The Thing About Leftovers

New Family Recipe Needed

Fizzy is a good Southern girl who's been taught not to make a fuss or say anything that might hurt other people's feelings.  But this is becoming difficult since her parents' divorce.  Wary of her too perfect stepmom and her mom's neat-freak boyfriend, Fizzy often feels like she might explode over all their new rules.

Working to win the Southern Living Cook-Off provides Fizzy with a much-needed distraction.  But some cooking analogies are hard to face, lie the thing about leftover: nobody's ever excited over them-and she's become the "leftover" kid from a marriage that both parents want to forget.

But Fizzy hopes that with the right recipe and the right ingredients, she can prove leftovers can be delicious.