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Raised in South Georgia’s farm country, cookbook author, Gena Knox has a long history with the land and Southern cooking. Her newly released cookbook, Southern My Way: Simple Recipes, Fresh Flavor, features more than 250 pages of seasonal recipes (100+ recipes), streamlined for busy lives and accompanied by full-color photographs that portray a lifelong love affair with Southern food and culture. Gena shares her modern take on the region’s culinary specialties.
Says Gena,
“I want home cooks to read my book and feel as though they shared the same culinary experiences that I did as a child, like riding through the fields to check on crops with my father or making homemade biscuits alongside my mother in the kitchen.”
I love that!
Sounds very similar to the way I grew up. We didn’t ride through the fields, but walked through my parent’s garden plenty of times, freshly picked veggies at the ready.
With a contemporary spin on Southern cooking, Gena’s recipes rely on fresh, seasonal ingredients to make them work with little trouble. 
And guess what? We have ONE cookbook to give away to one of my readers. If you’d like a chance at this beautiful hardback cookbook, just leave a comment telling me your favorite dish to make for your family.
That’s it! I’ll leave the giveaway open until Sunday evening and choose a winner then.
chili…I love to make chili and to eat it too….
I would have to say my family likes me to make mac and cheese the best. Comfort food at it’s best! thanks…
Good ole comfort meatloaf, with great veggies on the side.
As an aside note, I saw the little donation site for breast cancer
and it made me think it wouldn’t hurt to say this;
I will be walking for the third time in April here in Houston
for the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer – 39.6 miles – $1800.00
requirement to qualify – please – please encourage all to donate
$10 and promise to get 4 others to donate $10 each.
My website tied in to the Avon walk is
http://www.avonwalk.org/goto/2011walk
Thanks in advance. . . patti g
Oh, I hope I win!!
My family’s favorite is tacos. My favorite, on the other hand, is the meal that I make once a year–right at the end of summer. Totally unhealthy, but so, so good. Fried eggplant, fried okra, fried cornbread, purple hull peas, and slices of fresh red warm tomatoes. Sometimes, to gild the lily, there is silver queen corn, too. Oh, it makes me long for August! I love, love, love this meal.
The family loves homemade pizza! And this southern girl would love this beautiful book.
Ham and vegetable soup, just like my Mama makes it. Lots of ham, corn, butter beans, tomatoes, string beans, potatoes, cabbage, etc. Great on a cold, Winter day.
Why fried chicken and pimento cheese sandwiches and deviled eggs. Chocolate cake tops off the family favorites that spells southern with a S .
When I make Chicken Pie, everybody shows up for dinner. Your cookbook is wonderful. Would love to win a copy!
One of my favorite recipes to make is my grandmother’s (Meme) macaroni pie. It’s basically her southern way of making macaroni and cheese that you cook in the oven instead of on the stove. For the longest time my grandparents lived in South Carolina and the would come down every Christmas to visit us in Florida. Whenever they would come my sisters and I would beg Meme to make us macaroni pie. It’s sinfully delicious and my ultimate comfort food for myself and my family!
Right now with the cold weather, I love making home made soups. Tonight we’ll have minestrone soup and grilled cheese. Wonderful comfort food. thank you for the chance to win.
My favorite dish is southern mac-n-cheese! YUMMY!
My grandmother’s coconut cake…..It brings back so many memories, and my children even ask for it as their birthday cake………
I love to make enchiladas, every loves them and they are easy and can be made ahead of time and frozen. Also we love to make and eat kneople, a regional dumpling soup.
Right now my favorite go-to recipes seem to be jambalaya and a really simple chili recipe I found recently. I love trying new things! Thanks for the chance to win this book – looks wonderful.
Sounds like my kinda cookbook…. I love making lasagna for my family..
A yummy roast with carrots and potatoes!
i would LOVE to win this cook book!! thanks for hosting this giveaway! i like to cook all sorts of things, but my husband’s favorite is a cajun shrimp pasta from cooking light…so yummy!
I love to cook for my family and one of my favorites is Chicken and Dumplings.
The cookbook sounds wonderful! I’ve been making a soups druing this cold weather……..chili, potato soup, vegetable soup, etc. My lasagna is probably the most requested dish from my family.
One of my family’s frequent requests is what we refer to as vanilla biscuits though the original recipe was called Mary’s sweet drop biscuits. I misplaced the recipe for awhile which was catastrophic since I tried to recreate the recipe but just couldn’t get the taste right. Then there was a great celebration when I found the recipe card tucked into the pages of a cookbook! Now both of my adult daughters have a copy of the recipe so we have a back up if it ever gets lost again. 🙂