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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kardea Brown prepares a steakhouse burger and crispy home fries; roasted fennel with apple cider reduction; bananas foster upside-down cake.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.