Chef Rick, I have copied several of your recipes and will be making the beigneits tonight and frying them for my husband to take to work tomorrow. Thanks again for the great recipes. Libby
Hi Chef Rick,
I have been using your recipes for about 2 years and have made some great meals, but over the last year I have not been able to hear the music on your web site…
Earl
Thank you for the great recipes Chef Rick
I have tried a couple of your recipes and they are soooooooooo good and easy to prepare. I am looking forward to trying some more.
By the way… The chicken and sausage gumbo is Awesome. GOD BLESS YOU!
BD
I have loved Cajun and Creole cooking since I was a kid, but living in New Mexico I don’t get it much around here. I came across your site several years ago when my wife went back to collage and I got the kitchen to myself. Your website has been lots of fun and was the start of what has become a passion for me, cooking (especially since I haven’t had to call the coroner yet!!!).
My wife has her degree now but I kept the kitchen!!!
I’m also in the UK but of Caribbean origins. Been loving your site now for about 5 years. Used it to teach my senior citizen students how to use the internet. We loved it then and I still love it now. I really love what you do. Keep up the good work.
hey Rick
its great to finally find a website that has good ol carolina cookin reading it made me remeber growing up in the old north state. im a cook and know alot if the stuff you have here.
Hey Chef Rick!
I just found your web site! The recipes sound GREAT and I plan to try them soon.
Instead of paying hideous prices for gas, I may just stay home and cook!
I moved to North Alabama a few years ago from the Gulf Coast. Somehow I lost all my recipes and haven’t been able to find a real seafood gumbo recipe until I found you. Thank you, thank you. I will be back again and again. My family thanks you also as they really enjoyed the gumbo.
I am a southern belle that loves to cook but I have never seen a site quite like yours Chef Rick! I plan to use it A LOT - they say the way to a man’s heart ladies…..is thru his stomach, well you better believe it! My husband already loves my cooking, I can hardly wait to see what he says after trying some of THESE recipes!!
Rick, just found your web site and it’s like looking
over my Mama’s shoulder while she was cooking. It’s
been a very long time since I have had some of these
dishes. I look forward to cooking up a mess of collard
greens, a pot of black eyed peas and baking some corn bread.
I first want to thank you for the number of recipes you have offered me. I am a Culinary Student currently with hopes of following your footsteps and becoming famous for my dishes. Secondly, in my recent studies i find that many of the recipes vary upon region and i was wondering if you have noticed the difference as well. KEEP DOING IT BROTHA!!!
Loved finding your website…Spent a week in Charleston, and fell in love with their food…Living in Texas, it is hard to find food like this, so I am glad to have found all of your wonderful recipes, as now, I can just cook it myself!
Oh-me-ya! Sha-biday! I’ve lived in Louisiana, for spell, My Dad was stationed at N.A.S. Belle Chase. I went to Westwego Elementary, and Worley Middle School. I loved it when the cafeteria would serve red beans and rice, and I loved the dirty rice, they would serve also. But of course nothin’ beats a big-o-pot of low country boil, the crawfish, shrimp, crab, corn on the cob, sausage, potatoes, and quartered onions! GAWD, what wonderful memories I have of Louisiana.
Go UofF Gators!
An honorary coon-ass
Hi there I adore your website. You are redefined
as a Food Saviour in my eyes. I have used many of your wonderful recipes for many years. Pleased many appetites with them all, only asking for more. I do certainly miss the great music you used to offer on your website, What Happened? Please Continue and carry on with all the super ideas you offer to us all
Horacious Holidays, Chef Dynamarie from the Wild Wild West
Great website. just found it today, I am now cooking the meat loaf. Love the way the website is laid out. I have a group of friends and customers over every Tuesday night and I will be trying out several of your receips. Thanks for your time and efford it took to put this together. I will be sending you comments on the receipts that I cook.
Thanks,Jerry
Paris, Tn. P.S. I had your website b-4. I like this one better.
I stumbled upon your website, and I am so glad I did. My entire family is from New Orleans, and now that so many of them are scattered all over I realize how important it is to collect these recipes for the next generation to carry on.
