Measure with Your Heart: Southern Home Cooking to Feed Your Family and Soul: A Cookbook

100 free-spirited, comforting recipes for Southern-style dishes made with love from the social media icon behind LilyLouTay

Hannah Taylor is a culinary creator from Georgia known for her Southern charm, down-to-earth personality, and carefree "measure with your heart" cooking content. When Hannah began sharing her experimental cooking projects and snippets of her small-town life online, her platform exploded with support for her big-hearted spirit and off-the-cuff style, and her debut cookbook embraces this playful side of cooking.

Measure with Your Heart is filled with Hannah's twists on classic Southern cooking, with an emphasis on making everything from scratch so you know exactly what's in it. Try your hand at Hannah's homemade versions of kitchen staples like Vanilla Extract or Beef Bone Broth. Bring some warmth to your dinner table with mains like Finger Lickin' Fried Chicken, Butternut Squash Casserole, and Ham Hock Lima Bean Stew. Serve up Aunt Teisha's Cowboy Caviar or Mini Pizza Pops at your next gathering alongside a Strawberry Sip N' Spritz.

Featuring 120 gorgeous photographs and 100 mouthwatering recipes, Measure with Your Heart has ideas for sweet and savory breakfasts, lunches, and dinners, as well as drinks, appetizers, and, for parents reading, even snacks for your kids (and pups!)--so get in the kitchen and try things out. If you totally mess up, even better! For Hannah, home cooking is not about being perfect--it's about having fun and nourishing the ones you love.

Author: Hannah Taylor
Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers
Published: 10/21/2025
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.72lbs
Size: 10.17h x 8.36w x 0.99d
ISBN: 9780593800645


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/01/2025 pg. 91

About the Author
Hannah Taylor is the fast-growing culinary creator known on TikTok and Instagram as "LilyLouTay." She is a proud mother of three and prioritizes her family while working as a creator, elopement wedding photographer, and entrepreneur.