About this season
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.
Episodes (13)
1. Grilling Out with the Girls
Aired 6 September 2020
Kardea Brown plans the perfect menu to celebrate the end of summer with her girlfriends; she grills jerk chicken and pineapple skewers along with sweet and savory grilled corn and makes sweet heat baked beans and frozen spiked mojito pops.
2. Lowcountry Lunch
Aired 13 September 2020
Kardea Brown invites a friend over to sit by the creek, share a great meal and watch the world go by; her menu includes a seafood salad roll with Charleston shrimp and blue crab, homemade seasoned chips and Creekside custard cups.
3. Berry Delicious Brunch
Aired 20 September 2020
Kardea and her nieces are out on the farm to pick blueberries for brunch; she whips up fluffy blueberry ricotta pancakes with blueberry-honey sauce, cheesy baked eggs with potatoes and mustard greens and a honey orangeade.
4. Grillin' and Chillin'
Aired 27 September 2020
Kardea invites friends over for an afternoon Lowcountry cookout; on the menu are grilled mahi sandwiches, grilled shrimp macaroni salad and grilled potatoes tossed with EVOO and chives; for something sweet, Kardea whips up a berry dump cake.
5. Southern Table
Aired 4 October 2020
Kardea Brown is cooking up fried chicken with hot honey sauce, Hoppin' John and sauteed green beans with garlic and pepper; for dessert, apple raspberry cobbler with a biscuit top.
6. Big Apple Down South
Aired 11 October 2020
Kardea Brown's friend from New York City is visiting; Kardea is whipping up seafood pizza with local shrimp, Charleston tea and Big Apple crumb cheesecake.
7. My Sweets!
Aired 18 October 2020
Kardea Brown invites friends over for a dessert party; a dressed-up carrot cake with apples, raisins, pineapple and a caramel drizzle; Kardea's ultimate chocolate chip cookies and homemade buttery fingers.
8. Insta-licious
Aired 25 October 2020
Kardea Brown prepares a steakhouse burger and crispy home fries; roasted fennel with apple cider reduction; bananas foster upside-down cake.
9. Comfort Cooking with Ma
Aired 7 November 2020
Ma's coming by for dinner, so Kardea Brown is cooking up some of her favorite comfort food classics, including Carolina smothered chicken with creamy mustard sauce, wild rice with mushrooms, roasted broccoli salad and sweet potato cheesecake.
10. All About the Sides
Aired 14 November 2020
Kardea Brown is keeping Thanksgiving intimate with a special meal for Ma and Grandma; Grandma always brings the turkey, so Kardea is taking on the sides, with candied yams, oyster stuffing and cranberry custard pie for dessert.
11. Dishes that Keep Giving
Aired 21 November 2020
Kardea Brown makes the most of a free day by preparing dishes that make perfect leftovers; first up is chicken pot pie, and she makes plenty of cheesy country ham grit balls with spicy mayo and some pan-roasted sage and butternut squash.
12. Miss Brown's Birthday!
Aired 28 November 2020
On her birthday, Kardea Brown cooks for two of her favorite ladies, Momma Pat and Aunt TC; she makes Carolina she-crab soup, red wine-braised beef short ribs atop creamy sweet potato polenta and a Southern tradition, hummingbird cake.
13. A Sea Island Christmas
Aired 5 December 2020
Kardea Brown makes a traditional Sea Island holiday menu starring maple-glazed Cornish hens; for sides, she makes the Lowcountry staple Limpin' Susan with shrimp and her grandma's green beans with potatoes and smoked turkey.