Chef Rick, Great site. I am a student at Le Cordon Bleu Institute of Culinary arts and am interested in food writing. Your articles are superb. Cajun cooking is one of my faves. One question. What happened to your little tidbit about the first fried chicken. Had to do with the first church piknic. I loved that article. I laughed everytime I read it. If you still have it could you email it to me. Thanks.
i liked your recipie for fried chicken. it was delicious i also would like to say that you need more sugar in your lemonade. you should make a recipe for LARGE BEEF BONES
Hi, I have made several of your recipes with great results. At this minute I have blackberries cooking to make your blackberry cordial. I just wanted to know if anyone has made it and if you have any suggestions before I get it finished. I am using my frozen blackberries do you think that will make a difference. Thanks, Libby
Chef Rick
Great website! I’ve always liked cajun, low country
and southern cooking. Originally from PA now living in NC for the past 17 years. I just stumbled on your website while researching for lowcountry cookbooks. As I said GREAT website.
Chef Rick,
I am a Chef myself and have found your web-site very helpful. After my parents moved to Conway S.C. from New England and going down to vist them I became intrested in the Lowland Cooking and now do some of it at home and at work and even when we go camping up in Maine with some of the great seafood that they have in Maine to offer.
Thank’s again & Keep up the great work!
awesome recipes chef rick !!! being born and raised in south louisiana (Lake Charles), i can attest to your authenticity !! you go man !! i do have some recipes i’d love to share with you……but then again, you probably don’t need this old housewife’s recipes??!!! lol
just a fyi……my mother was from Bogalousa and my grandmother (with whom I spent most weekends and ran a restaurant) was from Cade, LA……..les sais les bon tempts roullette…….lol
Hi Rick, I made the blackberry cordial and it is really good. I only made half a batch but next time I will make the full recipe, I drink just a small glass when I want to relax. I have to make it last. Thanks for the great recipes, Libby in Wv.
This is the first time I have ever seen a recipe for pane’ed pork chops online. It was a childhood favorite of mine. This was one of the first meals I learned to cook as a young woman, and is the dish my husband credits for knowing he just had to marry me! Thanks for passing it on.
Rick,I discovered your Coconut Custard Pie recipe several years ago. I make them and give them away all the time. Everyone just raves about it.
I made it for my Episcopal Church Bazar and they fetch $10 each!
Hey, Chef Rick! I am from Houston, and I have lived in New Orleans, Las Vegas and now Phoenix. I always say nobody knows anything about good home cookin’ around here! Anyway, I am sooo glad to have found your site. I was looking for some tips on baking cakes, as my husband’s birthday party is tomorrow night. I looked up tips for baking cakes and found your site (which does have great tips), which also has all the food I love and miss! I’ll write more when I start trying your recipes! I feel like I have discovered a piece of home that I really miss!
I was googling low country cooking and this wonderful site came up!! Thank you soo much for sharing your recipes. I am in the process now of getting a good low country menu together and will touch base to tell let you how your recipes were.
Hello there! I am a BorneoGirl, I am 19. Unfortunaly I am a newbie in Internet so surf via many sites.
I’ve stopped on your site just to leave a short question… don’t you know about low cholesterol diet menu http://cholesterol.2y.net
I have a friend that suffer with high cholesterol and he need some diet maybe you know it and give the
link where I can read about? Thank you.
i am so glad I found this site! I grew up in Hickory North Carolina and so many of these recipes bring back wonderful memories from my childhood! Thank you for publishing them…
OMG… I was looking for a good ole fashioned hush puppy recipe and found these wonderful recipes… I make my sausage gravy just like you do and it is soooo good…hahahaha… So glad I found your site cause I am a down home southern girl from Alabama and I love all your recipes..I am going to the grocery store and buy everything for this fantastic pimento cheese recipe… Thanks so much Rick..
Found your website years ago when I was looking for a good Sweet Potatoe Pie recipe. Your has been the best!
I have tried a few others and finally decided to stick with what works.
