The Soul Food Pod is the first soul food podcast about Southern soul food, providing recipes for success in the kitchen.
The show is hosted by Shaunda Necole, cookbook author and food & lifestyle blogger, making life easier + more soulful, one recipe at a time.
Join the conversation about how accessible and approachable classic Southern soul food recipes can be. Shaunda will show you how iconic recipes are now easy enough for anyone to make - and everyone to love!
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Many people associate soul food with Southern comfort food and the South. But soul food goes way beyond Southern cooking.
What is Black traditional food?
My recipes on TheSoulFoodPot.com! These are my best examples of Black people's food and recipes that are easy enough for anyone to make and everyone to love! Examples of soul food are a Black folks' fried chicken recipe alongside collard greens, black-eyed peas, baked macaroni and cheese, and cornbread.
But what you still wanna know is... What's the difference between soul food and Southern food?
We break it all down in today's episode!
What you'll learn in today's episode:
What makes soul food soul food?
What is Black culture food?
What's the difference between Southern food, soul food & Black people's food?
What is Black people food?
People have asked me, "Why do you call your recipes Black folks' food?"
Black Folks Sweet Potato Pie Recipe With Condensed Milk
Season 2 · Episode 10
Sunday, November 19, 2023 • Duration 16:33
Thanks for joining me in the kitchen today for another episode of The Soul Food Pod!
Have you checked out my new Black folks' sweet potato pie cookbook?
It's a collector's edition honoring a legacy of West African influences into my family's viral sweet potato pie recipes!
Black folks sweet potato pie recipe, old fashioned sweet potato pie, purple sweet potato pie, and Southern sweet potato pie with cream cheese. Which one is your favorite?
My favorite is my classic Black folks' sweet potato pie. The first sweet potato pie recipe to introduce warm spicy notes of clove and ginger as part of its signature soul food spices, along with silky evaporated milk in the recipe.
But what if you don't have evaporated milk on hand?
Can you use sweetened condensed milk instead of evaporated milk in pie?
In the words of my favorite President, Barack Obama, "Yes, we can!"
So, in this sweet potato pie recipe, I'm sharing today, sweetened condensed milk substitutes for evaporated milk.
It's my signature Black folk’s sweet potato pie recipe with condensed milk.
What you'll learn in this episode:
Which is better, evaporated or condensed milk?
How do you make a Black folks sweet potato pie recipe with condensed milk?
Black Folks Southern Tea Cake Recipe
Season 2 · Episode 9
Sunday, November 12, 2023 • Duration 14:00
This "Black folk tea cake recipe" (that's what they're called!) is an old-fashioned nostalgic Southern soul food treat!
What you'll learn in this episode:
What is a Black folks' Southern tea cake?
African American tea cakes are a somewhat fancy Southern dessert. Little round cakes. Light, airy, and sometimes compared to soda bread or pound cake.
Tea cakes are typically served with hot tea at gatherings like weddings, christenings, and family events. Or any other pomp and circumstance dress-up occasion (which Black folks love).
Are tea cakes African-American?
It's believed that enslaved African Americans created tea cakes to reproduce the fluffy European confections that white Americans were accustomed to.
African Americans made their own version of tea cakes based on what was available to them with limited baking supplies.
What do you serve with tea cakes?
Why is the tea cake important to African Americans?
Where did tea cakes originate?
What are tea cakes made of?
What do old-fashioned tea cakes taste like?
How do you make Black folks' old-fashioned tea cake?
If you grew up on soul food cooking or grew up in the South, then you already know! Grits are a staple in most Southern homes.
And if you're looking for a fantastic meal that boasts Southern comfort food with an extreme infusion of soul food flavors…
Then this Black folks' Southern shrimp and grits recipe is what you've been searching for!
What is Black folks Southern shrimp and grits?
Southern shrimp and grits is an
African-American dish that has all the creamy, saucy, and seafood goodness with
the perfect Southern Creole seasoning to keep things interesting.
It's served over white corn grits
laced with the perfect blend of mascarpone cheese. Followed by a creamy sauce
infused with smoked paprika and chili powder, this Southern shrimp delicacy
offers a variety of flavors that will leave your tastebuds amazed!
Crispy skin and moist, juicy, flavorful meat – that’s what embodies a Black folk turkey recipe. Atlanta folks might call it a soul food “dirty bird!”
My signature recipe for Black folks Southern turkey will have your hungry bunch gobbling up this Southern specialty in no time.
It’s one of our family’s favorites that gets devoured in minutes at Thanksgiving dinner.
Warning: There will be no leftovers for the next meal!
What is the secret to a moist turkey?
The secret to a flavorful, juicy Southern bird is all in my signature apple cider brine. It’s the beautiful fragrant marinade the turkey is roasted in.
What you'll learn in this episode:
How to make a turkey marinade/brine
What type of Southern seasoning is best to use?
What can you put in your turkey for flavor?
Should you salt a brined turkey?
What kind of turkey should you cook?
Can you inject the turkey?
How do you keep the turkey warm?
Should you cover the turkey when cooking?
What size turkey do you need?
How do you thaw a whole turkey?
How much turkey per person?
How do you know when your turkey is done?
My family loves my Southern turkey recipe because it’s so moist, juicy, and flavorful. It’s also simple for anyone to make – so don’t be afraid of cooking the turkey yourself this year!
