There’s a reason we all love that homecooked southern food style of cooking, delicious comfort food that is hard to resist. Foods like Gumbo, Banana Pudding, Fried Chicken, Collard Greens. It’s all foods you can imagine your grandma fixing that drives your whole family together to eat.
Following is a list of my favorite 20 Southern Food Bloggers, that, if you are always looking for recipes and ideas of what to cook for your family, you should be following them;
Lana Stuart is the cook and occasional traveler at Never Enough Thyme. Lana has been cooking since she was tall enough to reach the stove and started this blog in 2009 to share her delicious home cooking recipes. You'll find about 700 recipes there so there's sure to be something your family will like.
Stacey Lynn has a love of southern food which came from living in Texas, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida as well as spending time in Arkansas where her mama lives. She says, "I may not have been born in the South but I got here as fast as I could. Mama will tell you I wasn’t much of a cook growing up but as times change and life throws you lemons, you gotta make lemonade. So I got myself in the kitchen and learned how to cook good wholesome food for my son and fell in love with the process."
Joy grew up in the kitchen in between her father, who makes a mean Sweet Potato Pie, and mother, who is a self-taught cake decorator. Between both kitchen loving-parents, the clinking cake pans, and the flying flour, it became clear that baking was in her blood.
She moved from California to New Orleans, Louisiana in 2014 inspired by the people, the culture, and the beignets. That’s where she does a majority of her living, working, eating, cocktailing and related horsing around.
Southern Kitchen is based in Atlanta, Georgia, and is focused on delivering the best in eating, drinking and entertaining. They celebrate the chefs who are redefining what it means to “cook Southern.” Drink cocktails made from Southern spirit companies. They help you throw authentic oyster roasts and low country boils. At the hub of it all is their recipe collection, a carefully curated and expansive collection of recipes that they are continuously testing, improving and growing (with your help, of course.)
Jackie Garvin is the personality behind the blog - Syrup and Biscuits. It's a Southern food blog that champions the best the South has to offer: simple food with modern and vintage recipes, beloved traditions, a focus on family and bountiful gratitude for many blessings. She says, "We love company and we're mighty happy you joined us."
Rachel is the publisher of A Southern Fairytale, a food blog and journal of her ever after, Southern-style with her Harley ridin’, DIY handy-man husband, and their two 8th generation Texan children.
Since the inception of A Southern Fairytale in 2007, Rachel’s ability to tell stories through words, photos, and food has earned her both a large and loyal online audience and long-term relationships as both Blog Ambassador and Recipe Developer with major food brands including Zatarain’s, Bush’s Beans, Carnival Cruise Lines, Pillsbury, California Avocado Commission, and Minute Maid.
Vianney is an Award-Winning Food Blogger, Recipe Developer and the Author of The Tex Mex Slow Cooker and Latin Twist. "In South Texas, we love to entertain and spend time in the company of good people. Sweet Life is a celebration of that connection and the vibrant, unique culture of South Texas."
After participating in countless boutiques selling crafts, home decor and baked goods, and after the birth of her second child, Kristyn decided to start Lil' Luna. She had never read a non-family blog before, but was constantly being asked for recipes or craft how-to’s and thought a blog would be a great way to share them. After seven years, four additional children, three moves and countless family & business adventures, she's still sharing ideas on the site and have been blessed to turn Lil' Luna into a thriving business.
Jocelyn Delk Adams is the founder, author, national television personality and brand ambassador behind the award winning cookbook Grandbaby Cakes and the food website Grandbaby-Cakes.com, which gives her family’s, particularly her grandmother’s, cherished generational recipes her modern spin while preserving the most important ingredient- tradition.
The Stay at Home Chef is spearheaded by Rachel Farnsworth. "This is the place where I share restaurant quality recipes you can easily make at home. I’m bringing back the family dinner in a really delicious way!"
Blair, a born-and-raised Virginian, wife, mother of three, and busy home cook - shows her love with food and enjoys feeding friends and family with the comforting dishes that she grew up on.
Once Amanda Batcher started cooking, she quickly discovered an intense passion and started cooking her way through all her cookbooks. This moved on to baking as well, and she never looked back!
She started The Chunky Chef in October 2014 and discovered another passion… sharing recipes and kitchen adventures with all her readers.
"You don’t have to be a culinary arts graduate to cook great meals! My recipes contain helpful tips and tricks, as well as easy to follow step by step directions."
Rachel's blog Feast and Farm shares make ahead meals, helping her readers choose naturally sweetened desserts over a store bought cookie and keeping the decadent stuff as a special treat and not an everyday event. At Feast and farm it's:
- Everyday ingredients
- Basic cooking techniques
- Simple kitchen tools, and lots of success!
Susannah Brinkley Henry is a blogger from North Carolina who likes to write about travel as well as food. Feast + West is a blog where she writes about her adventures. She says, "Here you’ll find recipes, travel guides and tips for cooking and entertaining to help you indulge in your life, too."
The Southern Lady Cooks was started by Judy Yeager. It was her desire and passion to create a community of people that truly enjoyed cooking. She set out to share southern recipes that are easy and delicious along with dishes your grandmother would have made. The website has over 1200 recipes! Their food philosophy is that food should be fabulous but not hard to prepare. You will find easy delicious southern recipes that anyone can make along with the old classics that made southern food SOUTHERN.
Although Holly from spend with Pennies is not actually a 'Southern cook' so to speak, I can't help but get that homecooked comfort food vibe from the recipes on her site - which is practically Southern right there! Which is why her blog Spend with Pennies made it to this list.
Brandie is a regular home cook, like most of you, doing her best to get a good meal on the table for her family. She says, "I like to say the recipes on here are recipes for the busy cook (you know who you are!) You can still get a good meal on the table, with a few shortcuts to help you along the way. I hope you'll find lots of recipes here that you'll love and hopefully will become family favorites."
Blogger Christin Mahrlig loves trying new foods and experimenting in the kitchen, they are her greatest passions. Her blog Spicy Southern Kitchen has some truly classic southern recipes that are absolutely delicious.
Mandy Rivers, self-taught cook loves family, food and friends. She created the site 'South Your Mouth' to help bring a collection of recipes from Weeknight meals to true Southern Classics to everyone's table. She has sprinkled in just enough humor and disfunction to let everyone know she's real and flawed just like you and me.
Feeding people makes Stacey Little happy. It’s just about as plain and simple as that. "There are few things in this world that I delight more in than my family and friends gathered around my table enjoying a meal. The truth is, food makes most people happy – regardless of the chance it might also make them fat. In the South, we celebrate everything with food: birthdays, anniversaries, funerals and football games. It’s just one of the many ways a Southerner expresses love to another person. We feed them."
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