Miss Kay's Duck Commander Kitchen: Faith, Family, and Food--Bringing Our Home to Your Table
By Kay Robertson and Chrys Howard
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About this ebook
Writing a cookbook for people who love good food has been a lifelong dream for me—and I’m so happy to be sharing some of our family’s favorite recipes with you! In this book you’ll find everything from Jase’s Favorite Sweet Potato Pie to Phil’s own special recipes, like his scrumptious Crawfish Fettuccine. There’s “girly” food for a gathering of your best girlfriends, like Aunt Judy’s Cranberry Salad, as well as dishes straight from the hunt like Boiled Squirrel and Dumplings.
In addition to more than one hundred specially chosen recipes, I’ve included old family snapshots of the days before the Duck Dynasty® series on A&E® and stories of our family and how we live. The dinner table has long been one of our favorite places for telling stories, and there’s always competition to see who can dish out the wildest story. We believe that food and cooking bring people together—it’s brought our family together for generations, and it can do the same for yours. Gather your family around the table and serve up delicious home-cooked meals with recipes like . . .
• Willie’s Famous Chicken Strips
• Melt-in-Your-Mouth Biscuits
• Cheesy Corn Casserole
• Fresh Strawberry Pie
• Best Brisket Ever
• Crawfish Balls
• Creamy Green Grape Salad
• Papaw Phil’s Homemade Ice Cream
Join with our family as we create lasting family traditions that will warm the hearts and bellies of those you love. Let’s do it together.
Kay Robertson
Kay Robertson is the revered matriarch of the Robertson family and star of A&E®’s Duck Dynasty®. For almost five decades, she’s been keeping Phil and her boys from spending too much time in the woods by bringing them back to civilization with a home cooked meal. Kay believes her cooking talents are a gift she must share, so she often ends up feeding all of the family and most of the neighborhood.
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titlepictureContents
Epigraph: 1 Corinthians 1:4–6, The Message
Epigraph: Hebrews 13:20–22, The Message
From Miss Kay
Cast-Iron Skillet
chapter 1
Cooking for Phil
Epigraph: Ephesians 5:28, The Message
Phil’s Favorite Recipes
chapter 2
Feeding My Boys
Epigraph: Romans 12:13, The Message
Recipes My Boys Love
chapter 3
The Women My Boys Love Learn to Cook
Epigraph: Ruth 1:16–17, The Message
Recipes from the Women My Boys Love
chapter 4
When the Grandkids Come Over
Epigraph: Matthew 19:13–15, The Message
Recipes for the Grandkids
chapter 5
Company’s Coming
Epigraph: 1 Peter 4:8–10, The Message
Recipes for When Company Comes
chapter 6
Louisiana at Its Best!
Epigraph: Luke 10:8, The Message
Louisiana at Its Best! Recipes
chapter 7
Dinner on the Grounds
Epigraph: Hebrews 13:2, The Message
Dinner on the Grounds Recipes
chapter 8
Miss Kay’s Muffins and Mentoring
Group
Epigraph: Titus 2:4–5, The Message
Recipes Perfect for a Mentoring Group
chapter 9
Our Cajun Christmas
Epigraph: Matthew 2:9–10, The Message
Our Cajun Christmas Recipes
chapter 10
Wild Game Cooking
Epigraph: Proverbs 12:27, NIV
Wild Game Recipes
chapter 11
Remembering Granny
Epigraph: 1 Timothy 5:9–10, NIV
Remembering Granny
Thank-Yous
About Kay Robertson
Index
Permissions and Acknowledgments
pictureEvery time I think of you—and I think of you often!—I thank God for your lives of free and open access to God, given by Jesus. There’s no end to what has happened in you—it’s beyond speech, beyond knowledge. The evidence of Christ has been clearly verified in your lives.
—1 Corinthians 1:4–6, The Message
Dedication
I always prayed for my boys to choose girls who would help them get to heaven and have the same lasting love as their dad and me. I will say that they chose wisely. I dedicate this book to my sweet daughters-in-law, who love, honor, and respect my boys.
To Lisa—thank you for your servant heart. You work harder than anyone I know, and no job is beneath you. I love how you adore Alan and treat Phil and me with such respect. Your example of standing strong and being willing to do the hard things in order to grow in the Lord makes us all better people.
To Missy—I knew Jase was looking for a mate who loved the Lord more than anything. Thank you for being exactly who Jase needs, for literally putting a song in my heart with your beautiful voice, and for sharing Jase’s goal of getting your children, first, and then the rest of the world to heaven.
To Korie—Willie never did lack attention from the girls, but a very special girl got his heart for life. Your warm, loving nature makes you a joy to be around. You never act ugly and always treat others with love and respect. Thank you for holding Willie up, for standing beside him in business, and for being the kind of mom every kid dreams of having.
To Jessica—the one who stole the heart of my youngest son, thank you for keeping us all young. Your energetic spirit and love for people challenges us to live life with joy and confidence. You adore Jep as much as I do, and I love you for that.
Thank you all for the gift of your friendship, which no amount of money will buy! I love you all.
Pray for us. We have no doubts about what we’re doing or why, but it’s hard going and we need your prayers. All we care about is living well before God.
—Hebrews 13:20–22, The Message
pictureDear Friends
Well, dreams do come true! I’ve always wanted to write a cookbook and open a restaurant. Now one of those dreams is coming true. I’m still waiting on the restaurant, but at my age, I’m good with just cooking for my family. I do want to thank you for buying my cookbook. It means so much to me.
