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Tomato Butter

August 11, 2013 by The Runaway Spoon 10 Comments

I spend a great deal of time in the summer putting up gorgeous fresh tomatoes for winter. Almost as much time as I do eating them. Ziptop bags full of sauce and soup base. Salsa, bloody mary mix and chutney in jars. And this, my favorite tomato condiment. I discovered recipes for tomato butter in several very old community cookbooks. The kind of recipes that call for a peck of … [Read more...] about Tomato Butter

Southern Baked Shelly Beans

July 21, 2013 by The Runaway Spoon 2 Comments

  My go to baked bean dish for many years has been my Brilliant Baked Beans made with a variety of canned beans.  And I love those beans.  But eventually, I started fiddling around with dried beans to recreate memories of New England style baked beans I’d enjoyed when I lived in the area.  I like those too.  Then I started to find fresh shelly beans and October beans at … [Read more...] about Southern Baked Shelly Beans

Maque Choux (Cajun Stewed Corn and Tomatoes)

July 29, 2012 by The Runaway Spoon 4 Comments

Maque Choux distills the essence of summer into every bite.  Admittedly, its first attraction may be the fun name. Pronounced mock shoe, it is a corruption of a French word or an Indian saying, or just straight up Acadian, depending on whom you ask.  It is a traditional Cajun dish which occasionally makes it onto the menus of New Orleans-style restaurants, but more often than … [Read more...] about Maque Choux (Cajun Stewed Corn and Tomatoes)

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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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