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Sweet Tea Pecans

December 5, 2012 by The Runaway Spoon 1 Comment

I don’t know that I have ever attended a holiday party where there wasn’t a pretty little bowl full of seasoned nuts. Sometimes a silver or cut crystal bowl, sometimes shaped like Santa or a Christmas tree, usually on the bar or an end table.  And there are always people hovering around, picking up one or two nuts, but eyeing the bowl like they want to plunge their hand in and … [Read more...] about Sweet Tea Pecans

Fresh Corn Buttermilk Biscuits

July 31, 2011 by The Runaway Spoon 6 Comments

  I like books about people who do things.  This summer I have been reading the Little House on the Prairie series, and boy do they do things.  Make their own clothes, their own food – even their own house.  I have a list of books I have enjoyed that detail the work of women in the kitchen, baking bread, tending gardens, canning produce, collecting their own … [Read more...] about Fresh Corn Buttermilk Biscuits

Blackberry Sugar Pie

July 3, 2011 by The Runaway Spoon 9 Comments

If you scroll through the Sweets section on The Runaway Spoon, you may notice a host of very simple pie recipes.  Because I think pie is a perfect dessert, for the cook and the consumer.  The variety of wonderful things that can be packed into a pie crust is extraordinary.  And with little effort, you have a comforting treat that is sure to please.  Once you master a simple pie … [Read more...] about Blackberry Sugar Pie

Strawberry Buttermilk Cupcakes with Buttermilk Vanilla Frosting

May 8, 2011 by The Runaway Spoon 10 Comments

I love strawberry season.  Not only do I finally get my hands on delicious berries, but it really means the start of delicious farmers market produce.   I only buy strawberries in season.  I know you can get them all year round now, but I don’t like the watery,  hothouse types, or ones flown in from far away under ripe, then left to over-ripen and become sodden in plastic … [Read more...] about Strawberry Buttermilk Cupcakes with Buttermilk Vanilla Frosting

Royal Crown Short Ribs

February 13, 2011 by The Runaway Spoon 3 Comments

Cooking with cola is a Southern tradition undoubtedly dates back to the days when the first glass bottles clinked onto the shelves of the Piggly Wiggly and the Jitney Jungle.  Frankly, in most parts of the South, cola means Atlanta’s own Coca-Cola, or as we call it Co-cola.  I love to cook with cola, from rich chocolaty co-cola cakes to ribs cooked in root beer.  I have even … [Read more...] about Royal Crown Short Ribs

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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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