Does This Taste Funny?: Recipes Our Family Loves by Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee Colbert

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    • Categories: Cookies, biscuits & crackers; Canapés / hors d'oeuvre; Christmas; Cooking ahead; Entertaining & parties; American South; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: margarine; extra-sharp cheddar cheese; self-rising flour; ground cayenne pepper; egg whites; pecans
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  • Cayenne pepper-pimento cheese spread

    • ashley_84p4kf on April 12, 2026

      Do you want cheese that tastes like mayonnaise? Then this is for you. Doubling the spices helps, but this was still a BIG pass from me.

  • Cowboy caviar

    • gamulholland on September 02, 2025

      Very tasty, disappeared quickly serves with tortilla chips. I was asked to tone down the balsalmic vinegar a little next time, otherwise everyone loved it.

  • Courgette "madeleines"

    • lean1 on September 24, 2025

      made these as muffins. Really easy just a long cooling time in the frig before baking.

    • crandall57 on February 14, 2026

      We really enjoyed these muffins. I used sheep's milk ricotta in place of the creme fraiche and Authentic foods gluten flour in place of the all-purpose flour.

  • Lemon-chicken-orzo soup

  • Spicy honey-lemon chicken thighs

    • gamulholland on October 12, 2025

      My husband made this and it was such a hit with our book club that he’s making it again tomorrow for the family. We didn’t have hot honey, so red pepper flakes in honey did the trick. Anyway, flavorful and really good— definitely a keeper.

  • Mary's potato salad

  • Scalloped potatoes

    • Dollhouse_Cuisine on April 21, 2025

      Made for Easter dinner. So good, it was entirely gobbled up. This will now be our go-to for scalloped potatoes.

  • Wild rice with cranberries and toasted almonds

    • KCKB on February 17, 2025

      A simple, straightforward and tasty recipe. I added a little parsley for color.

  • Mrsl McGee's bourbon chocolate pecan pie

    • MRGC.collection on May 02, 2026

      Substituted for 1 cup sugar: used ½ c sugar, ¼ c maple sugar, ¼ c molasses. Hoping for moderate sweetness. Reviews to come.

  • Cara's almond-basil cookies

    • Devons on November 03, 2024

      Very good; tried them out as a candidate for Christmas cookie trays this year. A bit different, a tad herbal as you might imagine. I may have over-processed the basil with the sugar, but the cookies were a nice very pale green color. Used about 12 or so basil leaves (not 15). Made the following changes: 1. Confectioner's sugar - sifted it before rolling balls 2. Each dough ball was 1/2 ounce 3. Baked cookies for 17+ min and they were still chewy

  • Granola

    • KCKB on October 19, 2024

      A simple and delicious granola recipe. It is adaptable, as described in the headnote - case in point, I had most of the ingredients on hand but was a little short on the quantity of dried cranberries, so I rounded it out with dried blueberries and cherries. Might try adding flax, millet, chia seeds, etc. in the future. Also, I like that this recipe doesn’t include shredded coconut. (Although those who enjoy it can certainly add it!)

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  • ISBN 10 1250859999
  • ISBN 13 9781250859990
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  • Published Sep 17 2024
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 336
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Celadon Books

Publishers Text

Stephen and Evie Colbert invite you to pull up a chair as they share their favorite recipes from family and friends and offer a glimpse of food and fun in their South Carolina home.

“Hopefully reading this book and cooking these recipes will feel like hanging out with us at home. We basically live in the kitchen anyway.” ?Evie and Stephen Colbert

As Evie and Stephen explain it, Does This Taste Funny? had its beginnings in the Covid lockdown. “We were all stuck together and couldn’t go out, so we cooked. We had all three kids back under one roof for the first time in a long time, and we had dinner each night as a family. Cooking together became a major source of entertainment.”

Now, the Colberts invite us into their kitchen and around their dining room table. Sharing Stephen and Evie’s favorite recipes, as well as those of their family and friends, this book offers everything from Party Food (called “party food” because “appetizers” implies something to follow when we all know that, often, this is the only course), to Seafood, to Poultry and Meat (“Evie and I have different relationships to meat. I like it. Evie can take it or leave it, and mostly she leaves it.”), to Desserts (“This is one of the largest sections of the book. Evie always reminds me that desserts are a great way to postpone clearing up.”), to Drinks (“I love cocktail hour. It feels like a reward for having gone so long without a cocktail”), all tied together with playful dialogue between Stephen and Evie and gorgeous shots of their food, family, and home.

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