Soul Food Recipes Blog

Hello and thank you for stopping by the soul food recipes blog. This blog is a tribute to cooks of the past, present, and future who provided nourishment when we were hungry aways cooking delicious meals from the heart and soul. These same cooks passed down their knowledge from generation to generation and even inspired many of us to taking up cooking.

The blog is also dedicated to foodies like YOU who love good old-fashioned home cooking like Grandma used to make. But somehow over the years you have misplaced or lost all this precious recipes. No worries you will find all those familiar recipes of the past here.

Here you'll find hundreds of easy-to-prepare traditional soul food recipe that are both real and authentic. All of these recipes are waiting for you to try out. We would like to take you by the hand and teach you how to make some really amazing homemade meals all from the comforts of your home kitchen.

We post new recipes to the blog and website often. So please come back to visit us from time to time to see all the new recipes we post each week. Look throughout the list of our recently posted soul food recipes below.

Soul Food Dessert Recipes - Taste Like Grandma's

Carrot Cake

Some all-time favorites soul food dessert recipes including peach cobbler, sweet potato pie, pecan pie, red velvet cake, banana pudding, lemon pie, and more.

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Tasty Pork Recipes

Grilled Pork Chops

Print our collection of the most popular and most requested pork recipes. Use these recipes to cook up good dishes in your kitchen.

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Chicken Recipes - Secrets to Cooking Perfect Chicken

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A collection of good tasting chicken recipes. Try our recipes for smothered, fried, barbecue and baked chicken.

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Soul Food Favorite Side Dishes

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Don't get caught hosting a barbecue, picnic, fish fry, party or social function without serving up some of the all time favorite side dishes.

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Cajun and Creole Cooking Recipes | Cajun Food

A collection of cajun and creole cooking recipes. Recipes for jambalaya, red beans and rice, blackened chicken, and dirty rice.

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15 Magnificent Modern Soul Food Recipes - Neo Soul Foods

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These 15 modern soul food recipes are refined versions of Grandmas traditional soul food favorites.

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How to Make Roux - Soul Food and Southern Cooking

A recipe for anyone looking to know how to make roux. Start with equal parts of butter and flour, then...

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Smothered Cooking {How To Cook Smothered Chicken, Steaks, Pork Chops}

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Smothered Cooking. Learn how to make smothered pork chops, smothered chicken, smothered steak, and smothered southern turkey wings.

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Easy Crock Pot Recipes

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Our easy crock pot recipes are for busy cooks who want to serve their family delicious meals.

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Sweet Cake Recipes [Carrot, Chocolate, Pound, and Red Velvet]

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Try our free homemade cake recipes including chocolate cake, pound cake, carrot cake and red velvet cake. All cakes are old fashioned and made from scratch.

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10 Healthy Smoothie Recipes

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Avoid caffeine, junk food, and sugar with these 10 Healthy Smoothie Recipes

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Savory Soup Recipes for Home Cooks

Baked Potato Soup

Cook a delicious homemade meal, with these soup recipes. Once you have gone homemade, it is hard to go back to canned soup.

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Fish and Seafood Recipes & Dishes

Pan Fried Tilapia

See how easy it is to prepare your favorite fish and seafood recipes.

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The Best Beef Recipes - My Favorite Dinner Ideas For Beef

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Download or print our best main dish and entree beef recipes for dinner meals or outdoor barbecue cookouts.

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How To Make Gravy - Homemade Gravy Taste Great

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Are you looking to create a mouthwatering smothered pork chop and chicken meal? If you answered yes, you must know how to make gravy.

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Simple Vegetable Recipes & Dishes

Creamed Corn

Try our soul food vegetable recipes prepared to taste just like Grandma's.

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Side Dish For Chicken And Dumplings Dinner

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What is the best side dish for chicken and dumplings dinner? Here are the best foods to serve with your chicken and dumplings. Enjoy!

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Southern Style Potato Salad Recipe

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This southern potato salad is great for barbecues and picnics or serves as a side item with your next soul food meal. This recipe is really easy to prepare.

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Stuffed Bell Pepper Recipe - Oven Baked Perfection

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This is a traditional stuffed bell pepper recipe with bell peppers and beef baked in tomato sauce.

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Homemade Mashed Potato Recipe

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A mashed potato recipe doesn't get any simpler than this. This recipe calls for butter, milk, pepper, potatoes and salt.

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Peach Cobbler Recipe For Soul Food Cooks - Quick and Easy

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This delicious peach cobbler dessert recipe will satisfy your cravings. The recipe is so simple that a kid could easily prepare this dessert.

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Candied Yams Recipe

Candied Yams

This boiled candied yams recipe produces moist and well glazed yams for your Holiday or Sunday dinner feast.

