Soul Food Recipes
Soul Food Recipes
What's the essence of a true soul food feast? Well, everyone and their mama (and especially their mama!) has their own opinion, but we just love the honest, down-home dishes that have been passed along through the generations. Soul food is rooted in the cooking done by poor folks making the most of meager ingredients, and it's since flourished into a cuisine that's both vibrant and soothing, humble and grand, and above all, soul-satisfying. We're sharing our favorite versions of collards, dumplings, chitterlings, red velvet cake and plenty of other family classics, and we'd be much obliged if you'd do the same.
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Smothered Chicken and Chops
A sea of savory gravy makes a sumptuous flavor bath for chicken and pork alike.
- Soul Smothered Chicken
- Smothered Pork Chops & Collard Greens
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Oxtail Soup and Stew
From this humble cut comes just the most tender, succulent meat imaginable. Simmered for hours, the bones just slump to jelly, making for incredibly enticing soups and stews.
- Oxtail Soup
- Braised Oxtail Stew
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BBQ Ribs
Stack up extra napkins when you're serving these finger-lickin' luscious ribs, cooked 'til the meat's just flopping off the bone.
- First Timer Ribs
- Molasses Mustard Baked Beans with Ribs
- Slow Cooker Barbecue Ribs
- Ribs & Chow Chow
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Collard Greens
What's the best part of cooking up a mess o' greens -- the heady scent of long-simmering hamhocks, or lapping up the pot likker after?
- Kickin' Collard Greens
- Tasty Collard Greens
- Smothered Pork Chops & Collard Greens
- Skate BBQ & Collard Greens
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Beans and Rice
Hearty, humble beans and rice are the backbone of this Creole staple. Keep extra hot sauce on hand so guests can season accordingly.
- Louisiana Red Beans & Rice
- Carribean Beans & Rice
- Red Rice & Beans
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Fried Catfish
Fried fish is extra delish with a smear of homemade tartar sauce or a crunchy, nutty coating. Thaw frozen fillets in milk to bring back a just-caught flavor.
- Cornmeal Crusted Catfish Goujenettes
- Will's Spicy New Orleans Catfish Fries
- Cajun Pecan-Crusted Catfish
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Okra
Pity the Northern folks who don't know from okra, or turn up their noses at the texture. They're missing out on one of nature's tastiest treats -- or they've just never had it cooked right.
- Stewed Okra & Tomatoes
- Rice & Okra
- Okra & Tomatoes
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Shrimp
Soul food doesn't skimp on the shrimp. Peel & pop 'em or stir 'em into savory stews or creamy grits.
- Russell's Fish Stew
- Charleston Shrimp and Grits
- Shrimp Creole
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Black-Eyed Peas
Some folks eat 'em for luck in the new year. We just think they're awfully tasty.
- Black-Eyed Peas
- Candy's Southern Hoppin' John
- Black-Eyed Pea Dip
- Black-Eyed Peas & Greens
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Recent Comments
speedyneutrino43 10:25:14 AM May 24 2009
I went into a "soul food" restaurant in NYC once and the food was TERRIBLE. All these people knew how to do is open cans. I'm from south Alabama and I KNOW what soul food is supposed to be. If I opened a restaurant in NYC I'd have unfortunate transplanted southerners flocking in from all over. IF I wanted to live in NYC, that is.
surfinron 12:45:53 PM Feb 12 2009
SOUL FOOD IS MADE FROM THE HEART. SO LOVE IT OR JUST LEAVE IT ALONE
surfinron 12:44:07 PM Feb 12 2009
SOUL FOOD IS FROM THE HEART. SO LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT ALONE
timeformusic 08:25:29 AM Jan 30 2009
grandabcd, I agree very strongly with what you said ("Takes me back, WAY back, to another time and place, and I miss it.") I miss it, too. I'm sad for today's youth because chances are, they'll never get to experience what we miss.
timeformusic 08:22:26 AM Jan 30 2009
chazmonka, you're not a dummy. I don't think there's a "story" to go with these comments. I only saw the photos to click through, and I know I'm not a dummy. AOL does this with a number of their articles. You open the page thinking you're going to read something and most times the only thing to read are a bunch of nasty, hateful comments in the message section. Thank goodness there were only a few of those this time around.
grandabcd 08:17:22 AM Jan 30 2009
I grew up on "soul" food, also known as downhome, country cooking where I came from. The receipts mentioned brought back wonderful memories of family gatherings, holidays, and just everyday living. NOTHING on earth can match it, when it comes to food. BTW: I'm from Texas, and I'm white. Good old fashioned home cooking binds the gap between all races, IMHO. Nothing better than a pot of collard greens, a pan of hot cornbread, a platter of southern fried chicken, black eyed peas simmered with okra, and a dish of peach cobbler with homemade ice cream. Takes me back, WAY back, to another time and place, and I miss it.
timeformusic 08:11:36 AM Jan 30 2009
DGarm8, who in the world said anything about giving "all the credit to black women"? If that comment was aimed at roepipster10 because of his/her granny saying that about folks working in the fields, then you could be quite mistaken. My mother and I both worked "in the fields" when I was younger, and we're both quite white.
timeformusic 08:03:42 AM Jan 30 2009
KKaulpapa1, if you're using the Firefox browser and have a mouse with a wheel on it, you can enlarge the page. All you have to do is hold down the "Ctrl" key and turn the wheel forward. Hopefully this will help you with future articles, too.
alfredschrader 05:46:41 AM Jan 30 2009
Email me for Twice Fried Chicken recipe.....alfredschrader@aol.com
kardor1 04:39:12 AM Jan 30 2009
I remember coming to Southern California from the San Joaquin Valley in the early 1960's. I started going to a Unitarian/Universalist church. I kept hearing people talking about soul food. Soul food was verrry big with the relegous liberals in the '60's. Probably had something to do with solidarity. Anyway, all this talk about soul food just whetted my appitite. I REALLY wanted some of that soul food.One evening a bunch of us drove down to South Central Los Angeles (we lived in the San Fernando Valley) in search of some of tthat soul food. Well when it came there was corn bread, greens, ribs, chicken and blackeyed peas. What the hell? This is the stuff I grew up on. It was poor folks food. I was just one generation away from the Joad family. I was pretty unbiased before but this really showed mre that there just ain't that much difference between the races when it counts in the condition of life.
