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Creole Daube

February 23, 2025 by The Runaway Spoon Leave a Comment

Creole Daube is one of those recipes I have seen in Louisiana community cookbooks for years and often marked with a little sticky note flag. Those recipes are usually the short and sweet type written by home cooks who could undoubtedly make it blindfolded. You know, a list of ingredients then directions like “brown meat, cook trinity, add tomato sauce, serve.” It’s always … [Read more...] about Creole Daube

New Orleans Barbecue Shrimp

January 28, 2024 by TheRunawaySpoon Leave a Comment

Mardi Gras is around the corner again, believe it or not, so I am dusting off one of my favorite classic New Orleans dishes – Barbecue Shrimp. Now, as a born and bred Memphian, I am very particular about what is and is not barbecue, and by that reckoning, this is not. No slow cooking, no smoke, no grill, no tomatoes or molasses in the sauce, just juicy shrimp in a deeply rich … [Read more...] about New Orleans Barbecue Shrimp

Sardou Dip (Spinach and Artichoke Dip with Hollandiase)

February 20, 2022 by TheRunawaySpoon 2 Comments

The inspiration for this dip is a menu. I don’t remember where or when, but some menu I saw online – either Instagram or researching restaurants or something a friend sent me - had a Sardou dip. I didn’t eat at the restaurant, but the dip idea really appealed to me, so I started from scratch. Eggs Sardou is a New Orleans brunch classic in the benedict vein, an artichoke bottom … [Read more...] about Sardou Dip (Spinach and Artichoke Dip with Hollandiase)

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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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