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New Orleans Crawfish pasta (2026 version)
It consists of Rotini pasta and crawfish tails coated with a well-seasoned crawfish pasta sauce.

Homemade Apple Crisp (2025 version)
Apple filling added into a baking pan with a crunchy crumb topping with oatmeal and pecans added on top and baked in the oven

Sugar-free Strawberry Bundt cake
A sugar-free strawberry cake that is made with a 0 calorie sweetener and a sugar-free strawberry icing poured on top before serving.

Chocolate chip cookie cake
A large moist dense cookie with semi-sweet chocolate morsels and a vanilla and chocolate buttercream frosting and festive sprinkles added on top.

Southern Hospitality Pound Cake
This cake was inspired by the Bluebell ice cream flavor Southern Hospitality. It consists of a moist butter vanilla pound cake with roasted pecans, pineapples with a strawberry swirl and a sweet cream cheese icing poured on top.

This chowder consists of seasoned chicken breasts, broccoli and potatoes in a creamy, well-seasoned cheese sauce.

Stuffed crust pepperoni pizza
It consists of a pizza made with a marinara sauce, shredded mozzarella and parmesan cheeses, sliced pepperoni and lots of mozzarella cheese added into the crust hence the name "Stuffed crust"

Popeyes style red beans and rice
Creamy well-seasoned red beans flavored with pickled and smoked broths seasonings, mesquite liquid smoke served over Zatarain's parboiled rice.

White chocolate pound cake
A moist dense pound cake with a white baking chocolate and white chocolate extract added and white chocolate icing added on top before serving.

Natchitoches meat pies 2026 version
Natchitoches meat pies are a classic meat pie from the state of Louisiana. It consists of a seasoned pork and beef filling in a flaky deep fried pastry crust.

Honey Bun Pound Cake
This pound cake combines dense texture of a classic pound cake with the distinctive flavor of the honey bun.

Homemade Grape Lemonade
This lemonade is made with concord grapes and fresh lemons. It has the tartness of the lemons and the sweetness of the grapes.

Seasoned Green beans with bacon and potatoes
Seasoned Green beans are a side dish that can be prepared several ways. The green beans and rinsed and cut and smothered in a seasoned and flavorful pork stock with potato cubes and bacon pieces.

Pork Neck bone stew
This stew contains pork neck bones, carrots, peas and potatoes that are cooked down in a pork broth that this thickened with a roux.

Fried Green tomatoes with shrimp remoulade sauce
Fried green tomatoes are unripe green tomatoes that are battered and fried in hot oil. It is served with a shrimp remoulade sauce.

Smoked sausage potato egg and cheese breakfast bowl
This breakfast bowl consists of smoked sausage, potatoes, scrambled eggs and cheese in a classic hearty all in one meal.

New Orleans Buttermilk drop donuts
It consists of a deep-fried buttermilk flavored cake drop coated with a thin butter vanilla almond glaze. This popular breakfast item was inspired by the iconic McKenzie's bakery, and the buttermilk drop bakery down in New Orleans.

New Orleans Shrimp boil
Shrimp cooked until tender and soaked in a highly seasoned liquid before serving.

A mile high pound cake is a cake that uses more ingredients like flour butter sugar and eggs than a traditional pound cake. The finished result is a larger more dense and taller pound cake.

Collard greens and cornbread is 2 classic southern foods into one dish. It combines the flavor and pot liquor of the collard greens and smoked neck bones with the slightly sweet and savory cornbread.

Homemade Ground beef Stroganoff
Ground beef stroganoff is a quick and easy one pot meal with ground beef, egg noodles, sour cream, beef stock and seasonings.

Homemade Beef Gravy Lasagna
Beef gravy Lasagna consists of Lasagna pasta sheets layered with ground beef, steak, 3 different types of cheeses and rich beef brown gravy sauce. No tomatoes are added.

Honey Mustard Fried chicken wraps
Fried chicken breasts, romaine lettuce, and a honey mustard sauce wrapped in a flour tortilla.

Smothered chicken is a comfort meal that consists of chicken smothered in a well-seasoned chicken gravy and served over rice. This dish also goes with sides with green peas, green beans and potato salad.




