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!