The Neelys' Celebration Cookbook: Down-Home Meals for Every Occasion

If you're looking for a great gift for a friend or a treat for yourself, this is the book for you. I love to collect recipes and cookbooks and this is one of the best. The pictures are beautiful. It's so important to have pictures because then you know just what the dish is suppose to look like. I also loved the idea of the beverage recipe listed along with the food. Everything was doable and delicious with simple ingredients for an elegant meal. I enjoy trying new things. This book was a great investment and I will be giving copies to friends who also enjoy cooking.

I bought this book for my mom as a gift for Christmas and she loves it. There are plenty of recipes in this book. Lots of grilling and BBQ recipes (not so great cause my mom doesn't do a lot of grilling but hopefully it can be adapted to oven-prep). It is very well made and will be great for use and display. It has some stories about the couple and history behind some of the meals. It is separated by occasion which makes it easy to find when you are looking for a dish to prepare to bring to a party. I have tried some of the Nealy's recipes from online and they have all been very good so I trust their recipes. I usually look for a recipe from them first. Overall very happy with purchase.

Always like the Neelys and their great home-cooking and this book delivers more of their best recipes along with some of their own personal stories. It covers all of the major holidays and most of life's special celebrations. Bourbon Bread Pudding, Smothered Pork Chops, Sweet Cola BBQ Beef Ribs are some of their yummy recipes. These are down-to-earth people with easy to follow recipes - no unknown or hard to find ingredients and every recipe I tried tasted sooooo very good! Lots of colorful food pictures to get the juices going.

I was impressed with the recipes in the book and it definitely will be a go to for me when I'm in the mood to try something different. I have only made 3 of the recipes for Xmas dinner. The winter greens was good. I had a hard time finding chard. The greens took a long time to prepare (washing & picking). My family and I especially loved the collard green dressing. It was not hard to make. I did make a few substitution used pepperidge farm cornbread dressing and the broth from my turkey. Collard greens and carrots in dressing what a surprise and what a great taste.

This is my second Neely's cookbook. I like the first better. That is not to critique this book, just personal preference. This is another well done cookbook, featuring old family favorites, often updated for today's cooking styles. Very nice and fitting family photos are included. I have a friend who really enjoyed this volume, so away it went as a Christmas gift. Oh well, my new copy is just an order away. Enjoy and try the recipes, just good down home cooking and eats in special settings!

I enjoyed reading the recipes.bthey sound delicious. I have only made a couple of them but they were good. I liked the write up too.

I am not a person that uses a cookbook, but I want to be that person. My goal is to expand the dishes that my family is exposed to. I cook the same ole things the same ole way all the time. So I ordered a few cookbooks. I have looked through the book and found many recipes that I want to try. There are many pictures in the book, which is what I wanted. I ordered the Pattie LaBelle book and it did not have many pictures. I have not cooked any of the recipes yet, but I plan to over the holidays. I will update this review when I actually complete something.

Loved the recipes as well as the pictures of the finished recipe.