BRUNCH WITH BINGO WEEKEND EDITION: RECIPES ACROSS AMERICA: A REVIEW AND GIVEAWAY, PART ONE

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BOOKIN' WITH BINGO'S
"BRUNCH WITH BINGO DAY"
I AM EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THIS WEEKEND'S
  FOOD BOOK CHOICE IS.....

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RECIPES ACROSS AMERICA

735 of the Best Recipes from Across the Nation 

TASTE OF HOME BOOKS from 

READER'S DIGEST PUBLISHING

ABOUT THE COOKBOOK:
Take a culinary road trip across the USA! Brand-new TASTE OF HOME: RECIPES ACROSS AMERICA lets you savor the country’s best-loved local flavors—without leaving home.

Sink your teeth into 735 delicious recipes, from crispy Southern Fried Chicken and tasty Philly Cheese Steak Sandwiches to sweet Hoosier Sugar Cream Pie. You’ll discover best-loved hometown specialties from cities and towns all over the country…tasty gems only the locals know…fun-to-know food facts and folklore…and so much more! Every mouthwatering main dish, side, salad, soup and dessert is the family-favorite of a real home cook like you. As a bonus, you’ll enjoy fun food facts and folklore sprinkled throughout the pages. The cookbook is in hardcover, with 512 pages, and include colorful photos and notes regarding regional landmarks, infamous restaurants and more.

 

ABOUT THE SECTIONS OF RECIPES ACROSS AMERICA:

With this collection the country is yours from coast to coast. You can plan a Southern summertime barbecue, feed hungry hands with Tex-Mex, enjoy the silky smoothness of maple syrup pie, have a German feast for Okoberfest, juicy fruits from the Pacific Northwest or Classic Cobb Salad. 

Here is how the sections are broken down and some of the recipes they  highlight in each section: 

NORTHEAST: Philly Cheese Steak, Yankee Pot Roast, New Haven Clam Pizza, Authentic Boston Brown Bread, Buffalo Chicken Wings, Amish Sugar Cookies and Brooklyn Blackout Cake

SOUTH: Shrimp Po-Boys, South Carolina-Style Ribs, Bacon Collard Green, Cheese 'n' Grits Casserole, Georgia Peanut Salsa, Sweet Potato Fries, Banana Pudding and Hummingbird Cake

MIDWEST: Church Supper Hot Dish, Onion Loose Meat Sandwiches, Cherry Wild Rice Salad, German Potato Salad, Chocolate-Covered Buckeyes, Golden Apple Snack Cake and State Fair Cream Puffs

SOUTHWEST: Arizona Chicken, Barbecued Beef Brisket, Chicken-Fried Steaks, Sizzling Tex-Mex Fajitas, Armadillo Eggs, Texas Caviar, Dr Pepper Barbecue Sauce, Classic Fruit Kolaches, German Chocolate Cake and Tres Leches Cake

WEST: Buffalo Steak Salad, Chicken Long Rice, Pacific Rim Salmon, California Sushi Rolls, Green Goddess Salad Dressing, Romaine Caesar Salad, Utah Buttermilk Scones, Caramel-Frosted Potato Cake, Oregon's Best Marionberry Pie and Lemon Tart with Almond Crust 

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER:

For 20 years, Taste of Home has been the world’s most popular cooking publication. Through the pages of the flagship magazine, popular cookbooks and online community, Taste of Home offers a friendly exchange of family-favorite recipes, cooking tips and personal stories from genuine home cooks. Because professional food staff tests and evaluates every recipe in the Taste of Home Test Kitchen, readers are guaranteed success every time.

Taste of Home is a go-to resource for the holidays and any time of the year for information on food, cooking and entertaining. Each year, thousands of great home cooks from across the United States and Canada submit more than 40,000 recipes, of which 3,000 are published in Taste of Home magazines and online, making Taste of Home one of the largest and most successful practitioners of user generated content. Before being published, every recipe is tested in the Taste of Home Test Kitchen to ensure that it can be prepared with affordable, everyday ingredients from regular grocery stores. Taste of Home content is available in print; online at Tasteofhome.com; in books; via digital download on iPad, mobile apps and Kindle; and Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

 

A SAMPLE RECIPE FROM RECIPES ACROSS AMERICA:

LOUISIANA RED BEANS AND RICE

Smoked turkey sausage and red pepper flakes punch up the flavor of this saucy, slow-cooked version of the New Orleans classic. For extra heat, add red pepper sauce at the table.
-- Julia Bushree, Georgetown, Texas

PREP: 20 min.
COOK: 8 hours
YIELDS: 9 servings

INGREDIENTS:

• 4 cans (16 ounces each) kidney beans, rinsed and drained
• 1 can (14½ ounces) diced tomatoes, undrained
• 1 package (14 ounces) smoked turkey sausage, sliced
• 1 cup chicken broth
• 3 celery ribs, chopped
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 1 medium green pepper, chopped
• 1 small sweet red pepper, chopped
• 6 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 bay leaf
• ½ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
• 2 green onions, chopped
• Hot cooked rice

DIRECTIONS:  

1. In a 4-qt. slow cooker, combine the first 11 ingredients. 

2. Cover and cook on low for 8-10 hours or until vegetables are tender. 

3. Stir before serving. Discard bay leaf.

4. Sprinkle each serving with onions. 

5. Serve with rice. 

MY THOUGHTS/REVIEW:

Watch for my review in Part 2 of RECIPES ACROSS AMERICA tomorrow.

 

GIVEAWAY 

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