Atlanta Thrift Finds #1 ~ Paula Deen Celebrates

Paula Deen Celebrates, published in 2006. This is the 5th cookbook published by Paula and was probably printed to coincide with her new show on the Food Network - Paula's Party - as they both occurred during the same year. There are menus and recipes for assorted holidays. Besides the usual suspects; birthdays, anniversaries, New Year's Eve, Christmas, Valentine's Day and Easter, a few unusual holidays are thrown in for good measure. There's the Mardi Gras party with a recipe for King Cake and the Elvis birthday which features a Peanut Butter Gooey Butter Cake and the traditional Fried Peanut Butter and Banana sandwich. The most glaring inclusion is for a Krispy Kreme Bread Pudding with Rum sauce (Mardi Gras celebration) and yes Krispy Kreme doughnuts are utilized in lieu of  the usual French bread. The doughnuts are doused with a can of sweetened condensed milk, canned fruit cocktail and raisins.  I guess the Rum Sauce is to make you forget the sugar coma you lapse into after eating a few bites!