“Apple, peaches, pumpkin pie-i-i.” I had to use that lyric because I love that song. However, no, you read right, I have made an Apple Peach Pear Cobbler and again no, like the song, it is a special treat I have enjoyed since I was a youth. At a certain point in history, not long…
Tag: Old School Soul Food Recipes
Buttered Jelly Cake
Welcome to the place for the best healthy, homemade, holiday dishes. It may be too early to say Season’s Greetings but it’s not too early to get your best Fall desserts of 2021 list compiled. I believe I inherited my sweet tooth directly from my maternal grandfather William Stamps who was known to drink sugar…
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Pan Fried Cornbread
Incredulously, I am nearly speechless. But not enough to leave my white people need to begin to hold white people accountable treatise incomplete. And so we begin Part 2. I left people on Instagram hanging too with respect to making what is sometimes known as Hot Water Cornbread. My paternal side of the family used…
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Citrus Custard Cream Pie
Many years ago, I worked as a VIP flight attendant for 17 different NBA teams, several NFL, NHL and MLB teams as well as some notable figures in the music and film industry which has nothing at all to do with Citrus Custard Cream Pie. The NBA clientele included the Lakers, Spurs, Rockets, Mavericks, Kings,…
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Cheesecake Elegante
African American Heritage Diet desserts are often fruit based or utilitarian, low sugar custard based pies, ice creams or rice puddings. So the fact I used to make Cheesecake Elegante as a kid is perhaps an anomaly. I saw the recipe in a cookbook at around 11 years of age, liked it, thus it became…
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Creamy Cushaw Squash
Indigenous to Africa, squash is a treat that both my Grandmothers truly enjoyed. Cushaw, a slightly sweet winter version is a winner because it is one of the foods my sensitive stomach never resists. Brimming with Vitamins A,B,C and Carotene you won’t go wrong pairing Creamy Cushaw Squash with fish, fowl or lamb. Creamy Cushaw…
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Nana’s Green Beans
The first year I went away to college I came back home for the weekend and prepared some fresh green beans as a side dish for my family. I probably would not remember the encounter if my paternal grandmother Nana, a professional baker and cook in her own right, could not stop raving, saying they…
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Sweet Potato Brulee
My Organic Sweet Potato Pudding is a favorite of friends and family.
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Drop Butter Biscuits
Apparently, September is National Biscuit Month. A staple in African American homes for generations no matter the month, even when you don’t have eggs, Drop Butter Biscuits are a quick baked treat you can enjoy in just a few minutes. At almost 60 years of age I still think of biscuit making as too much…
