Down Home with the Neelys: A Southern Family Cookbook by Gina Neely and Patrick Neely

  • Neely's barbecue seasoning

    from Down Home with the Neelys: A Southern Family Cookbook Down Home with the Neelys by Gina Neely and Patrick Neely

    • Categories: Spice / herb blends & rubs; American; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: paprika; onion powder
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  • Five bean picnic salad

    • LemonVerbena on July 07, 2023

      The online reviews for this salad were excellent, however when I made it, it was very bland, even after adding more lemon and salt. The dressing itself tasted good before adding it to the beans. Maybe my beans were particularly bland, but I felt this salad needed a lot more oomph.

  • Champagne vinaigrette

    • LemonVerbena on July 07, 2023

      Dressing is excellent but when I used it for the 5 bean salad recipe I really could not taste it.

  • Smoky new potatoes and green beans

    • msmmlee on January 09, 2021

      I cooked this recipe with modifications this morning and it came out really good. I will make it again. Instead of ham hocks, I cut 5 strips of bacon into small pieces and cooked them first, added in the green beans (3 cans drained and rinsed), then I added a half stick of butter before adding the potatoes (I had 4 red potatoes but could have had another one) and the "Smash Seasoning" (which also has a recipe in this book). I was uncomfortable adding as much sugar as the recipe calls for but I went ahead and did it because I never like how my own green beans come out. I'm glad I added it because it made all the difference. I didn't add in all of the "Smash Seasoning" as that recipe made because I felt like it might be too much for the amount of green beans and potatoes I had. I left about a tablespoon of the mixture out and the meal was still very tasty. One thing... the recipe list black pepper but doesn't say how much to add so I added 1 teaspoon and added more salt to taste.

  • Black-eyed peas with bacon and pork

    • swiand on September 17, 2025

      Made this from the website: https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/patrick-and-gina-neely/black-eyed-peas-with-bacon-and-pork-recipe-1920605. Very good.

  • Calley's sweet potato pie

    • CuisineQueen874 on December 23, 2019

      This is my go to recipe for sweet potato pie.

    • CuisineQueen874 on December 31, 2025

      This is still my go to sweet potato pie recipe!!

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  • ISBN 10 0307269949
  • ISBN 13 9780307269942
  • Published May 12 2009
  • Format Hardcover
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Knopf
  • Imprint Alfred A. Knopf

Publishers Text

Meet the Neelys: Pat and Gina, husband-and-wife team, hosts of their own television show, and proprietors of the celebrated Memphis and Nashville eateries, Neely's Bar-B-Que.

The Neelys' down-home approach to cooking has earned them the highest accolades from coast to coast. It has also won them millions of viewers on the Food Network. Simply put, the Neelys are all about good food and good times. In this, their eagerly awaited debut cookbook, the Neelys share the delicious food they have been cooking up for years both at home and in their restaurants.

Pat and Gina hail from families with a boundless love of cooking and bedrock traditions of sharing meals. At the Neelys', mealtime is family time, and that means no stinting on "the sauce." Indeed, that's one of the Neely secrets: the liberal application of barbeque sauce to almost anything - spaghetti, nachos, salad, you name it. Of course, there are other secrets as well, and you will find them all in the pages of Down Home with the Neelys, along with more than 120 mouthwatering recipes.

Here are the tried-and-true southern recipes that have been passed down from one Neely generation to the next, including many of their signature dishes, such as Barbeque Deviled Eggs, Florida Coast Pickled Shrimp, Pat's Wings of Fire, Gina's Collard Greens, Grandma Jean's Potato Salad, Nana's Southern Gumbo, Memphis-sized Pulled Pork Sandwiches with Slaw, Get Yo' Man Chicken, and Sock-It-to-Me Cake. Certainly, no self-respecting southerner would dream of offering a meal to a guest without a proper drink, so Pat and Gina have included some of their favorite libations here, too.

The Neelys work, laugh, love, and play harder than any family you'll ever meet. Their love for good food is infectious, and in Down Home with the Neelys, they bring their heavenly inspired cooking down to earth for all to share.

Patrick and Gina Neely are owners of Neely's Bar-B-Que in Memphis and Nashville and hosts of the Food Network series Down Home with the Neelys. They have been married since 1994 and live in Memphis with their two daughters (and scores of other kin nearby).

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