Kardea Brown shares down-home, Southern eats from her South Carolina kitchen. She takes generations of family recipes and makes them her own as she cooks for family and friends at her Sea Island home.
EPISODE 1
Lighter Side of Soul Food
Kardea Brown cooks up light, classic Southern dishes; veggie soup bunch inspired by Grandma; flaky pecan and panko-crusted baked fish with mashed parsnips; blackberry lavender cornmeal cake.
EPISODE 2
Puppy Play Date
Kardea Brown makes a Mediterranean-inspired lunch for a play date at the dog park, with grilled chicken shawarma gyro, delicious couscous and chickpea salad, bundt pan baklava and peanut butter pup cakes.
EPISODE 3
Campfire Eats
For a night of backyard camping with her nephews and nieces, Kardea Brown is cooking brisket and bean chili with sweet mini corn muffins and vegetable medley sauté; s'mores cereal treats are perfect for everyone to enjoy around the fire.
EPISODE 4
Fun Park Feast
Kardea Brown is cooking up some Tex-Mex flavors to celebrate her friend's birthday; she makes a cheesy birria dip, elote burger sliders and summer squash salad with a smoky agave vinaigrette, with pineapple upside-down cupcakes for dessert.
EPISODE 5
Fresh Is Best
Kardea Brown is joined by pal Nancy Fuller to make a meal with farm-fresh ingredients; the menu includes lemony herb shrimp scampi over Middlins Risotto and Collard Green Salad with a BBQ vinaigrette.
EPISODE 6
Mamas Who Lunch
Kardea Brown hosts a Mother's Day lunch for her childhood best friends; she is cooking up Scalloped Potato-Stuffed Chicken, Sugar Snap Pea Salad with Roasted Grapes and a Lemon Meringue Pie.
Kardea Brown
Jonathan Bennett