Southern Living’s No Taste Like Home + Alabama White Sauce & a Giveaway!
From time to time I get offers from publishers to review cookbooks, and more often than not, I pass them up. Don’t get me wrong – I LOVE cookbooks. However, there are only so many cookbooks one girl can handle! But there are some that I simply cannot refuse, and that’s the category this new Southern Living cookbook falls in.
Since childhood I’ve been a big fan of Southern Living magazine. I even created a video for Magazines.com explaining exactly what I love about it so much. Suffice it to say, they are a trusted source for me when it comes to cooking (amongst other things).
So when I got the email about Southern Living No Taste Like Home, it was an easy “yes!”. Great decision on my part, as I’m really enjoying diving into this cookbook. Broken into sections of the various regions of the south, it’s more than just recipes – you feel like you learn a little about each place, it’s history, it’s residents, and of course, it’s food.
I’ve got something marked to try from every region – Crab Cake Hushpuppies and Remoulade from Cajun Country; Tex Mex Grilled Beef with Chipotle-Lime Cream from Big Bold Texas; Shrimp and Grits from The Piedmont & the Mountains; Loretta Lynn’s Chicken and Dumplings from The Bluegrass, Bourbon & Barbecue Trail; and Georgia Peach Deviled Eggs from the Coastal South.
And then there is the one recipe that I was dying to try from the moment I saw it….Alabama White Sauce. Or as they call it in this book, Alabama White Barbecue Sauce. I leave out the word barbecue because honestly, I can slather this stuff on so many things, I don’t want to limit your imagination. Oddly, I don’t like mayonnaise, and yet, I love this sauce that is mayonnaise based. Perfect for smoked chicken, but equally as amazing with fried okra, as our local Smoke Et Al food truck has proven in recent years.
Alabama White Barbecue Sauce
Makes 1 3/4 cups. Recipe from Southern Living: No Taste Like Home cookbook
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups mayonnaise
1/4 cup white wine vinegar
1 garlic clove
1 Tbsp coarse, ground black pepper
1 Tbsp spicy brown mustard
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp table salt
2 tsp horseradish
Directions:
Stir together all ingredients until well blended. Refrigerate in an airtight container for up to 1 week.
Now some good news for you. I’ve got an extra cookbook to give away!
To enter, all you have to do is this:
~Contest Closed~
Congratulations to the winner!
#21 Susan Williams
Mandatory
1. Leave a comment telling me the dish that comes to mind when you hear “No taste like home”. It could be something your grandmother made, something your hometown is famous for, or maybe something that is a more recent discovery. Spill!
Optional
For up to 2 additional entries, you can do either or both of the following. Note: You must leave a separate comment for each optional entry.
2. Follow me on Twitter (@betheats) and tweet “Win a copy of Southern Living’s No Taste Like Home cookbook from @betheats! http://bit.ly/1c7mQP1” then leave a comment telling me you’ve done so.
3. Like Eat.Drink.Smile. on Facebook and come back and tell me you did so (or just tell me you already do if that’s the case!)
Contest ends on Thursday, October 24th at 11 a.m. CDT. Once the winner is chosen, I’ll make contact via email and post the name here on the blog. If they don’t respond within 48 hours, I’ll be forced to choose another, so be sure to check your email!
Disclosure: I received one free review copy of Southern Living No Taste Like Home: A Celebration of Regional Southern Cooking and Hometown Flavor cookbook and another to host this giveaway.
No Taste Like Home to me reminds me of my grandmother’s meatloaf. It was delicious!
I love southern cooking so I am very excited to check out the new cookbook!
I already follow you on Facebook :)
I love white barbeque sauce! Now I may have to try making it myself. As for No Taste Like Home, the dish that comes to mind is my mother’s Cheese Pudding. It is sort of a cross between a souffle and a bread pudding and was always one of my favorites growing up. I love it and have never had anything quite like it anywhere else.
Both meals that come to mind instantly are my mom’s vegetable soup and my grandmother’s meatloaf. I will likely spend much of my adulthood trying to replicate them! Both homey and wonderful and delightfully simple.
Already a Facebook follower!
I think of my Mom’s Roast Beef and Yorkshire pudding. So good and I’m to lazy to make it myself.
