You
don’t have to own a beach house to enjoy Mary Kay Andrews’ recipes. All you
need is an appetite for delicious, casual dishes, cooked with the best fresh,
local ingredients and presented with the breezy flair that make Mary Kay
Andrews’ novels a summertime favorite at the beach.
From an
early spring dinner of cherry balsamic-glazed lamb chops and bacon-kissed green
beans, to Fourth of July buttermilk-brined fried chicken, yuppie potato salad,
and Coca-Cola cake, to her New Year’s Day Open House menu of charcoal-grilled
oysters, home-cured gravlax, grits n’ greens casserole, and Meyer lemon bar
trifle, this cookbook will supply ideas for menus and recipes designed to put
you in a permanently carefree coastal state of mind all year long.
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12 Things
About Mary Kay Andrews
1. My first
successful dish was cinnamon toast—made by me when I was home sick from school
in second grade. Still love me some cinnamon toast. The brownies made from
Hershey’s syrup and flour were not quite as big a success.
2. I have no
sense of direction and literally get lost looking for my hotel room. Every.
Time. Thank Gawd for my phone’s GPS.
3. I’m the
only person I know who didn’t get her driver’s license the minute she turned
sixteen. Taking driver’s ed made me terrified to drive! So I didn’t get my
license until my parents forced me to, the summer I turned twenty.
4. I married
my high school sweetheart, Tom. Forty years later, we’re still bickering over
who gets the remote control.
5. The
secret reason I have two beach houses? Hoarding tendencies. With the exception
of new appliances and new mattresses, I was able to completely furnish both
houses with estate sale, Craigslist, and junk store finds.
6. Both our
Tybee Island beach houses, Breeze Inn and Ebbtide, are named after the
fictional beach houses in my novels. The Breeze Inn was the name of a rundown
motel in SAVANNAH BREEZE, and Ebbtide was the name of an oceanfront Nags Head
house in SUMMER RENTAL. P.S. Both houses are vacation rentals, so you can stay
there too.
7. Food
phobias: Lima beans, liver, canned peas, Easter peeps.
8. My
husband and son are rabid fishermen, but I have a deep-seated aversion to fish.
See #9.
9. If I have
a super power, it’s my sense of smell.
10. Math is my kryptonite. I
couldn’t balance a checkbook if my life depended on it.
11. My husband thinks
he’s a better cook than me. He might not be wrong.
12. Hate to fry. Love to bake.
Author bio:
MARY KAY
ANDREWS is The New York Times bestselling author of The
Weekenders, Beach Town, Save the Date, Ladies’ Night, Christmas
Bliss, Spring Fever, Summer Rental, The Fixer Upper,
Deep Dish, Blue Christmas, Savannah Breeze, Hissy Fit, Little Bitty Lies, and Savannah
Blues. A former journalist for The Atlanta Journal
Constitution, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
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