Reviews for Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook

The average rating for Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-03-24 00:00:00 Brian Wright This is a great read of southern traditions, stories, and recipes. Most of the food is rather traditional, as evidenced by my choice of recipe sampling including deviled eggs and three bean salad, a church potluck/pitch-in/covered-dish staple! In this cookbook, everything has a clever name. Deviled eggs are actually "Sold My Soul to the Devil-ed Eggs." Like any good southern cookbook, there are also cocktails. Wow, are there cocktails. Pull down the mailbox door, sit on your porch, and drink in the humid afternoon cocktails. I gave in and made cantaloupe daiquiris since cantaloupe are in season. The element I liked best in this cookbook is its emphasis on local ingredients that may not be available outside of the south - okra, black-eyed peas, lady peas, crawfish, etc. Right now, tomatoes are going crazy so I made the tomato soup recipe. Well kind of. I started with it, added extra canned tomatoes and some cream and left out the oregano. I figure it kind of still counts. The dessert section was great, a bunch of simple traditional southern treats. I made the boiled vanilla custard, I just don't have a picture to show for it. I have marked others to try. Recommended, for southerners and for people who wish they were!

Review # 2 was written on 2008-06-06 00:00:00 Robert Gilbert This book is fantastic! Martha Hall Foose's stories are marvelous, and the recipes are simply out of this world. If you have a chance to hear her speak or to attend one of her demos, do it! Plenty of yummy food and hilarious stories. I've had her Blue Cheese Pecan Bread, her Catfish in a Paper Bag, her Deep Shade Blueberry Cobbler with Homemade Buttermilk Peach Ice Cream (holy cow!), and her Hoppin' John. My personal favorite was the Sunflower Squash -- sorta like a squash flavored hushpuppy. If you grew up with good Southern cooking, these recipes will make you homesick. If you DIDN'T grow up with good Southern cooking, it'll let you know what you missed!