I’ve always loved to cook. I learned while watching my grandmother cook and care for our family. As a child, shelling peas and husking corn were two of my favorite activities—mainly because those were the times when I got to sit and talk to my Nanny. My first memories of food were about getting closer to my family. I believe that’s why I love cooking so much. Cooking is so much more than just putting food together in a way that people will eat it. We know from all the fast-food chains that people will pretty much eat anything prepared for them. But real cooking involves putting time and effort into food preparation for one reason only—because you love the ones you’re going to sit down and eat with.
To this day, when my family comes to visit, it’s likely they will all be in the kitchen surrounding me while I stir a pot or roll out a piecrust. There will be lots of conversation and plenty of laughter. Later we’ll crowd around our kitchen table, say grace, and enjoy the food and fellowship. If your family has gotten away from this habit, I would encourage you to begin today to sit down together for a meal at some point in the day. I know you’re all busy and may not be able to do this every day, but when you can, do it. Your family will be blessed by this simple action.
With this cookbook, I am not saying I am the greatest cook or the most experienced cook, but I am saying I’m a good cook with lots of experience in cooking for family. In this cookbook, you’ll find recipes each of my family members love as well as some old favorites. I hope you enjoy reading it and cooking from it.
May God bless you and your family.
—Miss Kay
pictureCast-Iron Skillet
For most of my recipes, I use a cast-iron skillet or cast-iron Dutch oven. This is how I learned to cook, so of course I think it’s the best. In our earliest colonial days, the cast-iron skillet was used because modern stoves hadn’t been invented. Entire meals were cooked in cast-iron pots. The pots needed to be hung over a fire, so they had a handle, or just stood in the fire on legs. After modern stoves came into use, the legs came off and other types of handles were added. These days, cast iron can be bought preseasoned, which means it’s ready for use. If a skillet isn’t preseasoned, seasoning it is essential.
Seasoning is the process of treating the surface of a cast-iron skillet so your food won’t stick and your skillet won’t rust. Seasoning is done by applying a thin layer of oil and then heating the skillet. I’m going to quickly tell you how it’s done. First, you should wash and thoroughly dry your pan. Then coat it inside and out with any cooking oil. Don’t forget the lid and outside of the pot. Next, put the skillet in the oven and heat it at 300°F for about 30 minutes or at 200°F for 2 to 3 hours. Let it cool to room temperature while in the oven, then repeat the process three or four times. Your skillet will now be ready for all these delicious recipes. Be sure to thoroughly dry your skillet and spray it with cooking spray or oil after each use.
I love cast iron because it heats up quickly and distributes heat more evenly than other cookware materials. You can use it on top of the stove or in the oven. And it can be used for quick frying or slow cooking. At one point in American history, cast iron was considered part of a woman’s dowry. Well, I didn’t come with cast iron, but I sure learned how to use it and love it. I hope you do, too!
picture1.
Cooking for Phil
pictureWe got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout.
—June Carter Cash
Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church—a love marked by giving, not getting. Christ’s love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything he does and says is designed to bring the best out of her, dressing her in dazzling white silk, radiant with holiness. And that is how husbands ought to love their wives. They’re really doing themselves a favor—since they’re already one
in marriage.
—Ephesians 5:28, The Message
Phil’s Favorite Recipes
Pork & Chicken Chow Mein
Pecan Pie
Chocolate Pie
Swiss Steak & Sautéed Mushrooms
Egg Custard Pie
Red & Green Fruit Salad
Fried Round Steak & White Sauce
Pinto Beans & Sausage
Cheesy Corn Casserole
Phil’s Famous Pralines
pictureTurnip Greens, Fried Chicken, & Gravy
One day, when we were first married, I had gotten a mess of turnip greens and really didn’t know what to do with them. I did figure they had to be washed, so I rinsed them off and threw them in a pot to boil. Later that night Phil came in the kitchen, took the lid off the greens, and chomped down a big bite. His face looked a little odd. Then he said, Did you add sugar to the greens?
I said no. He looked down in the pot, then looked at me with another odd look and said, How many times did you rinse them?
I said, Once.
He calmly put the lid back on the greens and just said, Dirt.
I didn’t know that turnips greens had to be washed over and over again to get the dirt out. Apparently Phil did.
We’ve come a long way in our forty-plus years of marriage. This picture was taken in 1969, when Phil had just graduated from college.
Another time I was so excited to cook some chicken and gravy for my hungry man. In those days, you didn’t buy chickens all cut up in nice pieces; you had to do that yourself. No one had ever given me a cutting lesson, so I got that whole chicken and cut and cut. Phil said it was so hacked up he didn’t know what part was what. That might not have been so bad if it wasn’t for the gravy that was intended to cover it up. Somehow I got the amounts mixed up and added more flour and less water than was supposed to be mixed together. That gravy looked more like brown custard than it did gravy.
pictureWe love getting our big family together. Just after we took this photo, the kids ran to the swings and the adults sat around and talked. Even a photo shoot can be fun!
These stories are two of the many that we have laughed at when we remember our early years of marriage. Neither one of us was perfect then, nor are we now. Many times young people get confused, thinking they can find the perfect
mate. I want you to know that perfect
people don’t exist. I married Phil when I was sixteen, which was young to marry even for the 1960s, when the average marrying age was around twenty. Marrying that young is not something I would ever recommend, but I do know this: marriage isn’t