By: Taryn Pire| Dec. 1, 2020
[I can personally vouch for most of these. If you want yummy eating, and not too complicated, these recipes are the way to go.]
You may know Jocelyn Delk Adams, food blogger and author of the award-winning Grandbaby Cakes: Modern Recipes, Vintage Charm, Soulful Memories, for her stunning desserts. But it turns out the baker extraordinaire has a *ton* of savory, traditional Southern recipes up her sleeve too, including comfort food classics like baked mac and cheese, cornbread and candied sweet potatoes. Here are her most essential soul food recipes, along with a few favorites of ours that are sitting firmly on our to-cook list.
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The cornbread, candied sweets and fried catfish will be finding their way to my table today. The grits are in regular rotation, although I don’t use any water, just milk, and cream. My fried fish po’boy uses oysters. And that’s my gumbo, without okra if absolutely necessary (Someone doesn’t like okra). I use Lyle’s Golden Syrup instead of corn syrup in my pecan pie and real unsalted butter, usually one made locally or Land O’Lakes European Style.I bake my egg custard pie (not chess pie, which has cornmeal) sometimes as just egg custard, without a crust, and set in a water bath. I make peach cobbler with peach nectar (if I have any) which I add to the syrup from canned peaches, or by itself if using fresh peaches.
Read more HERE. Good cooking!