About the Cook!

Hi!

Thanks for stopping by. My name is Lin and I am the cook behind soulfoodandsoutherncooking.com. I have been passionate about cooking soul food for as long as I can remember. Nothing excites me more than cooking up a much appreciated home cooked meal for family and friends.

My Journey Here

The big question I get asked all the time is "Why did you start a recipe website?". Well my story is long, but I will give you the condensed version of why I decided to share my passion with you.

My family and close friends have always loved my ability to create delicious home cooked meals. For me the ability to cook was not inherited. It was grown out of love. Over the years, I was coached in the art of cookery by some of the best cooks. Nana, grandma, mama, papa and auntie all provided a helping hand in my education.

Like most southern black cooks, I learned to cook by taste. Gathering up the main ingredients for any recipe is easy, the hardest part of cooking by taste is adding a pinch of this and a little bite of that to please everybody.

The recipes I learned to cook from were permanently etched into the minds of my family members. My family always called me the brains for a good reason. I soon learned to cheat the process by making mental notes as I cooked.

Later on I transferred this invaluable information which I had committed to memory to paper form. What a great decision I had made. As my aging family began to pass, they took their treasured family recipes to their grave.

So I took the cooking knowledge I had transcribed and went out into the world. I joined the military and my immediate family increased a hundredfold.

Now I had the opportunity to serve up creative chow to people from all ethnic groups, not just southern blacks. To my surprise everyone loved my soul food and southern cooking. I can easily say that my food was thoroughly taste tested by a variety of people with different cravings.

An Idea Is Born

Okay, now I am at the point where my cooking reputation preceded me. I receive too many food requests from family, friends and associates.

It seems as if everyone wanted a piece of the pie or whatever I cooked that appealed to their taste. I tried to oblige but soon came to the realization that I didn't have enough time to satisfy my family request let along to fill orders for friends.

As I burned out from trying to fill family request, I decided to brainstorm ideas. How could I help everybody with minimal effort?

My wife mentioned that my recipes were so simple that I should just write out the cooking instructions and pass them along. This worked fine for a while but I was soon overwhelmed with request.

My wife then recommended that I start a personal web site and give access to everybody. Better yet she stated that my cooking should be shared with the whole world. That is how this web site came about.

A Hidden Treasure Is Discovered

Okay now I had a mission, to establish a recipe site to share my recipes with the entire world. Sound simple but it really took some effort and commitment.

The biggest hurdle I had to confront was the technical aspect of designing and building a website. After some initial research I became discourage and thought about giving up the process.

It seemed that the learning curve for building a functional web site, that would be found by search engines was in the too hard to do category. Why would I want to be found by search engines?

Search engines send free traffic to your web site. I really needed this free traffic to come to my recipe site. This way I could get my recipes out to the world. I bet you probably found this site using a search engine.

Next, I attempted to find a suitable web hosting solution for building a web site, not for one, two or three weeks, but for several months.

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In fact, within just 14 days I had a couple of pages uploaded to the web and was already receiving free traffic from search engines.

Now I'm Enjoying The Fruits of My Labor

The best part of my journey began after I stumbled across Site Build It! (SBI), not only was I able to start a successful web site, I was also able to turn my passion for cooking into passive income.

What's passive income you ask? The type of income that over time you have to work less for but the earnings grow exponentially. This is made possible by the ever growing amount of free traffic that visits my website.

I just followed the SBI system and now I receive monthly income from advertising with Google and Affiliate sites.

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Wishing you all the best!

Lin