I’ll be making it again for Thanksgiving (not that I need a holiday to make it), it is the absolute creamiest, most delightful pie I now make, thanks to you!
In honor of your dear Aunt Ruth……I’ll have to give her huge hugs and kisses when I get to Heaven!
Happy New Year! I’ve been using your website for years and just wanted to say thank you for the fabulous recipes. Have you ever consider a combination gumbo?
I’ve just found your site and looking forward to trying your recipes I’m really excited about using your advice because I love southern food. Thanks for your information.
I love this site! I was raised on tradtional Southern food, as my adoptive father was from Alabama, Louisiana, and Northern Florida. I have been craving peach cobbler, cornbread, collard greens, seafood gumbo, and grits the most. I can now make them at home from scratch on my own! Thanks for providing this much appreciated site!
libby said
July 14 2008 @ 5:05 pm
Chef Rick, I have copied several of your recipes and will be making the beigneits tonight and frying them for my husband to take to work tomorrow. Thanks again for the great recipes. Libby
carol kendrick said
July 14 2008 @ 10:35 pm
hi rick, i looking for a recipe for old fashion stickies
Hazel Lewis said
July 22 2008 @ 10:13 am
Hello,
I am very greatful for this website, this has been THE ONLY website, that I have found credible sounthern recepies.
Thank You so much for sharing!!!1
Hazel Lewis
Southern CA - Orange County
Bobby Dickey said
July 24 2008 @ 7:29 am
Great site… so much good info!!!!! Thanks for all you do.
Bobby Dickey
Exeter, CA
john mincey said
July 26 2008 @ 5:33 am
hi rick, just found your website and can’t wait to show my wife!! john mincey,trion georgia
Mrs. Bonnie Bell said
July 30 2008 @ 4:33 pm
That’s ALABAMA country cooking
Earl said
August 11 2008 @ 9:05 am
Hi Chef Rick,
I have been using your recipes for about 2 years and have made some great meals, but over the last year I have not been able to hear the music on your web site…
Earl
BD Pettus said
August 13 2008 @ 9:03 pm
Thank you for the great recipes Chef Rick
I have tried a couple of your recipes and they are soooooooooo good and easy to prepare. I am looking forward to trying some more.
By the way… The chicken and sausage gumbo is Awesome. GOD BLESS YOU!
BD
Barry said
August 18 2008 @ 12:04 pm
Just found your site. I’m in the UK and I’ve not seen recipes like these before. I’m going to give some of them a try, they sound fab.
Regards
Barry
Jimm White said
August 19 2008 @ 9:14 am
I have loved Cajun and Creole cooking since I was a kid, but living in New Mexico I don’t get it much around here. I came across your site several years ago when my wife went back to collage and I got the kitchen to myself. Your website has been lots of fun and was the start of what has become a passion for me, cooking (especially since I haven’t had to call the coroner yet!!!).
My wife has her degree now but I kept the kitchen!!!
Thanks for the great site.
Jimm
Sara King said
August 19 2008 @ 2:06 pm
Hi,
I’m also in the UK but of Caribbean origins. Been loving your site now for about 5 years. Used it to teach my senior citizen students how to use the internet. We loved it then and I still love it now. I really love what you do. Keep up the good work.
God bless you richly,
Sara
Russell Felch said
August 24 2008 @ 7:30 pm
hey Rick
its great to finally find a website that has good ol carolina cookin reading it made me remeber growing up in the old north state. im a cook and know alot if the stuff you have here.
Pwincess said
August 29 2008 @ 1:52 pm
Now this transplanted Yankee knows where to turn for REEEEAL Southern Cookin’!
Craig Evans said
September 13 2008 @ 1:51 pm
Hey Chef Rick!
I just found your web site! The recipes sound GREAT and I plan to try them soon.
Instead of paying hideous prices for gas, I may just stay home and cook!
THANKS,
Craig
Brenda Hoffren said
September 27 2008 @ 12:30 pm
Hi Rick,
I moved to North Alabama a few years ago from the Gulf Coast. Somehow I lost all my recipes and haven’t been able to find a real seafood gumbo recipe until I found you. Thank you, thank you. I will be back again and again. My family thanks you also as they really enjoyed the gumbo.
