The Cowgirl's Cookbook: Recipes for Your Home on the Range [Paperback]

Jill Charlotte Stanford (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2008

Filled with fun recipes and nostalgic looks back at the heyday of the cowgirl era, this book celebrates the wild women of the Old West. From "Fit for a Queen Green Chili Soup" to "Cowgirl Margaritas," Cowgirl's Cookbook is fun to puruse and to will be excellent to use for a cowgirl-themed girls night or campout.

 

 

Editorial Reviews

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"When a cowgirl dies and goes to Heaven, she does not get a halo. Instead, she gets a big, silver belt buckle."

--from the Introduction

From the Back Cover

I want to be a real cowboy girl

and wear all the buckles and straps

and know how it feels to wear spurs on your heels

then strut around in my chaps.

 

I want to tote a six-shooter too.

wear a belt that is four inches wide
then ride like the deuce on a buckskin cayuse
with a cowboy I love at my side.
  —C. Prentis Forrester

 

Cowgirl, make a meal at a gallop and make it look easy!

 

Take a dash of western myth, a sprinkle of vintage photographs, and a dollop of tall tales, simmer with a delicious selection of western recipes, and, voila—The Cowgirl’s Cookbook. From Cow Punchers Punch to June’s Ranch Beans, Cackleberries on Toast to Cowgirl Crude Salsa, Fit for a Queen Green Chili Soup to Texas Two-Step Blackberry Dumplings, these hearty fixins will feed a city girl’s fantasy as well as a country boy’s belly.

 

Whether home is on the prairie or you’ve got Big Sky dreams, it’s time to rustle up your inner cowgirl and hit the range. These recipes ain’t just for trail drives no more!

 

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Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: TwoDot; 1st edition (May 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762745126
• ISBN-13: 978-0762745128
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 8.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #72,244 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #2 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Cooking, Food & Wine > Regional & International > U.S. Regional > General
  • #39 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Cooking, Food & Wine > General

More About the Author

Howdy to all the Cowgirls (and Cowboys too!) out there who have taken the time to click on my biography.
I am a writer who lives, write, cooks and rides in Central Oregon.
I've been a professional writer since 1985.
In addition to The Cowgirl's Cookbook, I have written Going It Alone; Getting Your Goat: The Gourmet Guide; Lamb Country Cooking and my newest book, WIld Women and Tricky Ladies ( a history of women trick riders) will be out August, 2010.
The cover artist did this painting you see instead of a mug shot -- it's called "Cowgirl Jill 1" and I treasure it!
I have plans for another book and I'll get started on it when the snow flies. Of course, it will be about Cowgirls. Write about what you know is always the best advice.
Thanks for reading this -- I hope you enjoy my books. I enjoy writing them!
JCS

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Made me hungry, July 20, 2008

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Thomas Rentschler (Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Cowgirl's Cookbook: Recipes for Your Home on the Range (Paperback)

Good books are good because they have a rhythm, a flow, that connects parts. That is no easy chore in a recipe book, but Ms. Stanford's side bars and personal comments create that flow. I cannot cook, but I have read the book with pleasure, and it made me hungry. I am going ask my grandchildren to fix me stuff. The photos and Western connection certainly added to pleasure of reading.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simple, tasty, irresistable, January 12, 2009

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Bee (Pasadena, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Cowgirl's Cookbook: Recipes for Your Home on the Range (Paperback)

My sister received this book for Christmas. *I* can't put it down! It contains simple recipes, using simple, common ingredients, for everything from drinks to entrees to desserts. It looked to me like most recipes in there could also be made out in the field, bunkhouse kitchen, or cabin, using skillets or dutch ovens.

And the book is filled with photos, quotes, and vintage recipes from cowgirls. I think that's what makes it really irresistable to me...as a western chick who camps and rides, this book resonates with me. Food, human and animal companionship, good sense, and a love of the outdoors is the connection this book provides....those corseted, smiling ladies could walk right up next to me as I'm checking to see if the cornbread is done, stretching out my tired back, and slapping hay off my shirt, and it would be like the hundred years separating us had never passed at all.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cowgirl Perfection!, May 24, 2008

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Michael T. Preedin (Sisters, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Cowgirl's Cookbook: Recipes for Your Home on the Range (Paperback)

The Cowgirl's Cookbook: Recipes for Your Home on the Range - It's the cutest little cowgirl book ever.

This book has the most authentic recipes a cowgirl (or cowboy, in my case) could ever want. The photos inside are fantastic as well.

It's only ten bucks or so, so buy one for you and one for your mom. You won't be sorry, I promise.