“A lot of people are calling me wanting to get one of my cookbooks. I had a friend call this morning and said she wanted one. It’s an odd feeling, but I enjoy it,” Skeens tells TODAY.
“I sat down and picked out like 100 of my favorite recipes,” Skeens says, adding that in working with her publisher, 83 Press, an imprint of Hoffman Media, collaboration was the name of the game. “We had to make sure to get it all exactly the way we wanted. It took two or three months altogether but it was worth it, though. I think I think it turned out good.”
“I had some recipes handwritten, some given to me from friends or family, and some of them actually — like my coleslaw — I’m one of these cooks that don’t measure everything, you know?” she says. “I had to actually sit down and formulate a recipe because you can’t say in a cookbook ‘put a dab of this or a dash of that.’ So I had to work on that a little bit.”
“I write poems all the time … I wrote about when my son passed away, a poem that was just for him and it’s in there with his picture,” Skeens says about her son, Frank Skeens Jr., who died nearly a decade ago. A poem titled “In Loving Memory of Our Son” sits on page 85 of the book. “It’s not just recipes — it’s like my life story in there and I love that. It’s something that I can leave to my kids and grandkids, you know?”“It’s been a hard journey, but the doctors say I’m doing great.
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