"I was single until thirty-seven," says Jackie Lucas-Buck, "and my husband was single until thirty-nine. Now that we are married, what should we do?" The answer the author found was to celebrate marriage and how joyous it is with God as our head and foundationand to celebrate with breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Enjoy the delicious, easy recipes in this powerful little book. Youll find New Orleans specialties like red beans and rice, gumbo, jambalaya, and Creole shrimp, along with old favorites like carrot pie, fried green tomatoes, buttermilk trout, and mommas lemon pie. So sit back, relax, and enjoy cooking (and marriage!) from this wonderful, spirit-filled cookbook.

About the Author

Jackie Lucas-Buck and her husband, Andre, and baby son, Darius, live in Louisiana. She received her masters degree as a Family Nurse Practitioner in June of 2001 from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. She received her bachelors degree in Nursing from Dilliard University of New Orleans, Louisiana sixteen years ago. She presently works with her brother and sister-in-law in their doctors office as a manager. After living in Chicago, Illinois for over ten years, she married Andre and moved south in April of 2001. She is very active in her local community and church. She is a breast-feeding educator and a CPR instructor. In her "spare time," she writes for a nursing magazine and loves to reminisce with her husband, family, and friends about the old days.