Capital Kitchen: Dorothy’s Kitchen in Baton Rouge has home -cooked meals, desserts – AOL

Baton Rouge, La. (Brproud) – From red beans and rice to cabbage and corn bread, southern Louisiana knows something or two about the food of the soul.

A small kitchen at Baton Rouge serves dishes full of taste and love. Let’s take you there for the capital this week.

“It’s a rural kitchen, it’s a small country kitchen,” said Dena Gelley-Griffin, the owner of the Dorothy’s Soul Food Kitchen kitchen.

Located on Gardere Lane, Dorothy’s Soul Food Kitchen has been cooking hot meals for nearly three decades.

Grilly-Griffin, a graduate of Southern University, is the daughter of the name of the kitchen and has been running the show for the last 24 years.

“So my mother was from here, Louisiana,” Graley-Griffin said. “She was born and grew up, but moved to New York and left here when she was 16 and went to New York and stayed there for 23, 24 years. And she said, “Do you know what? I will bring my roots back and cook there, because in New York she’s cooking as if she was cooking here -there. We had restaurants there. But they did not do too well because they were not used to the southern cuisine. “

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Grilly-rifin uses those lessons learned by her mother. She serves home -cooked dishes in an atmosphere that makes you feel welcome.

“I love it, I have been doing it for five years,” said Grilly-Griffin. “I have eight siblings, so my mother made me enter the kitchen with her and cook. She said, “You have to cook everything from scratch. Everything had to be perfect. You can’t have anyone to cook your food. I can’t let anyone cook. “

Along the walls of Dorothy, there are several lifting messages that Da Dennet says that she hopes to illuminate her guests’ day.

“I love inspirational things,” said Grely-Griffin. “I like people to enter. Many people say, “We come here and read all your things and it raises our spirit. “

But if the messages don’t handle you, I can name something or two on the menu that could just.

“Stewed chicken and stewed pork chops-and we make homemade sweet potatoes here,” Graley-Griffin said. We make all our desserts, homemade bread pudding. “

So, transfer your appetite to Dorothy, where Mrs. Dennet and her family, you will treat you as your family.

“Come and get great homemade food,” Grilly-Griffin said. “We do everything from scratch and put all our love into it.”

Da Dena also says she hopes to have a mobile cuisine in the future to take his business around South, LSU and other places in the capital.

But for now, you can visit Dorothy at 1221 Gardere LN. Open weekly from Wednesday to Sunday.

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