The Books:
Magnolia Table. Volumes One, Two, and Three. Recipes for gathering, for feeding the ones you love, for leftovers that taste better on day two, and biscuits that might just save your life. Southern roots, family favorites, and everything laced with butter and sentiment.

Joanna Gaines has built a lifestyle empire out of shiplap, stories, and scratch-made meals. Her cookbooks are more than recipes. They’re permission to slow down, gather close, and serve grace on mismatched dishes.

The Contender:
Gulf Coast home cook. Recovering middle school teacher. Currently navigating graduate school, grief, and the leftovers in my fridge. I am someone who believes that food is theology and a well-set table is a kind of hope.

No test kitchen. No film crew. Just one woman, one wooden spoon, and a family of taste-testers who did not sign up for this.

The Plan:
Three cookbooks. Countless grocery runs. One life—mine—served up with a side of Magnolia.

How far will it go? How many casseroles can one woman make before her family revolts?

We can only whisk. And stir. And wait…

The Jeanie Jo & Joanna Project. 457 recipes. 78 weeks.

Beginning July 4th!

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