68 one-pot Southern comfort recipes, written the way I actually cook them.
Don't Worry, I Got You is the SelfMadeCook cookbook: 68 one-pot Southern comfort recipes with a photo of every dish, delivered instantly as a PDF and EPUB (235 pages), plus extras not on the website — four Kitchen School essays, a month of dinner plans with one-run grocery lists, and reference tables. It's $19.99 (a 10% checkout code is applied automatically from this page); every recipe in it is also free on the site, so the book is for readers who want it as one organized, printable, offline download instead of hunting recipes page by page.
Don't Worry, I Got You — the complete SelfMadeCook collection. PDF + EPUB, 235 pages, a photo of every dish. Instant download, yours forever.
Get the cookbook — $19.99 →Code SITE10 takes 10% off at checkout (applied by that link).
Instant download, yours forever. Because it's a digital file — and every recipe is free to read on this site first — the books are non-refundable. Full terms.
Or start smaller — The No-Pork Kitchen (24 recipes) or Weeknight One-Pot Favorites (20 recipes), $5.99 each.
What's inside
Smothered & Southern
16 recipes
Smothered Chicken & Rice
Cajun Gumbo
Honey Garlic ChickenComfort Pastas
11 recipes
Stovetop Lasagna
Cheesesteak Tortellini
Baked SpaghettiCrowd Food
25 recipes
Southwest Egg Rolls
Mac-Stuffed Wings
Crispy Taco FriesSkillet Suppers
16 recipes
Lemon Garlic Chicken
Marry Me Chicken
Crab Cake ScampiAnd the extras that make it a book:
- Curtis's Kitchen School — the four Kitchen Notes essays (the pan I cook everything in, the roux without fear, my one-pot weeknight rotation, and my Cajun pantry), all together in one place.
- A Month of Dinners — four weekly meal plans, each with a single merged grocery list you can shop from in one run.
- The reference back matter — pantry staples ranked by how many recipes use them, the substitution table from my videos, and an index by main ingredient.
- One organized, printable, offline book — four themed chapters with a visual index, no login, no connection needed.
Look inside
Real pages from the book you'll download — not mockups.
Not sure yet? Cook one from the site tonight.
Every recipe I publish is written out free on this site — smothered chicken & rice, the real-deal gumbo, the no-oven lasagna, Marry Me Chicken, the southwest egg rolls. Make one; if my way of writing recipes works for you, all 68 are in the book, with photos, printable and ad-free.
Browse every recipe →This book is for you if…
- You watch cooking videos but forget the steps by the time you get to the stove.
- You want Southern comfort food on a Tuesday without two hours of cleanup.
- You cook for a family, a crowd, or just yourself — and want meals that actually taste like something.
- You're not a trained chef and don't want a cookbook that talks down to you.
It's not for you if…
- You're after restaurant-plated, tweezers-and-microgreens cuisine.
- You're strictly vegetarian — most of these recipes center protein.
- You need precise nutritional data — these are home recipes; macros aren't tracked.
From my kitchen
This book exists because you asked for it. Three years ago I posted a short video of smothered chicken and rice that's now been watched over half a million times — and the same comment kept showing up under it, and under the lasagna, and under the gumbo: where's the written recipe? So here they are. The dishes that built this channel, all in one place, written the way I cook them: one pot whenever we can get away with it, every step one action, and my tips from the video at the end of every recipe. — Curtis
Questions
What exactly do I get?
Two files, delivered instantly by Gumroad: a PDF (prints clean, reads anywhere) and an EPUB (for e-readers). 235 pages, 68 recipes, yours forever.
Aren't these recipes free on your website?
Yes — every recipe in this book is free on this site, and that's not changing. The book is for people who want it as one organized thing: four themed chapters, a photo of every dish, printable and offline, plus the extras — the Kitchen School essays gathered in one place, the month of meal plans with grocery lists (that one is book-only), and the reference tables. If the website already does everything you need, keep using it. I got you either way.
Will it work on my phone?
Yes. The PDF opens on anything; the EPUB reflows nicely on phones and e-readers.
Can I print it?
Yes — the PDF is laid out to print clean, whole book or one recipe at a time.
Do I get future updates to the book?
Yes. When this book grows — new sections, new recipes, new editions — the updated files land in your Gumroad library automatically. Buy it once; the book keeps growing.
Shorter books, smaller price
If the full collection is more than you need, there are two smaller books — same recipes, same way of writing them down, $5.99 each.
The No-Pork Kitchen
24 recipes · 73 pages · $5.99
Twenty-four recipes with no pork in any of them — chicken, seafood, rice and pasta. No alcohol either, and the two beef recipes are tagged in the contents so you can skip them.
Weeknight One-Pot Favorites
20 recipes · 63 pages · $5.99
The twenty dishes people cook the most — gumbo, stovetop lasagna, Marry Me Chicken, red beans & rice. Dinner without a sink full of pans.
Or get everything in one purchase
All four books together for $24.95 — a real 22% off the $31.97 you'd pay for the three books that sell on their own (the Vault never has).
The Whole Shelf
4 books · 419 pages · $24.95
All four books, one purchase — the Complete Collection (PDF + EPUB), both lite cuts, and the SelfMadeCook Vault's 9 recipes and 4 meal plans, PDF-only. $19.99 + $5.99 + $5.99 = $31.97 for the three that sell on their own — the Vault never has — and this bundle is $24.95. Buy once — the vault's site access and the next mini book join at no extra charge when they land.
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68 recipes. About 29¢ each.
One pot at a time — don't worry, I got you.
Get the cookbook — $19.99 →Code SITE10 takes 10% off at checkout (applied by that link).
Instant download, yours forever. Because it's a digital file — and every recipe is free to read on this site first — the books are non-refundable. Full terms.
Or start smaller — The No-Pork Kitchen (24 recipes) or Weeknight One-Pot Favorites (20 recipes), $5.99 each.