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Southern Collard Greens - Taste Like Grandma's Greens

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People love this traditional southern style collard greens recipe. This is a great recipe to complete your meal.

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Salmon Croquette Recipe - Quick and Easy Seafood Recipe

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Cooking canned salmon is simple with this quick and easy salmon croquette recipe. Delicious and easy to prepare salmon patties.

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Soul Food Meat Recipes for Chicken, Beef, Pork, Fish and Seafood

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Come learn how to prepare delicious chicken, beef, pork, fish and seafood meat recipes...southern style.

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Traditional Homemade Sweet Potato Pie Recipe

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Sweet potato pie recipe - go ahead and try this easy to make southern dessert favorite. You won't disappointed, you'll be pleasantly surprised.

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Fried Chicken Gizzards Recipe [How to Cook Fried Gizzards]

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Here's how to cook up some great tasting fried chicken gizzards. I lived on fried chicken gizzards while I completed college.

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List of Foods That Cause Gas - 20 Top Gassy Foods List

Top 20 list of foods that cause gas. What to do if you are eating these gassy foods.

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Homemade Corn Bread Dressing Recipe

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This corn bread dressing recipe beats stuffing any day of the week. This dressing recipe is a must have for any holiday that you serve turkey, ham, or prime rib.

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Soul Food Chitterlings Recipe - How to Clean and Cook Chitlins

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Red bucket old-fashioned chitterlings recipe. Chitterlings is one of those recipes that you have to try for a true soul food experience.

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Soul Food Dinner Favorites That You Can Cook Today

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Soul food dinner and menu ideas for all of your favorite southern country foods. Cook one of these delicious mouthwartering meals for dinner today!

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Seafood Boil Recipe - Seafood Lover's Shrimp and Crab Boil

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Enjoy this seafood boil recipe. This is a family gathering favorite during crab and shrimp season. Frozen crab and shrimp can be used for your year-round enjoyment.

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Pork Neck Bones Recipe - How to Cook Neckbones That Taste Great

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Want some lip-smacking neck bones and rice? If so, I have just the recipe for you. This recipe works well for pork neck bones and beef neckbones too.

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Homemade Chicken And Dumplings - Cooked to Taste Like Grandma's

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Try this old fashioned chicken and dumplings recipe. Learn to cook dumplings from scratch with this easy-to-follow chicken recipe.

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Pigs Feet Recipe - Simple and Easy Recipe, With Great Taste

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This pigs feet recipe is an old fashioned soul food favorite. The meat is not fat as expected, containing less fat and more protein than country-style pork ribs.

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Baked Macaroni And Cheese Recipe

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Our quick and easy recipe for baked macaroni and cheese. A soul food recipe favorite!

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Stuffed Cornish Hen Recipe

Baked Cornish Hens

This special occasion stuffed cornish hen recipe works well for thanksgiving and sunday dinner.

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Big Mamas Recipes - Soul Food Recipes

Big Mama's Recipes

A large collection of big mamas recipes. You can learn to cook like Grandma and Big Mama with these recipes.

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25 Authentic Soul Food Recipes - Real Recipes For Cooks

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View our collection of 25 real authentic soul food recipes for home cooks who want to prepare great dinner meals.

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Old Fashioned Homemade Apple Cobbler Recipe

My go to recipe for sweet and delicious homemade apple cobbler prepared the old fashioned way.

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How to Make Applesauce - The Easiest Applesauce You'll Ever Makr

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How to make apple sauce. Use this for step recipe to easily make the best homemade apple sauce you've ever tasted.

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Best Cheap Soup Recipes for a Crowd

Need to feed a bunch of hungry people, then these soup recipes for a crowd are sure to please and satisfy.

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The Secret to Making Breakfast Sausage Patties at Home

My family secret to making breakfast sausage patties. Serve these delicious homemade pork sausage patties with the breakfast of your choice.

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Quick and Easy Spaghetti Recipe

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In under 20 minutes you can prepare a delicious spaghetti meal with this quick and easy spaghetti recipe.

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17 Classic Southern Recipes [Voted Best of Southern Cooking]

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Voted 17 of the BEST southern recipes. You can make these recipes yourself and they taste better than Grandma's cooking--Grandma won't mind.

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Soul Food Dinner Ideas

Wondering what to cook? Here are our top soul food dinner ideas. Use these to prepare delicious meals.

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15 Best Soul Food Dishes To Eat | Soul Food and Southern Cooking

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See our list of the 15 best soul food dishes and recipes for you to cook delicious meals at home.

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Baked Pigs Feet Recipe - Southern Style Soul Food

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A southern style soul food baked pigs feet recipe. Slow cook them until almost tender then oven bake to perfection.

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How to Cook Turkey Butts | Turkey Tails

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How to cook turkey butts also called turkey tails.

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