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Copyright 2015 by Kay Robertson

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Robertson, Kay.

Duck Commander Kitchen presents Celebrating family and friends recipes for every month of the year / Kay Robertson with Chrys Howard.

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1.Cooking, AmericanLouisiana style.2.Seasonal cooking.3.Robertson, KayFamily.4. Duck Dynasty (Television program)I.Howard, Chrys.II.Title.III.Title: Celebrating family and friends recipes for every month of the year.

TX715.2.L68R6592015

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ISBN 978-1-5011-1202-7

ISBN 978-1-4767-9573-7 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-4767-9577-5 (ebook)

To my grandchildren and great-grandchildren

My grandchildren are my life. They bring me such a sense of purpose as I help to train them to love God and one another. Its especially fun to have so many granddaughters after having four rugged sons. Now I get to play dress up and baby dolls! Of course, my grandsons are just as special. I love seeing their daddies in them. What fun it has been to see the combination of my sons and their wives in their children. God creates each one of us differently, but its great to see that He hands down some of the best traitslike dimples and a sense of humor. I love to cook for a full table and mine keeps getting bigger and bigger. Babies, grandbabies, great-grandbabiesits the circle of life!

Chrys and I love spending time with all of our grandkids!

Childrens children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.

PROVERBS 17:6 NIV

I f you know anything about me, you know that I love to cook. Its something I learned from my grandmother, and to this day, I cherish the hours I spent with her in her kitchen. She taught me how to make the perfect piecrust and how to fry the juiciest chicken. But cooking wasnt the most important thing she taught me. She showed me the value of sharing what I cooked with others. My earliest memories of my life with Phil include cooking and sharing meals with our young friends and family members. I wouldnt trade those memories for anything.

I wrote this cookbook because I wanted to pass on to you my love for celebrating with friends and family every chance we get. Its been proven that families who share meals togetheraround a table, not in front of the TVare happier and healthier in every way. Celebrating with others is never about the perfect place setting or the correct number of invited guests. My idea of entertaining is to open the screen door and say, Yall come on in! This is probably not a shock to you, but Im the party animal of the family. Phil would be quite content never to leave his house or his chair or his woods. But Phil understands and values relationships and has always stood next to me as we fried fish or baked a pie for guests who were looking for some biblical truth or marriage wisdom. He might go on to bed when hes done talking, but he never minds opening the door.

Sharing was a big part of cooking with my grandmother. We shared everything from cookies to brisket with church and community members who needed us to share in their celebration or their sadness. The occasions represented in this book provide year-long reasons to get together. From the pilgrims celebrating their year of good fortune to a young mom eager to open baby gifts, special occasions are the fabric of American society. I have never and will never claim to be the greatest cook in America, but I will claim to love cooking and love sharing what I cook.

In my first cookbook, I arranged the chapters around my family members and their favorite recipes. I hope youve had an opportunity to see it and cook from it. In this cookbook, I wanted to pass on to you our familys love of getting together and invite you to gather up your loved ones as often as you can. To help you do that, I collected a whole new set of recipes that are ideal for celebrating with the ones we love on holidays and gatherings for every month of the year.

Ive included family favorites like black-eyed peas and Key lime pie for New Years, chess pie and a wonderful ham for Easter, fried pickles and chicken-fried steak for Fathers Day, and strawberry popsicles and lemonade chicken for the Fourth of July. Ive added venison stew and pumpkin pie dip for Grandparents Day (thats an under-celebrated day!), and Ill even teach you how to do a crawfish (or shrimp) boil that your family and friends will love! And of course, Ive included some of the absolute best Thanksgiving and Christmas recipes, ranging from an amazing roast duck to a traditional turkey breast, along with candied yams, crab dip, and a fabulous pumpkin pie with brown-sugar whipped cream.

We Robertsons use any excuse we can to sit together around a table full of food and I encourage you to do the same. To help you do that, Ive gathered recipes for every month of the year. Even though Ive provided a menu for each month and a specific reason to get together, I hope you will be creative in mixing and matching these recipes to fit your tastes and preferences and to cook any time of the year you please.

Cooking isnt hard, but it does take time. As my grandmother would say, anything worth doing is worth doing right. So, find a recipe that fits with your lifestyle and your occasion and enjoy every minute of cooking it. Then sit back and watch those you cooked for laugh and talk and grow closer.