Home Cooking with Trisha Yearwood: Stories and Recipes to Share with Family and Friends: A Cookbook

I appreciated and liked the fast service received. Satisfied with product.

What I like is that the recipes are easy for an everyday cook for everyday meals. Nothing complicated or containing ingredients nobody ever has.

I am giving this book 3 stars as 3 stars means "It's ok". It is ok, but to me that's all it is. I have prepared 4 dishes from this cookbook and I have found all 4 flat, weak, and uninspiring. I am considered a very good cook by friends and family and I find the recipes I have tried quite time consuming to end up so bland. Ms Yearwood bills herself as a Southern Cook and while these dishes are southern fare with southern ingredients they lack southern flavor.I was most excited to try the Pork Medallions as they were The View favorite. They were a bit of work to prepare and honestly not half as good as my own recipe which is much easier.I tried the Vegetable Pie and it was ok. I did believe it had potential so I made it a second time and doctored it up. That time it was very well received and went quickly.Just to let you know, the first time I use a recipe I give the author the benefit of the doubt and follow it to the letter. Not one of the four recipes I have tried so far would I make again without changing them up.I have not yet tried the Hot Corn Dip - which Whoopie loved so much she would not share - I am hoping it will be as good as it was portrayed.I would like to add the quality of this cookbook is excellent. The pictures of the food and the family are lovely. I appreciate some of the notes that Ms Yearwood added and the stories are enjoyable, though not why I puchased the book or necessary for me to have made the purchase.I am aware with the matter of taste there is no right or wrong, so I am only telling you how I feel (and my family & friends). You may not feel the same and I hope if you do purchase this cookbook you find then recipes to your liking. I believe I heard The View has posted a few of the recipes from the show on their website. I wish I had checked that out and tried the recipes before purchasing this book - something you might want to do.

I too, stumbled upon this book after watching "GMA" and "The View" on a very rare day off. After the airing of GMA, I went to their site and downloaded one of the recipes they posted. After seeing Trisha again on The View, I thought, "Let me go ahead and try this." I am a Southern cook at heart and I while I suppress it most days en lieu of a healthier lifestyle, I was so happy to find a cookbook that was pure and honest and didn't have a "Heart Healthy Alternative" section for every recipe.This book has great ideas and they are feasible for all skill levels and income levels.The reason I didn't give it a perfect score is because I would prefer a spiral binding so it could lay flat on a countertop or copy machine (as every dish I've tried brings on requests for the recipe). Wipeable pages would be great to clean up any drips or drops. And while most of the recipes are pretty basic, there are a few that are quite complicated (The Seven Layer Cake calls for 4 pans, a Kitchen-Aide mixer and several bowls. Yikes! That's a once-a-year recipe if I ever saw one!).The Saltine Crackers thing was a HUGE hit and so was the baked spaghetti and asparagus bundles. Reading Garth's Breakfast Bowl made my chest hurt, but I think I'd like to try that one too!If you want to be the Talk of the Town at your next potluck or family reunion, get this book. You'll be glad you did.

I love this food!!!! This is just good, honest, family favorite, made with love, tummy filling, budget friendly, southern comfort food! Simple and perfect. It includes recipes for Breakfast (waffles, pancakes, scrambled egg bowls, a country quiche that's to die for, Hawiian Fruit Salad and apple dumplings, muffins and cinnamon rolls and -shut up- BEIGNETS...omg), Snacks and Appetizers (that will be the hit of any party or football Sunday), Soups and Salads (I'll try to not spoil the surprise, but wait until you see and taste the Chicken Poppy Seed Salad - heaven), Beef and Pork, Chicken and Fish (I love Chicken Piccata and Trish's is the best in the world), Sides, Breads, Cakes and Pies, and Cookies, Candy, etc. FUN SUGGESTION: Buy several copies of this cookbook, give one to each of your six best girl (and/or guy) friends living near you, invite them to be part of your "cooking club," for a once-a-month get-together -- each person making a part (appetizer, main dish, side, side, beverage, dessert) of the meal using only Trish's recipes. After supper pull out Yatzee, Mexican Train, Canasta or Dutch Blitz, or your favorite board game, uncork your favorite bottle of wine, kick your shoes off and enjoy some cherished, soul soothing, tummy busting, maybe a few tears, tons of laughs, girls nights!!!!

I have found some very tasty recipes in this book that I will plan to make again — recipes to add to a repertoire of favorite dishes. Some are high in saturated fat and probably should be eaten only occasionally.

I ordered this book when I was looking for american food cookbooks, especially southern cooking. The book is exactly what I expected. It's not fancy food, nor diet food, it's comfort food.The photos are good, the food looks delicious, I enjoyed reading about her family, and so far I've made the blueberry pancakes (which are definitely a winner for my family), the fresh apple bundt cake (also delicious), and the pork medallions.I must say that I'm not one of those cooks who follow recipes exactly like they're written. When I bake, I follow all the instructions in the recipes, but when I'm not baking, I adapt the recipes to my own taste, or when I don't have an ingredient, or when I don't like some ingredient, so until now I have only good things to say about this book.I have other recipes from the book "waiting" to be cooked, and I have a feeling that I'm also going to like them (as well as my family).One more thing, I bought this allong with The Pioneer Woman Cooks (which I also like very much), and I realized that the recipes are very similar (I only realized then that they both live in Oklahoma), so it seems to me that most of american cookbooks of southern food will be similar and have the same recipes, so brouse well before you order so that you buy the most suitable to your taste.

Excellent be aware this is an American written book ingreadients and measure you have to know

Fantastic cook book a pleasure to read.

This book just makes you want to run to the kitchen and start cooking. I especially love the home baking section, the strawberry cake is just divine. Most of the ingredients will already be in your store cupboard even here in the UK, if not you will get them easily online. There are also lots of innovative ideas such as using jelly in cakes! Easy to follow instructions that just....well work. Best of all it is crammed full of great recipes that offer a lovely alternative to standard British cuisine.I bought this along with Jamie Oliver's 15 minute meals and I know which one I'll be cooking from.

Great, non-fussy recipes. Every one I have tried has worked well. Some ingredients are not freely available in the UK, but a quick search engine query gives you an idea of a UK equivalent that does pretty well.