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Ten Cooking Questions for Kristy Lee Cook
Q: If you were cooking dinner for Simon Cowell, what would you serve him?
A: Probably Rattlesnake. Ha! No! In all seriousness, I would cook him something like elk steaks, sweet potato casserole, bread and salad. (I know rattlesnake sounds best for the person who struck at me the most!)
Q: Who introduced you to cooking, and at what age?
A: My last name is Cook, so it was inevitable! But my mother had a lot to do with helping me learn to cook, cooking together in the kitchen. It started off with small things like eggs, bacon, cookies.
Q: When you are entertaining guests, what's your go-to dish?
A: Oh boy, I don't really have many guests come hang out cause I'm busy, but when I have a friend over, they always want me to cook my famous stir-fry. It works for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Q: You're obviously very fit and health conscious; what do you typically eat when you're on the road?
A: Well, I can thank my dad for my metabolism, cause I eat whatever I want. Sometimes if I'm a bit heavier I can tell when my jeans are tighter, so I just eat breakfast, skip lunch and eat a small dinner. In two days of that, I'm back to normal. But there are a few things ...
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Alabama Red Beans & Rice
I've had a couple of friends from New Orleans ask me what made these "Alabama" red beans and rice. I reminded them that Louisiana isn't the only state with Cajun and Creole culture.
Alabama has plenty of Cajuns, too, down in our own bayou country. In ...
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Winters Day Etouffee
Nothing Inspires a Heart-Warming Recipe Like an Icy Brush With Death.
Cabin fever can be a dangerous thing, especially to a whitetail hunter who’s been cooped up for three days, waiting out an ice storm.
Gale force winds were continuing to rip down ice-cove...
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Sourdough Bread
A little ceramic crock sits on my kitchen counter, filled with sourdough bread starter from a recipe given to me by my mother many years ago. Once a week, I take a dipper of its content, mix it with flour, oil, yeast and sugar to begin filling the kitchen w...
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White Chicken Chili
They say the sense of smell is the most powerful for recalling memories. That certainly seems to be the case whenever I make white chicken chili.
Each step of the cooking process brings back fond memories of a happy day in October of 2001. That’s the day I...
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A Break in the Clouds
Miserable day ends with muzzleloader GIANT and a classic Heartland meal.
Southern Ohio - 2:35 a.m.
With a gasp, I bolted straight up in bed, rubbed my eyes and fumbled for my digital camera sitting on the nightstand. Eventually, I mashed the right buttons an...
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When It Comes to Dessert - All is Fair in Deer Camp
Dessert is a highly prized commodity in deer camp. I’ve seen scuffles, wounded friendships, multiple contusions and out-and-out thievery over something as trivial as the last squirt of Cool Whip. But I almost feel guilty about the apple pie incident that oc...
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