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Homemade Bloody Mary Mix (with canning instructions)

August 14, 2011 by The Runaway Spoon 62 Comments

When tomatoes are is season, or growing on my vines if I’m lucky, I preserve them in any way I can think of.  I make sauce, tomato soup base and just plain old puree and stack them up in ziptop bags in the freezer.  Sometimes I can whole tomatoes, but now I’ve learned you can freeze them whole for later cooking.  This year, I’ve been looking for a new and … [Read more...] about Homemade Bloody Mary Mix (with canning instructions)

Cherry Bounce

June 22, 2011 by The Runaway Spoon 39 Comments

Cherry season is beginning, or at least fresh cherries are showing up in the markets here.  We don’t grow cherries locally, so when I start to see them at the grocery, I buy them up.  I love cherries, so I try to make the season last as long as possible.  I bake with the beauties, make preserves, and frankly, just leave a basket on the counter and eat them throughout the day.  … [Read more...] about Cherry Bounce

Freshly Minted Lemonade

May 25, 2011 by The Runaway Spoon 4 Comments

This weekend marks the unofficial beginning of summer.  That means vacations and swimming and long, lazy days and all sorts of good things.  But, for my part of the world at least, it also means heat and humidity.  So a tall, cool drink is always in order. There is just something so refreshing about tangy lemonade, and at this time of year, with the mint plants beginning to … [Read more...] about Freshly Minted Lemonade

Honeysuckle Cordial

May 15, 2011 by The Runaway Spoon 11 Comments

  I have an unruly privet hedge.  I know it can look a little shaggy and overgrown.  I know my neighbor doesn’t like it. Landscapers have tried to clean out my hedge, make it neat and groomed.  But at the end of April every year, and again, briefly, in September, that privet is wildly overrun with honeysuckle.  And I adore honeysuckle.  I stand in the driveway in the … [Read more...] about Honeysuckle Cordial

Pimm’s Cup

April 27, 2011 by The Runaway Spoon 3 Comments

The build up to the royal wedding continues, and I feel that it is time to share my instructions for the perfect, the quintessential British cocktail, Pimm’s Cup.  Pimm’s is a liqueur, with a long held secret recipe, the subject of much speculation.  You’ll find it at any good liquor store in the liqueur section.  There is nothing better than a tall, icy glass of Pimm’s on a … [Read more...] about Pimm’s Cup

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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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