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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.
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.
Shrimp Clemenceau
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.
Cherry Vanilla ice cream
Inspired by K&B's popular ice cream flavor cherry vanilla, this ice cream is a cherry vanilla flavored ice cream loaded with lots of maraschino cherries.
Chicken Fricassee
Chicken thighs mushrooms and seasonings simmered in a creamy chicken mushroom wine sauce.
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.
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.
Sour cream cheesecake
Inspired by McKenzie's bakery down in New Orleans. It consists of a soft rich vanilla cheesecake topped with a sweet and tangy sour cream topping and toasted graham crackers.
Lemon Ooey Gooey Cake
This type of cake is a flat dense cake with a lemon bottom crust and gooey lemon topping.
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.
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
Oven baked honey barbecue turkey wings
It consists of Tender juicy well-seasoned turkey wings which are baked until tender in the oven and they are coated with a sweet and savory barbecue sauce made from scratch.
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.
New Orleans Crawfish pasta (2026 version)
It consists of Rotini pasta and crawfish tails coated with a well-seasoned crawfish pasta sauce.
Homemade Eclairs
Eclairs are a choux pastry filled with a rich vanilla pastry cream and topped with a sweet chocolate ganache.
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.
Fried pork chop sandwiches
This sandwich consists of Seasoned Fried pork chops in-between 2 slices of bread and dressed with mayonnaise and a lil bit of hot sauce.
Dill pickle fried chicken wings
Battered chicken wings fried until golden brown and coated with a tangy and spicy Dill pickle hot wing sauce.
Seasoned Oven Roasted sirloin pork roast with mashed potatoes and white cheddar broccoli & cheese
This dish consists of a pork roast that is stuffed with garlic and seasonings with buttery mashed potatoes and white cheddar broccoli and cheese
Glazed or Traditional Beignets
Traditional or glazed Beignets are a yeast style dough fried in hot oil. Traditional beignets are dusted with lots of powdered sugar and glazed beignets are coated with a glaze before serving.
Honey Bun Pound Cake
This pound cake combines dense texture of a classic pound cake with the distinctive flavor of the honey bun.
Honey Mustard Fried chicken wraps
Fried chicken breasts, romaine lettuce, and a honey mustard sauce wrapped in a flour tortilla.
Louisiana Cajun Rice dressing
Rice dressing is a Cajun dish that uses ground meats and seasonings to give it a savory flavor.
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.
This traditional creole-style combination Jambalaya consists of chicken thighs, chicken breasts, smoked sausage, Tasso pork, shrimp, tomatoes, long grain rice, seasonings herbs and spices cooked down in both chicken and seafood stock until tender.
It consists of a moist cream cheese flavored pound cake with a cream cheese icing poured on top.
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.
Shrimp po'boy 2026 version
It consists of a Fried shrimp po'boy dressed with lettuce, tomato, pickles, mayonnaise, and ketchup on a New Orleans baguette style French bread.
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.
A New York style cheesecake with fresh blueberries, whipped cream and blueberry sauce added on top.
Bourbon Apple Dumplings
Apple halves wrapped individual pie crust and baked in a sweet apple bourbon sauce.
Smoked Salmon Pasta
This type of pasta dish consists of smoked well-seasoned salmon and penne pasta coated in a smoked well-seasoned pasta alfredo style sauce.
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.
Pork & beans and rice 2026 version
Van Camps pork and beans with butter sugar onion smoked sausage and bacon over rice.
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.
Homemade Key Lime pie
A custard-based lime filling with a graham cracker crust
Seafood stuffed mushrooms
Mushroom shells stuffed with shrimp and crabmeat.
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"
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.
This chowder consists of seasoned chicken breasts, broccoli and potatoes in a creamy, well-seasoned cheese sauce.
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.
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.
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.
Snickerdoodle pound cake
Resembles a snickerdoodle cookie but it's made into a cake. It consists of a moist butter vanilla pound cake with a crunchy cinnamon sugar skin all around the cake.
Mc Kenzie's Traditional King Cake
This type of King Cake consists of a Brioche style bread with a simple syrup and purple green and gold sugar sprinkles on top. No icings or fillings added.
New Orleans Shrimp boil
Shrimp cooked until tender and soaked in a highly seasoned liquid before serving.
