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Traditional Pound Cake

October 24, 2010 by The Runaway Spoon 41 Comments

Pound cake was one of my first baking exercises. For many years I had a basic cream cheese pound cake recipe that I made often, sometimes with added flavors. For most of this time, I honestly did not know that the name pound cake comes from the original ingredients – a pound of each.As I got more interested in cooking and learning about recipes and where they came from, I had … [Read more...] about Traditional Pound Cake

Pasta Butter Balls

September 6, 2010 by The Runaway Spoon 9 Comments

One lazy evening, on a desperate-for-dinner freezer scrounge, I came across a half used log of frozen herbed butter – a beurre composée if you will.  I like to make these with the summer glut of herbs and roll them into waxed paper wrapped logs.  This butter has myriad uses, but I mostly use it for grilling.  When you have a really good piece of meat, simply grilled, it doesn’t … [Read more...] about Pasta Butter Balls

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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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