Do You Really Cook All the Recipes You Post? Here’s the Truth!

Welcome back to Coffee and Conversation, where we answer your questions and chat about life behind the scenes at Front Porch Life and The Southern Lady Cooks. This is where we answer YOUR questions, so if you have one, feel free to ask it in the comments below.

Here is the question:

“Do you ladies really cook all the recipes, or do you have people that do it for you and you put them on your site?”-Margaret S.

YES! We cook every single recipe we post!

This is a great question, and in today’s age, with so many AI images and websites on the internet…It’s SUPER IMPORTANT!

Yes, we cook EVERY SINGLE RECIPE on this website and of course, The Southern Lady Cooks. We feature dishes that have been served in our family for generations, alongside delicious new ones we’re just discovering. We share what we love, and we always have. 💗

Mom started sharing our family recipes when she retired from state government. It was a hobby and a labor of love. Even now, with Anne and me running the site full-time and adding this website and Front Porch Life Magazine, it’s still all about the food and the memories we have made and will continue to make when preparing and serving it. Like our Nannie’s old-fashioned banana pudding or Southern jam cake, our grandmother’s pound cake….these recipes have been in our family for over 80 years, and it brings us so much joy to share them with our readers.

“This recipe takes me down memory lane to my early years in Tennessee. I can see my grandma in the kitchen making banana pudding, pretty much the same way y’all do. Thank you Leigh and Anne for helping me relive some memories of my childhood with my grandma. She would be proud of your banana pudding! ..Vernon

When we create new recipes, it comes from what we want to eat and enjoy. Just like the 3 Day Coconut Cake…I found it in an old church book from the 70s. I had never heard of it, so I just had to make it. I changed it a little bit, and we all loved it! As soon as I took a bite, I was immediately taken straight back to my Nannie’s kitchen. I called Mom and said, “I swear, Nannie used to make this cake!” It’s so much fun to find those recipes, and I couldn’t wait to share them with our readers.

If we all rave about it, then it’s a winner, and it gets featured on one of our websites or in our magazine. Trust me when I say, there have been plenty that you’ve never seen. 🤣 Not all our creations are winners; plenty have been bland or just flat didn’t work, and those get thrown away. I guess what I’m saying is…if we didn’t love it, you ain’t gonna see it. 😉

I really feel that our readers have come to trust our opinion and know that each recipe is authentic home cooking made by US and truly tested in our kitchens.

Our cooking process is a bit different from that of probably other food bloggers. Since there are three of us, working out of three kitchens, and we’ve now built the cooking cottage! That’s another entry, but I’ll go into the details if there is interest.

I hope this answers your question, and you absolutely know that if you see our name on it…it came FROM US! From our heart to yours and from our kitchen to your table…it’s just what we love to do.

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