

The Garden Gate Recipe Collection
The Southern Soul Buffet
~~This is a full blown buffet of love, flavor & down home goodness! Soul Food, historically, uses the lower cost cuts of whatever meat is involved for a dish, and makes it top shelf with herbs, spices and slow cooking! The flavors have time to really infuse into each dish, and this spells nothing but 'deliciousness'!
The slow cooked meats in saucy gravy, beans in richly flavored sauces, fluffy white rice for soaking up gravies, slow cooked greens and green beans, and the creamy side dishes! Oh, yes! The decision making will be hard on this one!
This Southern Soul Buffet is ever so appropriate for any landmark birthday, memorial, class reunion or family reunion!!

The flavor is outstanding in this slow cooked meal of boneless beef ribs cut into large chunks for a hearty plate!

Not quite sliced, but not shredded, this tender brisket is finished with a Sweet & Tangy Hickory or Mesquite BBQ Sauce.


The flavor is outstanding in this slow cooked meal of boneless beef ribs cut into large chunks for a hearty plate!
Soul Food Mains
These are, almost, all slow cooked dishes that any Southern Grandma would be proud of! The few that are not slow cooked are awesome too!
~ Southern Fried Chicken (Gravy side)
~ Soul Smothered Chicken in Gravy
~ Southern Fried Pork Chops (Gravy side)
~ Smothered Pork Chops in Onion Gravy
~ Southern Braised Pork Neckbones in Gravy
~ Smothered Boneless Pork Ribs in Gravy
~ Slow Cooked Baby Back Ribs in Gravy
~ Oven BBQ Brisket
~ Boneless Beef Ribs in Gravy
~ Brown Sugar Honey Glazed Ham
You'll want some rice, dressing or mashed potatoes on the buffet, for the luscious gravy!



Almost a side, but almost a main, this dish is full of fabulous Southern charm! Great over rice!

Soul Sides
~ Southern Green Beans Potatoes & Ham
~ Southern Braised Cabbage
~ Southern Black Eyed Peas
~ Stewed Okra, Tomatoes & corn
~ Southern Red Beans
~ Baked Beans with Bacon
~ Baked Candied Yams
~ Macaroni & Cheese
~ Southern Soul Collards
~ Milk & Honey Corn on the Cob
~ Stewed Green Beans & Tomatoes
~ Creamy Cheese Grits
~ Mashed Potatoes
~ Steamed White Rice
~ Cornbread Dressing
Appetizers
~ Soul Roll Pork & Greens Wontons
~ Pimiento Cheese on Ritz
~ Sweet Soul Niblets (BBQ Pork Riblets Bites)
~ Classic Deviled Eggs




Sweet Endings!
The perfect Soul Sweets to finish!
~ Chocolate Sheet Cake
~ Lemon Sheet Cake
~ Banana Pudding
~ Mississippi Mud Cake
~ 7-Up Cake
~ Lemon Buttermilk Pound Cake
~ Pineapple Upside Down Cake
~ Choclate Sheet Cake & PB Frosting
~ Butter Pecan Sheet Cake
~ Italian Cream Sheet Cake
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