Miz Helen's Kitchen Table

Our family and friends always gathered around the Kitchen Table to enjoy good food and fellowship.

For years, Helen Adams, known to family and friends as Miz Helen, has been the cook everyone hopes to sit beside at supper. Miz Helen's Kitchen Table gathers more than 140 of her favorite recipes, the ones her family asks for again and again, along with the stories of where they came from.

You'll find Tex-Mex dishes she learned to cook while living in El Paso, including her stacked enchiladas and the Caldillo recipe given to her by Jimmy of Jimmy's Gas House in El Paso. There are tea time treats like buttermilk scones and cucumber tea sandwiches, and plenty of good Texas home cooking: barbecued brisket, chicken and dumplings, corn bread, fruit cobbler and banana pudding.

The recipes are arranged the way a home cook thinks: appetizers, beverages, breads, cookies, desserts, entrees, vegetables, pasta, poultry, salads, soups, tea time and Tex-Mex, with a full index in the back.

First published in 2010 and dedicated to her grandmother Clara Mae Barker, a true Texas pioneer lady and a wonderful cook, this second edition brings Miz Helen's cookbook back in a lasting hardcover, ready to be used, shared and passed down.

Pull up a chair. There's always room at the table.