A British kitchen exploring American soul food
Soul food, made from scratch in a British kitchen
Real recipes, honest ingredient swaps, and everything I’ve learned cooking this food from 3,000 miles away.
“I’m not from the South. I became obsessed with this food and figured out how to make it work in a British kitchen — one recipe at a time.”
Start here — everything I wish I’d known
What the holy trinity is, why collard greens need low and slow heat, and where to track down the ingredients you can’t get at Tesco. Everything I figured out so you don’t have to start from scratch.
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Soul Food Holiday Menu: Thanksgiving and Christmas
Every year there are two big tables in the soul food calendar, and they look a lot alike. Greens, mac and cheese, candied sweet potatoes, cornbread dressing and a showstopping roast turn up at both. What changes is the mood, the dessert and the way the cook plans the day. This guide is for anyone…
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Collard Greens Recipe: Southern Style for UK Kitchens
Finding a proper collard greens recipe that works with what you can actually buy in Britain is harder than it should be. Real collards are not a supermarket staple here, and most American recipes assume you can grab a bunch on any shop run. This version is written for a UK kitchen, with swaps that…
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Where to Buy Andouille Sausage in the UK (Not Andouillette)
If you have ever stood in a UK supermarket sausage aisle with a gumbo recipe in your hand, you already know the problem. Andouille is the smoky, spicy backbone of so many Cajun and Creole dishes, and it is almost never on the shelf. The good news is that you can buy it here, if…
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Cornbread Dressing Recipe: Southern-Style for UK Kitchens
If you have ever wondered what Americans mean when they say “dressing”, this is it. A proper cornbread dressing is a savoury, sage-scented bake with a moist middle and a crisp, golden top, and it is the dish most Southern families would fight over before they touched the turkey. This is a cornbread dressing recipe…
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Red Beans and Rice: Authentic New Orleans Recipe (UK)
A proper pot of red beans and rice is slow, smoky and creamy, with a gravy that clings to every grain of rice. It is the kind of dish that makes the whole house smell wonderful by mid-afternoon. This version is written for UK kitchens, so you will find dried kidney beans, a smoked ham…
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Sweet Potato Pie with Condensed Milk (Southern)
Sweet potato pie is one of those desserts that sounds like it needs a family recipe passed down for generations, but the version most people actually love uses a shortcut: a tin of sweetened condensed milk. It gives you a rich, silky filling that sets properly every time, without any guesswork over cream or evaporated…
