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Ruby Ann's Down Home Trailer Park BBQin' Cookbook

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From Publishers Weekly:

Free of the restraints of haute cuisine, the Michelin guide and roofed kitchens in general, Boxcar weighs in with highly entertaining recipes and helpless hints, straight from her double-wide trailer at the High Chaparral Trailer Park in Pangburn, Ark. It should be noted that the term barbecue, in this context, refers to anything edible that has come into contact with a heat source in the out-of-doors. The results are rarely pretty but make for the kind of entertaining reading often associated with milk coming out of one's nose. The necessity for a third volume of such d‚tritus-blanc delicacies (Ruby Anne's Down Home Trailer Park Cookbook started the wheels rolling) was brought about not by the public's overwhelming demand but rather, as the author suggests, by a scarcity of government-surplus cheese, which was a staple of so many of her previous creations: budget-conscious chefs will have to dole out for Velveeta this time around to fill their Armadillo Eggs (a.k.a. stuffed jalapenos). Other frights from the cupboard show up in Billy Bob's Kabobs, a skewer full of Spam and bell peppers. Yes, one could try their hand at El Wienie Mexicano, which takes taco seasoning to a place it best ought not to go, but the better bet is to hit the Taco Bell drive-thru and then settle in with the trailer park updates and cooking tips that bookend the Pork Entombed Trout and the Born-Again Baked Beans. It is here that one discovers how to cook in a lightning storm ("send someone else out to flip the burgers") and that 57-year-old Donna Sue, over in Lot #6, is still headlining at the Blue Whale Strip Club.

Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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206 pages, Paperback

First published May 3,2003

This edition

Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 2005 by Citadel Pr
ISBN: 9780806525365
ASIN: 0806525363
Language: English

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March 26,2025

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More of the great Ruby Ann's stories and recipies, this time all about the BBQ's.

There is also a chapter in the back with some good tips and some funny one's as well.

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March 26,2025

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I met Ruby Ann at the Book Expo in Los Angeles a few years back and I've been hooked ever since. More than a cookbook, this book follows the ongoing saga of the lives of the denizens of the High Chaparral Trailer Park in Pangburn, Arkansas.
Ruby Ann covers everything from tools ("from hibachis perfect for a tailgatin' party to a grill so big you need state approval just to turn the propane handle") to safety ("folks, you got a fire burnin' in your front yard, so don't drink while you're BBQin'....there's a reason Momma Ballzak wears a wig and it ain't for fashion.")
Recipes range from comical and probably barely edible (Harland's Shriveled Wienie Bake, Me-Ma's Corn Bread Secret) to real recipes for some real BBQ (Pastor Ida May Bee's Bible Belt Brisket).
Overall, a fun and readable romp that will leave you with a craving for BBQ and a hankering for more Ruby Ann.
As Ruby Ann says, "Nothin' says God Bless America like a big old BBQ. There's just something special about a slab of meat bein' cooked to a cinder on a backyard grill that brings tears to my eyes."

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