Rosie Mayes - Super Soul Food with Cousin Rosie: 100+ Modern Twists on Comfort Food Classics

Have you ever been to a good friends house and from the time you walked through their door, slipped off your shoes, and sat on their couch, you were at ease? The foods on, the drinks on its way to you, and you can just relax and be yourself. Its a rare treat to find a friend like this. The only thing thats required of you is that you be truly yourself. This is the Rosie Mayes Ive come to know over the last several years. Rosie is a woman who makes you feel like you can truly just be who you are, no questions asked. She is strong, determined, and wise. She has a light touch in her cooking and an old soul.

I first met Rosie three years ago, but I immediately felt like Id known her for years. I had recently begun cooking through and styling her first book, I Heart Soul Food, and I knew immediately that she was special. We met at a Seattle studio, the plan being to photograph a few of the dishes in the book and to make some portraits of Rosie. When she threw on a little Cardi B during the cover shoot, I knew Rosie was the real one. From that point on, Rosie has become more than a client. Shes the friend youve always wanted to have in your corner.

Soul food asks you to share. Soul food asks you to give. And soul food asks you to love in a way you might not have before. Its a style of cooking that is abundant and spicy and loaded with flavor. Rosie gave me a look at a way of cooking and of living that keeps me coming back for more. Her fun and straightforward point of view in the kitchen is exactly what every home cook needs.

Rosies imprint in the food and cooking world is electric and authentic. She is asking no ones permission and living her life out in a way that is so dang inspiring. With this follow-up book, Super Soul Food with Cousin Rosie, I cant even begin to tell you how brilliant the food truly is. Its got the right amount of kick and love and heat! Its got soul, style, and a life all its own that is an extension of the Rosie we know and love.

Get into your kitchen, get with your people, and dont stop cooking. You will be a better cook for learning from herprepare to level up! Soul food Rosie-style has a way of doing that. This woman is the real deal, one of a kind. Enjoy!

Danielle Kartes

Welcome to my house, where everyone is invited and we do big, bold, soul food flavors that might surprise youwith that little something extra youve come to know, love, and crave from your Cousin Rosie. In this, my second book, Im building on my Cajun and Creole Louisiana roots and combining them with my Pacific Northwest love for seafood and fresh flavors. On my blog (IHeartRecipes.com), my YouTube channel (I Heart Recipes), and in my first book (I Heart Soul Food), I brought my Southern roots into my Seattle kitchen and shared with the world everything my mom taught me, everything my grandmother taught her, and all my inherited, long-nurtured love of soul food.

The recipes in this book represent a time in my life when I am growing and changing, and Im going to share that journey with you. Here youll find brand-new and fan-favorite recipes, all of them classic soul food with a little Cousin Rosie twist. My first book contained all the traditional dishes of my youth and classic recipes we know and love, and in this book, Ive taken the soul food I love so much and made it singthe dishes are brighter, bolder, saucier, and the volume has been turned way up! Youll be asking yourself why you never made a Philly cheesesteak lasagna before! And youll certainly be adding my grandmother Rosa Maes waffle fried chicken to your lineup.

My love of soul food started early. I was just three or four when my aunt Frances first brought me into the kitchen and let me cook alongside her. I just did what she did, playing and learning at the same time. Eating that food, then beginning to make it, set up a lifelong respect for preparing dishes that both feed the body and warm the heart. By the time I was five, I had stepped up to the stove to make real food by myself, cooking up a big ol batch of my favorite spaghetti, which became my signature dish. Everyone in the family makes something theyre known for. These are dishes that the family looks forward to! To this day, I make my spaghetti just the same way I did at five. Its a winner.