“Rosie is my go-to when it comes to recipes.”  —Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times -bestselling author of The Hate U Give and On the Come Up Rosie Mayes, author of I Heart Soul Food , and creator of I Heart Recipes, serves up 100+ amped-up, super soul food recipes—including fan favorites—guaranteed to bring her cousins joy! If I Heart Soul Food left you satisfied yet also hungry for more, you're going to love Super Soul Food with Cousin Rosie ! Here, Rosie shares more of her comfort soul food dishes, starting with traditional southern and creole favorites and jazzing them up with her own "special sauce."   Rosie organizes these recipes by type of meal and adds in side dishes, breads, drinks to sip on, as well as a chapter of over-the-top desserts that make her fans swoon! Included are some of her most sought-after fan favorites (only available online until now), including: Southern Baked Macaroni and Cheese Casserole - Seafood Boil with Creole Garlic Sauce - Red Velvet Biscuits   This is Rosie at her best, putting satisfying, soulful spins on classic, comfort southern and creole dishes, and also including her best loved fan favorites guaranteed to please old and new fans alike. “Rosie is my go-to when it comes to recipes.”  —Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times -bestselling author of The Hate U Give and On the Come Up "Rosie has hit it out of the ballpark yet again with Super Soul Food with Cousin Rosie . She's really brilliant when it comes to creating seasoning blends and recipes that are easy to follow." —Shayla Cowan, film and television producer  "I fell in love with Rosie's recipes from YouTube. I tried to pass them off as my own, but all of my friends and family know I can't cook like that. I am so amazed by her gift for making simple ingredients into complex, delicious meals. And what makes Rosie even more incredible is that she spells out every step so you cannot go wrong. People will believe that you are a master chef. I love Rosie and I'll tell the world about it!" —Lexi Allen, gospel singer, producer, actress, comedian, and television personality "Mayes ( I Heart Soul Food ) is back with a new collection of recipes straight from her weeknight kitchen. These everyday originals are fused with classic soul food roots but are designed for the modern practical kitchen...Fans of Mayes’s will love the wide variety of recipes that span feeding a crowd for the big game to simple weekday fare. This collection of fun and flavorful recipes will be a hit with patrons. Established fans of Mayes will clamor for the new recipes, while those just discovering her cooking will appreciate her modern yet practical twists on classics." —Library Journal ROSIE MAYES is the author of the popular cookbook, I Heart Soul Food and creator of the blog and YouTube channel I Heart Recipes (IHeartRecipes.com). She learned to cook from her Louisiana-born family. Twelve years ago, she started her YouTube channel when she was working 12-hour days as a certified nursing assistant, but her platform grew quickly, and five years ago she quit her day job to devote herself to I Heart Recipes . Introduction Welcome to my house, where everyone is welcome and we do big, bold, soul food flavors that might surprise you…with that little something extra you’ve come to know, love, and crave from your Cousin Rosie. In this, my second book, I’m building on my Cajun and Creole Louisiana roots and mixing them up 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 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 I’m going to share that journey with you. Here you’ll find brand new and fan favorite recipes, all of them classic soul food with a little Cousin Rosie twist. My first book, I Heart Soul Food, contained all the traditional dishes of my youth, and classic recipes we know and love, and in this book, I’ve taken the soul food classics I love so much and made them sing--they’re brighter, bolder, saucier, and the volume has been turned way up! You’ll be asking yourself why you never made a cheesesteak lasagna before! And you’ll certainly be adding my grandmother Rosa Mae’s waffle fried chicken to your weeknight lineup.   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. I’d pat pork chops into the breading and hand them over to her to fry. Eating this food, then beginning to make it, set up a lifelong love for preparing dishes that both feed the body and warm your heart.   My mother was a hardworking single mom. She’d bring me along with her, my gran