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Biscuit on a black plate and a blue napkin

Food Travel

Back to the Biscuit Kitchen with Chef Scott Peacock

Driving in central Alabama in October with my daughter Laura riding shotgun in the Subaru, the cosmos were in bloom and
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Slice of chess pie on a white plate with blue rim

Food

Try My Buttermilk Chess Pie Recipe

This is the most popular story on my original A Cook and Her Books blog. I wrote it up in April 2011, and 10 years
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Banana bread loaf slices on a cutting board

Food

Try My Banana Bread Recipe

This banana bread recipe first appeared in A Cook and Her Books June 14, 2011. I've tried quite a few banana bread
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Baked jam bar

Food

Strawberry Jam Bars (Gluten-Free) Recipe

Everybody needs at least one go-to sweets recipe that you can make at the drop of a hat and take anywhere. For school or
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Buttermilk chess pie in a pan

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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Food Travel

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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Lemon pound cake on a cake plate

Food

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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Food

Favorite Southern Christmas cookies

“Oh Buddy, I think it’s fruitcake weather,” goes the opening line to one of the best short stories ever written (and
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