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Fresh Strawberry Buttermilk Bundt Cake

April 27, 2025 by The Runaway Spoon Leave a Comment

I get so excited about strawberry season, it is the harbinger of all the good spring and summer produce to come. I spend an inordinate amount of time making jam and developing recipes to use those berries that I don’t devour right out of hand. And generally, I am trying to think of something new and different – a “twist.”  But with this recipe, I am taking it back to basics. A … [Read more...] about Fresh Strawberry Buttermilk Bundt Cake

Cherry Almond Cream Muffins

March 23, 2025 by The Runaway Spoon Leave a Comment

The combination of cherry and almond is a favorite of mine, so that must have been the appeal when I stumbled across this recipe in Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison’s A Real American Breakfast Cookbook, which is something of a bible of breakfast recipes. I used to make these muffins all the time. I had a friend whose mother loved these, so I would always take her a batch … [Read more...] about Cherry Almond Cream Muffins

Plain Cake

March 9, 2025 by The Runaway Spoon Leave a Comment

Most of the older community cookbooks I have, even some reproductions of recipe books and “housekeeping manuals” from the 18th and 19th centuries have a recipe for Plain Cake. Sometimes it is used as a base for other things, like trifle, but mostly it just sits there on the page between the other more elaborate cakes. Easy to ignore or just flip past. This has been in … [Read more...] about Plain Cake

Festive Food Finds 2024

November 18, 2024 by The Runaway Spoon Leave a Comment

It’s that time again! I’ve put together my annual list of gifts for the food lover in your life (and that includes you)!  As always, these are just some personal favorites – no one has asked me to promote any products or compensated me in any way, though I may earn a small commission from Amazon sales. Photos used are from the vendors. And for more gift ideas, … [Read more...] about Festive Food Finds 2024

Festive Finds 2024

November 17, 2024 by The Runaway Spoon Leave a Comment

It’s that time again! I’ve put together my annual list of gifts for the food lover in your life (and that includes you)!  As always, these are just some personal favorites – no one has asked me to promote any products or compensated me in any way, though I may earn a small commission from Amazon sales. Photos used are from the vendors. And for more gift ideas, … [Read more...] about Festive Finds 2024

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I'm P.C. I think I am like most people. Somewhere in the middle between food snob and food schlub. Just being in the kitchen makes me happy. I live, mostly in my kitchen, in my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee.

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