A book of stories and recipes  .  .  .  

  written,

    compiled,

        and boiled down . . .

the source of incredible food!

Flavored with Love is a book of Southern stories with the best of Southern food. After Katrina, our friends requested more Louisiana food and stories. As the Louisiana people became scattered throughout the United States, the interest in our kind of food spread also.

Flavored with Love, Mary Lou’s Family and Friends Can Cook, Third Edition (revised and expanded story/cookbook) is a wonderful experience with recipes for some of the best food you'll ever put in your mouth and wonderful stories of life in the South. Imagine the delightful aromas wafting through your house as you enjoy the stories.

The Southern cooking in a down-home Louisiana and Mississippi style ranges from foolproof sugar cookies to make with children at Christmas to authentic Italian lasagna. While humor isn’t always intended, it frequently intrudes as family life is experienced.

Whatever became of those fantastic, delicious old recipes that families used to treasure? They are in Flavored with Love, Third Edition! Many of these recipes are for the best old stuff you can't even get any more.

Mary, I'm ready to order it!

Yearning for home?

--Home with the kind of cooking Mama used to do
--Home with the stories Grandpa used to tell

 

Just Imagine:

--The smell of butter, chocolate, and pecans wafting through every room
--The taste of chocolate cookies made by a retro recipe—the kind you liked when you were a child
--Rich cakes that melt in your mouth as they caress your tongue
--The aromas and the tastes of Creole and Cajun food
--Touching the memories of New Orleans the way it was
--Tongue tingling spices

I want to order Flavored with Love, Third Edition now, Mary!

Imagine serving an authentic Louisiana meal that you prepared without difficulty filling your house with the distinctive odors of Creole and Cajun food. There is no equal!

Okay, take me to the order page!

Cook a Louisiana feast!

Your new and updated Flavored with Love is loaded with food facts and more stories. If you love LOUISIANA cooking (who doesn’t?) and you need to know how to prepare standard Louisiana dishes, as well as some that few people outside south Louisiana know about, you will be delighted with the third edition. Even if you don’t cook, you need to know what is included in the cuisine.

I need this cookbook. Let me order it now, please.

A Piece of Our Hearts

The family and friends have poured their hearts into the selections of ingredients and the details of the preparations of this nostalgic food. Flavored with Love, Third Edition, will fill an important place on your shelf while it fills a heart corner that longs for the taste of home.

The last time I went to Gregg Hill in south Mississippi, most of the people along with the familiar landmarks were gone, but I could see in my mind Uncle Dan, Aunt Etta, Mama, Dad . . . all of them! I could still remember the fun we had back then . . . the sad times and the scary times. Despite all the peculiarities in our family we loved each other.

When you read your book, you'll see the creeks and ponds where we used to fish . . . smell the freshly cut watermelons . . . taste the homemade pies . . . help Myrtle eat scrambled eggs. You'll get your hands into the squishy sausage as it comes out the meat grinder. The stories will sweep over you and fill your heart with a dream of a simpler life not very long ago . . . .

Flavored with Love will take you to a world that is slipping away. As I think about it, I grow a little homesick.

Mary,let me look at the order page.

You need the recipes with the stories.

Flavored with Love is loaded with recipes and stories to match. One of our favorites is the recipe for Slow Smoked Wild Duck (or Goose). And the matching story begins this way:

Keeping the Dog Happy, aka Duck Hunting

By Paul Elliott

In my youth, a good friend and fellow hunter talked me into duck hunting.  

We would get up about 4 a.m. for the drive to the Texas marsh flats on the  Bolivar peninsula. You need to be in the blind with decoys deployed at      sunrise—all preceded by a two-mile walk in chest waders through ankle- to  calf-deep mud. When the weather was right (cold, foggy, and windless), our  “skilled” calling brought in enough for each of us to limit out. We, the mighty  hunters, would proudly return with the wild game . . . .     

When I was a little girl, my brother used to tell me about glass snakes. He told me--I was such a gullible girl--that glass snakes were about three or four feet long. He saw them all the time, but I never did. I was never with him when he saw them either.

When a glass snake was startled, he said, it would break into pieces about four inches long. Then spontneously it would find all the pieces and go back together. I believed him!

I tell the truth, and I'm telling you that this cookbook is one like no other. It is a rare find. My family and friends have shared some stories that will grasp your mind and take you away from the stress of everyday's rushing around.

Some of the stories are mildly exaggerated, and most of the characters are real. All the stories are printed with the permission of the tellers unless, of course, they are deceased. If you have questions or if you would like to discuss a recipe, write me.

Show me the way to order my cookbook using my credit card.

Flavored with Love costs only $22.97. Go to Pay Pal and order it with a credit card:

Flavored with Love, Mary Lou’s Family and Friends Can Cook, Third Edition—what an exciting cookbook!

--More than 300 favorite recipes in big print
--More than 300 letter-sized pages
--Signature recipes from excellent Louisiana restaurants
--Famous Louisiana recipes
--New stories from the family and friends
--Fun food and cooking facts
--A new style of cooking La Cuisine Texianne™

I need this book, Mary. Show me how to buy it.