Barbara Harper-Bach is a well known, blue-ribbon cook and artist who has recently published ten cookbooks. If you are looking to save some money and eat HEALTHIER, buy the cookbooks at http://www.bluegrasscookingclinic.com/store/. Southern cooking, country cooking, healthy doggie dishes, horse country cuisine and more!
“Butler’s Doggie Dish of the Day Cooking Clinic”, 70 pages of home made main d
ishes and treats that don’t contain the preservatives and chemicals of commercial dog food, plus lots of photographs of the recipes. $20.00, a must for the holidays for the dog owners on your Christmas list.
“The Derby Party Cooking Clinic” cookbook, 120 pages. The book is a stellar collection of unique Derby recipes from award winning horsewoman, artist and cook, Barbara Harper-Bach and area Derby Host/Hostesses to make your Derby Party as exciting as the Kentucky Derby itself. Ideas for decorating and games are included with color photographs throughout. The horsey set will be delighted with sections like “The Watering Trough” (Beverages) and “Sweetfeed” (Desserts). A must for this year’s Derby celebration and for years to come. Barbara’s oil on canvas print of her 2013 Kentucky Derby Poster entry adorns the cover and she has done horsey illustrations for each section.
“The Pat-A-Cake Clinic” cookbook is 200 pages of mouth watering recipes for biscuits, breads, coffee cakes, pancakes ,yeast rolls, and heirloom cakes, including Angelica Guica’s (Teodora’s) Artisan bread. Chef Candido’s Tutti Fruitti Cake of Celebrity Cruise Lines, and Anita Madden’s wonderful cook Virginia Shelby ‘s Cheese Bread and as a bonus many great recipes for accompaniments and side dishes. The book sells for $42.00 and will be available at local book stores and boutiques and, of course, here on my website.
“The Pure Kentucky Pie Clinic” cookbook is 145 pages of the best collection of pie recipes in the world, many being award winners. Won third place in the Georgetown pie contest with my apple butter pie in Feb. 2012.
“Thanking The Ping” The Canning Clinic Cookbook teaches the reader the lost art of canning and preserving and includes recipes for the condiments as well as recipes that use home canned goods. As usual, Barbara includes a good read in the text of this 140+ page cookbook, with stories about family and friends in connection with almost every recipe. Barbara is busy preparing for “IGA Meals in Minutes (two television shows based on recipes from the new book. TV station WBKO in Bowling Green, KY will be airing those shows. Blue Ribbon Breakfasts is a collection of the recipes that Barbara’s Blue Ribbon Breakfast committee used when they cooked for a Men’s Prayer Breakfast at Anchor Baptist Church in Lexington, Ky. The women prepared breakfast once a month for almost year for 32 hungry church men and when the leader of the group died, the breakfasts were discontinued. The book is dedicated to the leader, Jack Adcock and proceeds from the book will be donated to the church in his name. This book contains amazing recipes for wonderful country breakfasts and brunches with lots of eggy dishes suitable for spring and Easter feasting. The first, The New Turkey Clinic is a “how to” on conquering Thanksgiving by staying ahead of the game for the new Thanksgiving cook. It is a small, ten page booklet that is packed with information. Included in this book are her two winning pie recipes from last year’s Great American Pie Contest in downtown Lexington’s Fourth of July festivities in which she won first and second place out of fifty five pies. This cookbook is $12.00 plus $5.00 shipping. The second cookbook From My Mother’s Kitchen (43 pages) is in stores now and is a collection of her mother’s, grandmother’s, great-grandmother’s and friend’s mother’s recipes, just in time for Mother’s Day. $20.00 plus $5.00 shipping. The next book “The Christmas Clinic Cookbook“, $22.00, contains every recipe you will need for Christmas and is divided into two parts: the sideboard which contains recipes for all the gift giving and family that can be made ahead beginning the day after Thanksgiving with the traditional fruitcake that needs to be basted every day until Christmas with a good Liquor, and the Christmas Table that includes recipes and instructions for elegant holiday feasting from Christmas luncheons to Christmas day dinner. Her second passion as an artist enables her to illustrate her own books. They are paperback books that she self publishes. This Clinic promotes her cookbooks that are instructional and a collection of Irish family heirloom recipes. She is an award winning cook (first and second in Lexington’s Great American Pie Contest 2009) and an award winning artist who does the artwork, typing and publishing of these books. From-mother-kitchen“If you like to cook and eat and want the very best, try some of the recipes from these cookbooks. They are the best of the best. I am 75 years young and know what good cooking is. The proof is in the pudding y’all.”
-Barbara Bach-Harper