Thanks.
Brenda
CATT, FROM MICHIGAN said
October 1 2008 @ 4:13 pm
Thanks, i’ve been looking for down home recipes and I have found that with you Chef Rick. THanks again…MMMM GOOD…
Denise said
October 19 2008 @ 10:51 pm
I am a southern belle that loves to cook but I have never seen a site quite like yours Chef Rick! I plan to use it A LOT - they say the way to a man’s heart ladies…..is thru his stomach, well you better believe it! My husband already loves my cooking, I can hardly wait to see what he says after trying some of THESE recipes!!
Denise
Teri Debenport said
October 27 2008 @ 8:51 am
I have enjoyed reading your recipes. I grew up in East Texas cooking a lot like you cook. Happy Eating!!!
Dan Bennett said
November 11 2008 @ 9:44 pm
Rick, just found your web site and it’s like looking
over my Mama’s shoulder while she was cooking. It’s
been a very long time since I have had some of these
dishes. I look forward to cooking up a mess of collard
greens, a pot of black eyed peas and baking some corn bread.
Bill Green said
November 23 2008 @ 10:44 am
Chef Rick. Very great cook web site. When I want something great I come to your web. Your the best. keep up the good work
hersheychef said
November 25 2008 @ 3:40 pm
I first want to thank you for the number of recipes you have offered me. I am a Culinary Student currently with hopes of following your footsteps and becoming famous for my dishes. Secondly, in my recent studies i find that many of the recipes vary upon region and i was wondering if you have noticed the difference as well. KEEP DOING IT BROTHA!!!
Nancy said
November 28 2008 @ 1:58 pm
Loved finding your website…Spent a week in Charleston, and fell in love with their food…Living in Texas, it is hard to find food like this, so I am glad to have found all of your wonderful recipes, as now, I can just cook it myself!
Susan R. Oliver said
December 6 2008 @ 11:05 am
Oh-me-ya! Sha-biday! I’ve lived in Louisiana, for spell, My Dad was stationed at N.A.S. Belle Chase. I went to Westwego Elementary, and Worley Middle School. I loved it when the cafeteria would serve red beans and rice, and I loved the dirty rice, they would serve also. But of course nothin’ beats a big-o-pot of low country boil, the crawfish, shrimp, crab, corn on the cob, sausage, potatoes, and quartered onions! GAWD, what wonderful memories I have of Louisiana.
Go UofF Gators!
An honorary coon-ass
Chefdynamarie said
December 8 2008 @ 3:08 pm
Hi there I adore your website. You are redefined
as a Food Saviour in my eyes. I have used many of your wonderful recipes for many years. Pleased many appetites with them all, only asking for more. I do certainly miss the great music you used to offer on your website, What Happened? Please Continue and carry on with all the super ideas you offer to us all
Horacious Holidays, Chef Dynamarie from the Wild Wild West
JERRY BB. HOLMES said
December 9 2008 @ 3:19 pm
Great website. just found it today, I am now cooking the meat loaf. Love the way the website is laid out. I have a group of friends and customers over every Tuesday night and I will be trying out several of your receips. Thanks for your time and efford it took to put this together. I will be sending you comments on the receipts that I cook.
Thanks,Jerry
Paris, Tn. P.S. I had your website b-4. I like this one better.
Royce said
December 17 2008 @ 12:31 pm
I swear to God one of these days I’m going to drive up in my 18 wheeler and make you cook for me…
Merry Christmas, Bro!
Ed Kelly said
December 17 2008 @ 1:04 pm
There is a special place in my home for you and your recipes——I GAURONTEE!
Vivian said
December 23 2008 @ 1:35 am
Chef Rick,
I stumbled upon your website, and I am so glad I did. My entire family is from New Orleans, and now that so many of them are scattered all over I realize how important it is to collect these recipes for the next generation to carry on.
God Bless You and Thank You!!
