In "My Cousin Vinny," shot in my hometown of Monticello, Georgia, Joe Pesci’s character asks a witness if he uses instant grits. I add smoked Gouda to give it an even deeper, richer taste, but use whatever cheeses you love for these dressed-up grits. This grits dish might be the trifecta, covering all the best flavors of the South. Pimento Cheese & Bacon GritsĮvery now and then I’ll come up with a recipe that combines all the things I love into one pan. The book can be purchased at local bookstores and on Amazon. These recipes were reprinted with permission from "Trisha’s Kitchen," Mariner Books, 2021. "I love that you can get whatever kind of food you want in this town, from our famous meat and three diners to our 5-star, fancy tablecloth restaurants. "Every city that gets big in a hurry like we have goes through its own growing pains, but one of the best things to come out of that growth is the amount of great new restaurants that have made Nashville home," she said. The performer, who's lived in Nashville since 1985, finds plenty of food inspiration in her growing city. "I’m always tasting something I want to 'Trisha-fy' or waking up in the middle of the night with one of those, 'What if I mixed this with that?' ideas," she said. Have extra bacon? Try 6 of Southern Kitchen's best bacon-studded recipes Yearwood says she's not likely to stop writing cookbooks any time soon, pandemic or not. "I love every single recipe in the book and am very happy with how well it turned out." "It was nice to be able to really just work on the book with no other distractions," she said. The country music star wrote "Trisha’s Kitchen" during the first year of the pandemic when there was nothing but time for writing, testing, tasting and tweaking each recipe, she said. Accessible food that you can make at home for your own family, even if you’re not a trained chef."įor Yearwood, who describes her books as deeply personal, there's no ghostwriter working behind the scenes. "They sparked my love of cooking," she said. "Our goal was to get more vegetables into their lives, which we did, but we came up with so many tasty recipes, we had the girls actually asking for veggie night," Yearwood explains in her cookbook.ĭishes like Yearwood's grilled tomato and pepper gazpacho seem like chef-worthy creations, but she insists she's only a home cook who learned from her parents how to take chances in the kitchen. It isn't all bacon, of course, with an entire chapter focused on the types of vegetarian dishes Yearwood and Brooks served on "veggie night" when their daughters Taylor, August and Allie were younger. Her book, filled with warm and comforting Southern mains, sides, desserts and more, includes recipes for bacon caramel-drizzled sticky buns, twice-baked maple-bacon sweet potatoes and bacon onion jam. "I mean, I wrote a love letter to bacon in my latest cookbook, so I guess you could say it is its own food group at our house," Yearwood said. To be fair, that includes the table of contents and index, but it's safe to say the Nashville-based country star, who is also married to Garth Brooks, is a fan. Yearwood's latest cookbook, "Trisha's Kitchen: Easy Comfort Food for Friends and Family," mentions bacon nearly 160 times. "Even if they are a bit skeptical when they think about putting brownies with bacon and potato chips, I know once they take a bite, I’ll have a convert," she said. Trisha Yearwood has yet to meet a person whose interest wasn't piqued by her bacon-potato chip brownies.
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