Second Helpings

By Johnnie Gabriel

Second Helpings draws from Johnnie Gabriel’s personal collection of her Southern favorites throughout more than twenty years of professional bakery and restaurant experience, alongside the menu mainstays of her closest friends, family members, and fellow restaurant industry pals.

Those two little words “second helpings” hold so much meaning. Asking for second helpings means that your food is good enough to ask for more. This cookbook comprises special recipes that Johnnie has time- and taste-tested, and they’ve gotten the “second-helping approval stamp” many times over.

In Second Helpings, Johnnie shares scrumptious recipes such as:

• Black Eyed Pea Spread
• Shrimp Creole
• Smoky Chipotle Grilled Baby Back Ribs
• Strawberry Layer Crème Pie

This Georgia lady knows a thing or two about pleasing a crowd of hungry Southerners and these recipes weren’t concocted in a glass-walled test kitchen.

Second Helpings features time-tested meals that have nourished and comforted families at tables across the South for decades. Second helpings all around? Inevitable!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Release date: Oct 17, 2010
• ISBN: 9781401600709

Johnnie Gabriel

Johnnie Gabriel started baking cakes alongside her grandmother as a young girl in south Georgia. Today, Johnnie is known as Atlanta’s “Cake Lady” for her mouth-watering red velvet cupcakes, award-winning wedding cakes, and other delectable desserts. In 1996, Johnnie and Ed Gabriel expanded their successful dessert business into Gabriel’s Restaurant and Bakery, a popular restaurant serving homemade southern comfort food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.