maldon sea salt. I had it on bread but the recipe also suggests on celery sticks which I think would be good.

• Pork loin chops with mushroom chutney

  • love2laf on February 03, 2010

    I only made the chutney from this recipe, and not only is it good with pork of any variety, it's tasty on it's own with cheese and crackers.

• Butternut squash soup with rosemary

  • TrishaCP on November 24, 2016

    The flavors of this soup are great- one of the best butternut squash soups that I have made, and only using water! I would reduce the garlic next time though, as it was on the heavy side for me (my husband disagreed). But their instructions for prepping the squash are ridiculous and I didn't follow them- why would anyone want to dice butternut squash, which is notoriously difficult to cut, into 1/2 inch pieces when you are just going to blitz the soup anyway? Just no. Instead I chopped the squash into chunks and roasted at 400 for 40 minutes (until it was soft) and then added the cooked squash.

• Ginger lemonade

  • adrienneyoung on July 24, 2011

    Better the second day: ginger needs time to develop.

• Pickled grapes with rosemary and chiles

  • eselque on July 03, 2011

    Fantastic all around.

• Creamy asparagus soup with grilled asparagus

  • meggan on May 02, 2018

    simple and delicate. I used regular old ham instead of prosciutto.

• Lemon-glazed sweet potatoes

  • chawkins on November 26, 2018

    A much lighter and healthier version of the dish that my sister made every year for the holidays. Flavor-wise it is similar enough to satisfy without the guilt.

  • chawkins on November 27, 2018

    A much lighter and healthier version of the dish my sister made for the holidays every year. Thankfully, the loss of calories in the dish does not mean a loss of flavor.

• Field pea salad with gingered beets and lemon

  • minerva on April 08, 2013

    Came out a little bland at first, we added more mustard, cayenne, and pepper. Be careful not to let the peas (here, black eyed) get too mushy in cooking as we did.

• Cucumber, tomato, and okra salad

  • ingabritt on August 18, 2021

    A. Delicious. Halve the salt. A half batch is perfect for Alex and I. Made a half batch on 8-18-21

• Food52 by Kim Sunee

  The 2010 Piglet Tournament of Cookbooks vs. David Chang's Momofuku

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• Huffington Post

  This cookbook feels like dropping a back porch in Charleston into the middle of your living room. Doesn't that sound like fun? Seriously, it is.

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• Boston Globe by T. Susan Chang

  Susie finds the Lee Brothers new book "picks up the pieces (okra, collards, shrimp, bourbon) and puts them back together in astutely reimagined ways."

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