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Cooked figs in a white bowl with a spoon on a napkin

Food Garden

Quick Fig Dessert Sauce Recipe

Figs are one of the delights of my late summer garden. Like blueberries, figs are easy to grow in a home landscape, at
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Fig cake crumbled in white bowl on plate with a spoon

Food

Fig Skillet Cake Recipe

Be sure to read garden expert Shelley Cramm's guest post on growing figs in your backyard. Here's my companion piece, a
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Chocolate cake slice on white place

Food

Chocolate Mint Layer Cake for Spring

In March 2011, I wrote a story about growing mint in my garden and baking a chocolate mint layer cake: Ah,
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Slice of lemon cheesecake lifted out of full cheesecake on cake stand

Food

Meyer Lemon Cheesecake with Biscoff Crust Recipe

Welcome to my most popular original recipe ~ Meyer Lemon Cheesecake with Biscoff Crust. In February 2012, I dreamed
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Pumpkin apple bread on a plate

Food

Pumpkin Apple Bread Recipe

Baking is part of fall's seduction. I say that I don't want summer to end, and that I don't like cold weather, period.
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Slice of chess pie on a white plate with blue rim

Food

Buttermilk Chess Pie Recipe on Food 52

In late 2020, the good folks at Food52 asked me to update my headnote to the Buttermilk Chess pie recipe. I added an
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Chocolate brownies cut into squares in a pan

Food

My Fudgy Brownie Recipe

I published this recipe February 5, 2010, to share the best brownie recipe I'd come across. I still make these today.
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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

Muscadine and Scuppernong Sorbet

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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