Jason Gray said
December 24 2008 @ 12:51 pm
Chef Rick, Great site. I am a student at Le Cordon Bleu Institute of Culinary arts and am interested in food writing. Your articles are superb. Cajun cooking is one of my faves. One question. What happened to your little tidbit about the first fried chicken. Had to do with the first church piknic. I loved that article. I laughed everytime I read it. If you still have it could you email it to me. Thanks.
chris said
January 6 2009 @ 7:18 am
i liked your recipie for fried chicken. it was delicious i also would like to say that you need more sugar in your lemonade. you should make a recipe for LARGE BEEF BONES
Hendersonville Epicurean said
January 8 2009 @ 9:43 pm
Hello Chef Rick,
Can’t believe it took me until now to find your wonderful site! I’ve linked to it on my blog, Hendersonville Epicurean. Thanks for publishing!
Libby said
January 10 2009 @ 9:09 am
Hi, I have made several of your recipes with great results. At this minute I have blackberries cooking to make your blackberry cordial. I just wanted to know if anyone has made it and if you have any suggestions before I get it finished. I am using my frozen blackberries do you think that will make a difference. Thanks, Libby
gordon nunn said
January 31 2009 @ 11:23 am
Cool website. I think Jeff Lamm told me that your alias was Chef Rick. I look forward to lifting a few recipes off your site.
Heather said
February 17 2009 @ 1:35 pm
Great Site!! Come check out mine as well =)
hester babino said
February 19 2009 @ 1:40 pm
this is my first visit.I love all the different recipes.
Chef Steve Toaso said
February 24 2009 @ 10:31 am
Chef Rick
Great website! I’ve always liked cajun, low country
and southern cooking. Originally from PA now living in NC for the past 17 years. I just stumbled on your website while researching for lowcountry cookbooks. As I said GREAT website.
Chef Einar said
March 1 2009 @ 4:43 am
Chef Rick,
I am a Chef myself and have found your web-site very helpful. After my parents moved to Conway S.C. from New England and going down to vist them I became intrested in the Lowland Cooking and now do some of it at home and at work and even when we go camping up in Maine with some of the great seafood that they have in Maine to offer.
Thank’s again & Keep up the great work!
Einar,
Terry Assunto said
April 6 2009 @ 5:08 pm
awesome recipes chef rick !!! being born and raised in south louisiana (Lake Charles), i can attest to your authenticity !! you go man !! i do have some recipes i’d love to share with you……but then again, you probably don’t need this old housewife’s recipes??!!! lol
just a fyi……my mother was from Bogalousa and my grandmother (with whom I spent most weekends and ran a restaurant) was from Cade, LA……..les sais les bon tempts roullette…….lol
Libby said
April 29 2009 @ 1:57 pm
Hi Rick, I made the blackberry cordial and it is really good. I only made half a batch but next time I will make the full recipe, I drink just a small glass when I want to relax. I have to make it last. Thanks for the great recipes, Libby in Wv.
Barb said
May 4 2009 @ 4:34 pm
I was looking for new recipes and stumbled onto your website. I Love it, keep up the good work
Michelle said
May 5 2009 @ 6:42 pm
This is the first time I have ever seen a recipe for pane’ed pork chops online. It was a childhood favorite of mine. This was one of the first meals I learned to cook as a young woman, and is the dish my husband credits for knowing he just had to marry me! Thanks for passing it on.
chief michael hamilton said
May 8 2009 @ 3:49 pm
good stuff !
Mr. Tommy said
May 17 2009 @ 11:50 am
Rick,I discovered your Coconut Custard Pie recipe several years ago. I make them and give them away all the time. Everyone just raves about it.
I made it for my Episcopal Church Bazar and they fetch $10 each!
thanks for sharing.
Peggy Kaye said
May 24 2009 @ 7:04 pm
Hey, Chef Rick! I am from Houston, and I have lived in New Orleans, Las Vegas and now Phoenix. I always say nobody knows anything about good home cookin’ around here! Anyway, I am sooo glad to have found your site. I was looking for some tips on baking cakes, as my husband’s birthday party is tomorrow night. I looked up tips for baking cakes and found your site (which does have great tips), which also has all the food I love and miss! I’ll write more when I start trying your recipes! I feel like I have discovered a piece of home that I really miss!
