The Sweet Potato Queen’s Cookbook
I’m having a blast reading this book by Jill Conner Browne.
I am reading “The Sweet Potato Queen’s Big Ass Cook Book and let me tell you I want to be a Sweet Potato Queen. If Jill Conner Browne had written her Big Ass Sweet Potato Queen books 20 years ago, I would have become one, but now I’m afraid it’s too late. My grandkids couldn’t see me as a Big Ass Sweet Potato Queen. They would laugh their heads off. My children might have pictured me as one a few years ago. I wasn’t quiet as sedate then as I appear to be now. You know you have to set a good example for the grandkids. Gotta tone down your wild side.
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Jill Conner Browne is a real Southern girl. She speaks the language I grew up with. My kids didn’t hear me use it unless they eavesdropped on me and my girl friends. It’s the language I am most at home with. My mother, aunts and their women friends spoke it before Jill was a twinkle in her father’s eye. I decided early on it was vulgar and only spoke it around close girl friends who were as familiar with it as I was.
Now I wish I had lived my life more as the real me and not something I thought I should be. Let me advise you right now to be the real you, what you feel at home with is what to strive for, and not what you think someone else will be impressed with. I feel I have missed a lot by not being myself. I have done all right but I haven’t felt as at home in this world as I could have. As my grandma would have said, Don’t get above your raising.
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Here is what Jill says about getting old.”You look in the mirror every day and you pretty much like what you see, and then one morning you look in the mirror expecting to see the same face and think, who is that old woman? On closer inspection you find it to be you-in an old lady suit, which apparently has become affixed to your own person. You gaze in horror at some body part-your arm for instance-and notice with a shudder as you have a million times a day for your entire life with no ill effects, the skin ripples and wrinkles in a bizarre fashion. Whose arm is hanging from your body? you ask. And have you looked at your knees lately? Don’t even bother. Just trust me-it’s bad.” This woman is a truthful soul. I admire that.
Here is a recipe from her “Big Ass Cook Book” you might want to try. Jill calls it
The Gooiest Cake in the World
Ingredients
- 1 box of yellow cake mix
- 3 eggs
- 1/4 cup water
- one 20 oz. crushed pineapple
Method
- Mix it up and bake however the cake box says and ice it with the following:
- Melt 2 sticks butter and mix that with 1 cup evaporated milk and 1 1/2 cups sugar, then add one small can(7 oz.)Angel Flake coconut.
- Poke holes in the cake and pour this stuff over it.
- As soon as it cools off the slightest bit, put your face into it.
I haven’t finished the book yet but I am enjoying a trip back to my beginnings. I thought you might enjoy just a touch of it too.
Liked it
nice write.
Great review!!..I liked potato so much..thanks for sharing this nice stuff.
She sounds like quite a character. An interesting write.
Christine
Sounds like a good one! Great review…
I understand where your coming from Ruby but our family was so wild I had to tone it down lol. My goal in life was not to be like them and I think I’ve succeeded, at this age I don’t know if that was good or bad or if it meant anything at all but back then it was important to me but I guess I’ve arrived.I just might get that book sounds like a blast.They seemed to have much more fun than I did lol Excellent write and read Ruby
Sounds like a good book.
Great article! Thanks for sharing.
Good review. I’ll admit, I’ve spent a life-time working on diction and vocabulary. I had no desire to go through life being considered ignorant because I “worshed” the clothes after I “biled” water on the “far”.
Try to be who you are, I always say. Great article!
wonderful! yeah this is great!
That was great
Love the title and love that you wonder where you got the old lady suit from. I also look in the mirror, and wonder where I got the fat bastard suit from. Damned if I can get the thing off.
I would also say, why tone down the wild side. Kids also learn from their grandparents, and in many cases, they learn how to enjoy life through their grandparents.
Good stuff dude!
It’s not too late to become yourself again. besides, grankids love a grandma who is a little on the wild side (my grandma drinks hard licquor all the time… it’s fun) That cake sounds amazing thhough
Me and my skinny male ass will have to pass on this one.
Having a big ass isn’t a prerequisite for being sweet. I just feel you are as sweet as you write every piece you submit so keep it up my friend.
Looks like a interesting read!
Nicely presented. like it.
very interesting.its always never too late though. nice article, i love reading it, and the recipes.
Very enjoyable review, it sounds like an excellent read. No matter what you feel, I think you should be proud of yourself Ruby, you are a continual inspiration to me and I’m sure many more of us here.
I truly enjoyed this and many of us probably wish we had been our true self, instead of being what we thought others wanted to see. I’ll take a look at the site.
Thank you my friends, you are so kind to me.
Daisy, you misunderstand me. I didn’t mean the “hern”, “hisen”, “drap”, or “ort”. I meant the expressive phrases that are so colorful and to the point.”Don’t give me that hound dog look.” “Her butt looks like two wildcats in a tow sack fighting to get out.” “He needs a shuck lit under his tail.” See what I’m talking about.
lol, that is great!
Thanks,
Clay
Very nice write up
This was a great fun to read article. I love yams and sweet potatoes. The Pictures are great, especially the first one with the happy queens.
Fun, unique article – I love sweet potatoes!
Blessings.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
Well done review. I will have to add this to my list of what I must read. I love anything about us good old Southern girls.
Nice article – I loved the pix. That will be me one day with the hot pink boa and sunglasses – My kids expect it already:) God Bless – Princess
written good I will read it ~~!
Ruby, you ARE yourself; kind, caring and considerate – putting others first is the best form of self expression.
I would love to buy the book. ISBN number please!
j
gREAT REVIEW! nOW i’LL HAVE TO GET THIS BOOK.
Sorry about the crazy typing my computer decided to act up a bit.
Older, but wiser, Ruby. I always say: You better like yourself because you’re stuck with you all your life.
Fun! I simply have got to get the book and give a copy to my daughter but not until AFTER she delivers her twins since she’s a tad bit sensitive about her posterior at the moment.
But I’m ordering it asap. Loved your article the recipe and the aging body wisdom. To quote a bumper sticker I once saw—
Inside every old person is a young person screaming “What the H_LL happened!”
Good write Ruby. I will try the recipe. Well done.
I like you with the crown you now wear! TX for the write.
Thanks again to everyone who came by. I love you everyone.
Awww, Ruby I love you just the way you are! You have always been a wonderful, helpful friend and person.
A very refreshing write, Ruby. Thank you!
Nice, I feel the delicacy.Thanks.
Jill sounds like quite the character!
I wonder how the recipe will turn out…
A very enjoyable read!
This post was sweet (no punn intended.)
Great review, Ruby. I really enjoyed it. This book sounds really good. Thanks for the recipe. It’s making me hungry.
…Hi Ruby, very interesting and fun to read. Take care.
great article,
Thanks for the recipe and ideas,
I’m no cook but it sounds good
I loved the orginal Sweet Potato Queens novel. Now I have to find this cookbook and read it. Please tell me the recipes for Chocolate Stuff and Pig Candy are in it!!!
Thanks for sharing – great writing!!
Sounds cool, thanks.
Great review. I want to check this out now! I make that pineapple cake all the time and put cool whip on top instead of icing. People love it!
Josey
My favorite character was Poot. Loved the book and the recipe sounds great too.