On the kind of crisp October day that makes you long for good friends and good food, pandemic be damned, I found myself in a sunny kitchen in Marion, Alabama, learning how to make chicken &
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Food
How to Bake a Buttermilk Chess Pie
Originally published April 6, 2011.
Pie is the new cupcake. Did you know that? That's why I've spent the last month
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How to Bake Biscuits with Chef Scott Peacock
Biscuits are containers of memory and emotion.~ Chef Scott Peacock
In March 2019, when the camellias were fully
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Muscadines are Autumn’s Wild Grapes
The muscadine season in Georgia lasts just a couple of months in autumn, but like it is with the sweetest watermelons of
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Rice Pudding, for Cheryl
Here's a popular story from the first incarnation of A Cook and Her Books. It's the simplest dessert I know, rice
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Luscious Lemon Cream Cheese Pound Cake (for National Pound Cake Day)
I'm not sure how or why there is a National Pound Cake Day, but here it is the 4th day of March, in the holiday lull
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On Valentine’s Day, bake biscotti for those you love
On Valentine’s Day, we celebrate the ones we love and what better way to celebrate than by baking? Chocolate is
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Not My Mama’s Black Eyed Peas & Greens
This recipe first appeared on my blogspot blog December 26, 2010.
Visit my mom’s house on New Year’s Day and you
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Crispy, sweet date candies
Anyone else remember these sweet treats from their childhood? I'm revisiting the Christmas treats of my youth this year,
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A grapefruit drink from Chef David Tanis
I’ve come to believe that home food is best, but it’s not often an opinion that you will hear expressed by a world-class
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