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Real recipes for real people. The dishes from the videos — full ingredients, full directions, right here, free.
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Featured Recipes
Straight out of Cooking with Upgrade: Deep South, Louisiana Style — the full recipes, not teasers.
Classic Chicken & Sausage Gumbo
The one that started it all — dark roux, tender chicken, smoky andouille. This is Louisiana in a bowl.
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Shrimp Jambalaya
One pot, big flavor — the red jambalaya that feeds a crowd.
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Crawfish Étouffée
Same étouffée you love, extra sauce for mopping with crusty bread.
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Shrimp and Grits, Louisiana style
Creamy cheesy grits under peppery shrimp and bacon. Louisiana comfort, perfected.
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Bananas Foster
Bananas flambéed in rum and brown sugar over ice cream. Show-off dessert.
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Love this recipe? There are hundreds more where it came from. All three Cooking with Upgrade cookbooks by Yamin Smalls — real recipes for real people.
Cooking with Upgrade
48 recipes worth making on repeat — the viral favorites that started it all.
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Deep South, Louisiana Style
Gumbo, jambalaya, étouffée and more — the full Louisiana cookbook, including every recipe on this page.
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Ready, Set, Sauce
116 signature sauces — from Cowboy Butter to Bang Bang — to level up anything you cook.
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