Long before she struck fame singing in the band Little Big Town, which won its first Grammy Award last month for best country-duo group performance for “Pontoon,” Kimberly Schlapman was the star of a make-believe cooking program. “When I was really small, I would pretend I had my own cooking show,” she says during a stop on the band’s “Tornado” tour. “I would stand at the counter and I had this silly little voice that I would use that was my character on the show when I cooked. Music was my dream as a career, I wanted to be a singer, but that was just a tiny little dream I had.”

Years later, both dreams came true when GAC (Great American Country) TV asked her to host a cooking series. The second season of “Kimberly’s Simply Southern,” which follows her on the band’s tour bus and picks up cooking advice on the road, premieres March 9 at 1 p.m. (Check with your local cable company for the GAC channel number.)