I follow you on Facebook and would love this cookbook!
I liked your Facebook page.
My grandmother made awesome cornbread served with stewed potatoes and pinto beans. Everyone looked forward to coming in from the farm for lunch and dinner.
I am reminded of one of our favorite family recipes, which is stuffed cabbage. (I don’t recall the polish name for it!) but it such a tradition in all of my family. I love learning about new foods/traditions, especially now that I have chosen the south as my home!
P.S. – I already follow you on Facebook as well :)
YUM! Heard good things about white bbq sauce! Thanks for sharing the recipe! When I hear “No Taste Like Home,” I think of one thing: the asparagus casserole that my family fixes for all holidays & birthdays! It’s handed down 3 generations, so far, and I’ve got my in-laws in CA loving it, as well as college friends who have visited my house for the holidays over the years! That recipe has made its way into many different families, over the years, in many different states!
Just tweeted the blurb, too!! :)
I already follow you on Facebook, too!
When I hear ” No taste like home”, it reminds me of my grandmother’s mac and cheese! Nothing taste better!
I tweeted and follow you on twitter—
https://twitter.com/HeatherLynn626/status/392477352472494080.
My mother in laws chocolate gravy and biscuits!
I follow you on Facebook!
I think of Sunday Roast Beef and Gravy.
I follow you on Facebook and the recipe that comes to mind us my Mom’s Corn Pudding.
I think of my husband’s smoked Boston butt/pork shoulder! We use a homemade rub that we call Smack Your Mama’s Butt Rub, and he smokes it all. day. long, periodically spritzing it with apple juice, to develop the bark.
We love barbecue, and maybe it’s just the TLC he puts into his, but, dang, it’s the best! We also use a local (from the Kingston Springs/White Bluff area) barbecue sauce, called Bill’s, that is mighty fine! While I’m a firm believer in “homemade is best”, Bill’s is a close 2nd, and super convenient.
And girl, I am a DIE HARD Southern Living Lover. My kitchen is filled with their yearly cookbooks: 26 years worth!
I follow you on Twitter.
My mom’s chow-chow. Made about 8 qts this summer. It goes great with just about anything, but I love it with field peas.
Could I bribe you with a small jar?
And, of course, I’ve liked you on Facebook.
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Is it sad that the first thing I think of when I see No Taste Like Home is J.Alexander’s Mac n Cheese? :)
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Bagels from NY – I miss them.
My grandmother’s fried chicken….YUM!
I follow you on Twitter and tweeted!
I already like you on Facebook.
When I hear “No Taste Like Home”, I think of warm, fluffy biscuits, country ham, and homemade banana pudding. Yum!
When I hear No Taste Like Home it makes me think of my Grandma Tiny’s Fried Chicken and mashed potatoes it was always the best thing on Sunday dinner.
I like you on Facebook!!
I tweeted about the Giveaway!!
Before moving away from Nashville, my husband and I developed a slight addiction to Arnold’s, so that’s what comes to mind for me!! Also, I tweeted, and I already like you on FB!
Homemade southern biscuits and jam come to mind!
I follow you on FB!
For me, home tastes like my MawMaw’s cornbread dressing on Thanksgiving!
I tweeted about the giveaway! https://twitter.com/jlew8/status/392751632867287040
I can’t believe I hadn’t already liked your Facebook page, but I do now! So great seeing you again last week in Nashville. Come visit me and the Epting crew anytime :)
Nothing says home like the best Mac and Cheese.
Banana pudding comes to mind!
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As grandmother/southern cooking goes…it was her fried chicken. Took her all day to make it, but the kitchen smelled so warm and just that essential “grandmother” comforting smell, that to this day, it’s hard for me to eat fried chicken because they just don’t compare.
And I am a FB fan!!
That phrase reminds me of my grandmother’s fried chicken as well as her homemade pizza. Completely opposite of each other, but both are meals that my grandmother was known for!
I also tweeted the giveaway!
https://twitter.com/jarslikejam/status/393024080145702912
Thank you so much for the chance to win!
It reminds me of my grandmas meatballs :)
My mom makes awesome Shepherds Pie. Now i’m hungry!…
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