Black Folks Chicken And Dressing
Season 2 · Episode 6
Monday, October 16, 2023 • Duration 18:20
We're diving deep into an iconic recipe. One that some folks might have to wait all year to gather with friends and family to eat. It's the one Southern dish you shouldn't miss this Thanksgiving. Black folks chicken and dressing.
What you'll learn in this episode:
What is chicken and dressing?
Cornbread dressing with the addition of shredded baked chicken. The ingredients include cooked poultry (chicken or turkey, and you can use leftovers) and flavorful Southern seasonings. Celery, onion, thyme, chicken stock, and egg.
A simple, delicious, hearty meal. An African-American staple that’s made its way into many homes and generations nationwide.
What’s the difference between Southern cornbread stuffing and dressing?
Stuffing and dressing are terms for a dish made with bread, usually cornbread in the Southern United States.
Stuffing is baked inside the Thanksgiving turkey or bird during the cooking process.
Dressing is baked on its own and served as a side dish.
Homemade chicken dressing
Now, this recipe has a lot of steps to go with its plenty of ingredients! But no worries – I’ve gotchu! With my simple, step-by-step guided instructions for your ease in perfecting this iconic recipe – whether you’re a seasoned pro or a first-time beginner making this! - Listen to the recipe
Old Fashioned Thanksgiving Dressing Recipe
Season 2 · Episode 5
Sunday, October 15, 2023 • Duration 17:21
Get ready for an unforgettable Thanksgiving Day with this soul food inspired Southern old-fashioned Thanksgiving dressing recipe. A delicious casserole dish everyone around the dinner table loves!
Traditions, family, and food are the hallmarks of Thanksgiving. And in good tradition, a Thanksgiving dinner table is incomplete without an old-fashioned Thanksgiving dressing recipe.
What you'll learn in this episode:
What is Thanksgiving dressing made of?
Thanksgiving dressing is a savory mixture of different ingredients such as cornbread, chicken broth, fresh herbs, and spices mixed with egg.
It’s usually served with turkey on Thanksgiving Day to deliver a delicious flavor. The dressing is traditionally prepared in a large bowl by combining all ingredients and then baked in a large casserole dish in the oven.
Something about Southern soul food's slow pace and easy-going nature makes you feel at home.
So when you're hungry, there are some great Southern dishes to try out before settling on a favorite – like Tidewater
Virginia chicken yock!
What you'll learn in this episode:
What kind of food is yock (yok)?
Soul food chicken yock is a meal that's
an ode to my hometown in coastal Virginia. The Tidewater region, area code 757.
We say two up, two down.
Put two fingers up for V, and two fingers down for Ayy – Virginia -
VA. (Sound effect - Ayyye!)
If you Google this yock soul food recipe - Tidewater Virginia yock, followed by Norfolk yock, will be at the top
of the list!
What is chicken yock food (yock-a-mein)?
People also ask, "What is chicken
yok?"
Chicken yock is a big bowl of comfort.
You may know this dish from its menu names, like New Orleans Old Sober. Or its
Chinese derivatives, yak, yok, yock-a-mein (yaka mein), or simply Chinese
yock.
What ingredients are in soul food chicken yock?
Is yock Chinese food or soul food?
Season one of The Wire cut many folks to the white meat when it suggested that yock is not Chinese food and most definitely a soul food dish that Black folks created!
Black Folks Southern Candied Yams
Season 2 · Episode 2
Sunday, October 15, 2023 • Duration 16:47
What you'll learn in this episode?
What are Black folks' Southern candied yams?
Although more sweet than savory, candied yams are a side dish often topped with marshmallows after cooking in a buttery mix of seasonings and spices that elevate this soul food dish to divine perfection!
Are candied yams a Black thing?
What is the history of Southern candied yams?
Yams are a vegetable similar to sweet potatoes but come from the motherland in Africa.
Africans were used to cooking with yams. So when they were brought to the American South as enslaved persons, the next best thing available was a sweet potato, which they also called yams.
True to Black folks' nature, they took something from nothing and elevated yams to the soul food delicacy many people love and crave today. Black folks' Southern candied yams!
We're diving deep into an iconic recipe. One that some folks might have to wait all year to gather with friends and family to eat.
It's the one Southern dish you shouldn't miss this Thanksgiving. Black folks chicken and dressing.
What you'll learn in this episode:
What is chicken and dressing?
Cornbread dressing with the addition of shredded baked chicken. The ingredients include cooked poultry (chicken or turkey, and you can use leftovers), flavorful Southern seasonings. Cornbread, celery, onion, thyme, chicken stock, and egg.
A simple, delicious, hearty meal. An African American staple that’s made its way into many homes and generations nationwide.
What’s the difference between Southern cornbread stuffing and dressing?
Stuffing and dressing are terms for a dish made with bread, usually cornbread in the Southern United States.
Stuffing is baked inside the Thanksgiving turkey or bird during the cooking process.
Dressing is baked on its own and served as a side dish.
Homemade chicken dressing
Now, this recipe has a lot of steps to go with its plenty of ingredients!
But no worries – I’ve gotchu!
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But I tend to think that yock may be soul food and Chinese food combined.
A soup-like dish traditionally made from boiled chicken, noodles, egg, spices, and broth. Then topped with your
choice of American ketchup, Chinese soy sauce, or Black folks' favorite – hot
sauce!
With my simple, step-by-step guided instructions for your ease in perfecting this iconic recipe – whether you’re a seasoned pro or a first-time beginner making this! - Listen to the recipe
