Overview
This fun cookbook is full of charming cooking tips and advice for catching your man’s heart—through his stomach. The belly-filling recipes will satisfy the hardest working ranch hands, cowboys, farmers, and western-loving city folks. The recipes are organized into meals from the first date and “Hand Holdin’ in the Parlor” to when it’s time for “Impressin’ the In-laws.”
The shopping list for a well-stocked western pantry will set you up for serving tasty grinds such as Sweet Potato Pancakes, All-Day Red Beans, Smothered Yardbird, Cowboy Cottage Pie, and Stewed Fruit with Sugar Dumplings when that dinner bell rings.
Kathy Lynn Wills spends her time among cattle and dogs in the dairy and rural ranchlands of Northern California, writing, cooking, and raising crops. Her blog, whatjameshadfordinner.blogspot.com, reports on her travels and, yes, nightly dinners on the farm.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781423641339 |
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| Publisher: | Smith, Gibbs Publisher |
| Publication date: | 02/03/2015 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 112 |
| File size: | 5 MB |
About the Author
Linda Bark'karie (illustrations throughout the recipes) is a western artist who specializes in black and white, primarily graphite. She lives in Pleasanton, California.
Linda K. Gage (illustrations on cover and chapter openings) is an illustrator and fine artist who works in pen and ink, pencil, watercolor, and pastel. She lives in Jordan Valley, Oregon.
Kathy Lynn Wills is a freelance writer specializing in cowboy culture and cooking. She is a regular contributor to both Cowboy and Cowboys and Indians magazines. In addition, she is the proprietor of the Cowboy Country General Store Catalogue. She lives in Los Angeles.
Read an Excerpt
Though some cowhands lament they were "born a hundred years too late," for most women, our modern liberation along with a host of time-saving appliances, brought welcome relief from seemingly endless household chores. I stir up cakes and create new recipes not because it is traditional women's work (in fact, many of the great western cooks from ranch wagons to fifty-acre homesteads were are are men), but because I enjoy it. . . .
Sample recipes:
Hay and Straw
1 stick (8 tablespoons butter)
1/2 onion chopped fine
1 10-ounce package frozen peas
1/2 pound ham, chopped
1 1/2 cups heavy cream
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons black pepper
1/2 to 3/4 cup Parmesan cheese (to taste)
1/2 pound spinach fettucine noodles
1/2 pound fettucine noodles
1. Put a large pot of water on to boil.
2. To make the cream sauce, in a large skillet melt 1/2 stick of butter and saute onions over medium heat until transparent.
3. Turn heat to high and add frozen peas. Cook 3 minutes, stirring often.
4. Add ham and cook, stirring, about 2 minutes, until warmed through and edges start to crisp.
5. Add 1 cup of cream to skillet and cook until thickened, season to taste with salt and pepper. Set aside.
6. When water boils, cook each pasta as described on package. The spinach pasta may take less time than the regular.
7. When pasta is just tender, drain in sink.
8. In the stock pot, melt 1/2 stick butter; stir in 1/2 cup of cream. When just mixed, add drained pasta and toss over medium heat. Add the cream sauce and Parmesan cheese, re-season with salt and pepper if needed, toss until well coated, and serve.
Broiled Grapefruit
2 to 3 grapefruit (1/2 per person)
2 to 3tablespoons butter each, melted
4 to 6 tablespoons brown sugar
1. Preheat oven to broil.
2. Cut grapefruit in half around it's girth. With a sharp knife, trace the outline of the fruit to loosen segments.
3. Brush each top with approximately 1/2 tablespoon butter.
4. Sprinkle each with a tablespoon of brown sugar.
5. Broil for 2 to 3 minutes, until sugar melts and bubbles on top.
Table of Contents
Contents
Ring the Dinner Bell 5
A Calico's Shopping Guide 6
Good Morning Dear: Starting Off Right
Breakfast in "A Canyon, Colorado Diner" 8
Waiting Together For The Thaw 13
He Feeds, I Cook 17
On The Job Before Daylight 22
Hungry By Noon: Western Dinners and Lunchtime Treats
A Saddlebag Secret 28
The Preacher Comes to Call 33
Hand Holding In The Parlour 39
Before The Barn Dance 44
Evening Shadows: Quiet Suppers at Home
Simple Supper 'Neath The Harvest Moon 50
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not 55
Ward Off Winter's Chill 60
Home Fires 66
Thinking Of You 70
Balcony Scene 75
Home On The Range 80
Red Letter Days: Memories To Share
A First Supper For Two 86
Impressing Your In-Laws 90
The Double Heart Brand 97
Won't You Be Mine? 103
Index 110
The Authors and Artists 112