Home Cooking With Trisha Yearwood

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Audra Lowe: In here Trish Yearwood is best known for belting out country music hits
but recently she’s been showing off her domestic side in the kitchen with
not one but 2 hit cookbooks. Trisha’s bringing a little bit of country to the
New York’s Food and Wine Festival and that is where Lesley caught up
with the star.

Lesley Nagy: We know you so well as a country music star what started your passion for
cooking?

Trisha Yearwood: I learned to cook when I left home for college because my mom is
a great cook and I missed her food when I left home and so its always
been something I have really loved to do and even though I traveled the
world and I’ve been everywhere when I’m home I cooked and it’s
something that I really enjoy doing.

Lesley: Home is in Oklahoma with hubby Garth Brooks and his three daughters.
Trish may lead a music star life but when she’s cooking she’s completely
down to earth.

Do you ever sing when you cook?

Trisha: Not really, not so much. I kind those are kind of separate things.

For the cookbook the first one was really just born out of something that I
love to do and bought my mom and my sister and putting all recipes in one
place never expecting to be a New York Times Bestseller you know so
then there was second book and it is done in the first book so here I am
sort of getting the music is the thing that I wanted to use since I was a little
kid and cooking is a passion of mine so I feel really lucky because I’m
getting to do things that I really love to do.

Lesley: How far do you go, do you grow your own veggies, do you raise chickens
at all on your ranch in Oklahoma?

Trisha: No, we don’t have a garden. We live on kind of there’s a lot of rock and so
it’s a challenge something that I want to do but also a garden no point
intended you have to tend the garden and when we travel enough that its
hard to do at this point but that’s not really what I love to do. I grew up on
a farm we raised our own cows and pigs and chickens and we had our own
garden and canned and all that so I grew up doing that and I would like to
do that again but not at this point we’re not doing that.

Lesley: Do you make meal time a family affair?

Trisha: Yes as much as we can. You know we don’t have a home cooked meal
every single night because we have soccer school and all kinds of stuff
going on but we try to sit down as a family for nights a week and have a
meal at the table together.

Lesley: Just like a typical family.

Trisha: Exactly we are.

Lesley: You have 12 hit albums are you going to do another?

Trisha: Yeah definitely I’m listening to the songs right now so I’ll be in the studio
too so at least the music is going with the food.

Lesley: Now that would be number 13 wouldn’t that be unlucky?

Trisha: Nah it will be good.

Audra: Thanks Lesley she’s a busy lady well Trisha says yes she’ll be
collaborating with Garth in the future but that won’t happen they say until
their youngest finishes high school.