Natasha Livingston said
June 7 2009 @ 2:04 pm
I was googling low country cooking and this wonderful site came up!! Thank you soo much for sharing your recipes. I am in the process now of getting a good low country menu together and will touch base to tell let you how your recipes were.
BorneoGirl said
June 21 2009 @ 9:21 am
Hello there! I am a BorneoGirl, I am 19. Unfortunaly I am a newbie in Internet so surf via many sites.
I’ve stopped on your site just to leave a short question… don’t you know about
low cholesterol diet menu
http://cholesterol.2y.net
I have a friend that suffer with high cholesterol and he need some diet maybe you know it and give the
link where I can read about? Thank you.
Jj said
July 29 2009 @ 5:54 am
Chef Rick, your recipes are marvelous, thank you for so many great shares!
Sharon T said
August 7 2009 @ 9:31 pm
i am so glad I found this site! I grew up in Hickory North Carolina and so many of these recipes bring back wonderful memories from my childhood! Thank you for publishing them…
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August 18 2009 @ 12:30 pm
I enjoy the above post, very neat, i like this website
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linda m said
August 30 2009 @ 7:07 pm
WOW, JUST WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR. SO MUCH INFO ON THE TYPE OF FOODS I LIKE TO COOK.
sandrar said
September 10 2009 @ 2:24 pm
Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog.
Cheers! Sandra. R.
Nancy said
September 15 2009 @ 6:03 pm
OMG… I was looking for a good ole fashioned hush puppy recipe and found these wonderful recipes… I make my sausage gravy just like you do and it is soooo good…hahahaha… So glad I found your site cause I am a down home southern girl from Alabama and I love all your recipes..I am going to the grocery store and buy everything for this fantastic pimento cheese recipe… Thanks so much Rick..
Robin said
October 13 2009 @ 1:31 pm
Just “ran across” your website while looking for an oyster stew recipe.
I have now been looking at all kinds of recipes for over an hour ….
Great recipes - can’t wait to try them !
Robin said
October 13 2009 @ 1:33 pm
Just “ran across” your website looking for an oyster stew recipe. I have now been looking at this site for over an hour …..
I am a good ole’ southern girl from North Carolina and I can’t wait to try some of these recipes
Linda said
November 6 2009 @ 11:10 am
Hi Rick: I tried the chicken and dumplings. Fabulous!!! Plan to try many, many more. Can we order a cook book? Thanks!
Patricia Kramer said
November 18 2009 @ 2:14 pm
Hey Rick,
Found your website years ago when I was looking for a good Sweet Potatoe Pie recipe. Your has been the best!
I have tried a few others and finally decided to stick with what works.
I’ll be making it again for Thanksgiving (not that I need a holiday to make it), it is the absolute creamiest, most delightful pie I now make, thanks to you!
In honor of your dear Aunt Ruth……I’ll have to give her huge hugs and kisses when I get to Heaven!
Thanks again,
Patricia
Rose Jackson said
January 8 2010 @ 3:01 pm
Hi Chef Rick,
Happy New Year! I’ve been using your website for years and just wanted to say thank you for the fabulous recipes. Have you ever consider a combination gumbo?
Rose Jackson
robert williams said
February 4 2010 @ 3:54 am
a wonderfull web site for any one that like me jest likes to cook and eat and try something different and flavorful
Lynn said
February 21 2010 @ 8:10 pm
Hi Rick
I’ve just found your site and looking forward to trying your recipes I’m really excited about using your advice because I love southern food. Thanks for your information.
Aindrea McCammon said
March 7 2010 @ 6:02 pm
I love this site! I was raised on tradtional Southern food, as my adoptive father was from Alabama, Louisiana, and Northern Florida. I have been craving peach cobbler, cornbread, collard greens, seafood gumbo, and grits the most. I can now make them at home from scratch on my own! Thanks for providing this much appreciated site!