butter Archives - Framed Cooks

Mama’s Cream Cheese Pound Cake

Mar30

There is so much to love about this recipe for Mama’s Cream Cheese Pound Cake that I hardly know where to start! First and most importantly, it is coming to you not from my kitchen but from my friend Robyn’s…she is one of my best blogging friends and her beautiful Add A Pinch site has always been one of my inspirations. Second, it’s from her brand new, absolutely beautiful cookbook of delectable, easy Southern recipes, which I can’t stop reading over and over for all kinds of reasons (more on that below!). Third, I have three copies of this gorgeous, gorgeous cookbook to give away!

And last but certainly not least…this cake. Oh, this cake…a simple and simply scrumptious pound cake that was one of the first things Robyn learned to cook with her mama. It’s comfort food in cake form. It’s perfect. Let’s make it!

Spaghetti with Garlic Bread Crumb Wine Sauce

Mar9

Spaghetti with garlic bread crumb wine sauce is one of my favorite pasta recipes EVER, and every time I make this one the Southern husband and I look at each other and say, why don’t we make this more often? But absence makes the heart grow fonder, and I am VERY fond of how this looks, tastes, and is so very easy to throw together at the end of a long day. I need this. You need this. Let’s make it!

Chicken Piccata with Artichokes

Feb26

I thought I knew all there was to love about chicken piccata, which is chicken prepared with a lovely, buttery, lemony sauce. I make mine with chicken that has been dipped in a lemon butter sauce and spiced up flour, and then fried to golden perfection and finished in that delectable sauce. Yep, I was perfectly content with regular chicken piccata, until one day when a version of it that included artichoke hearts came to me in a vision.

And can I just say that while regular chicken piccata continues to be great, chicken piccata with tender artichoke hearts is pretty much heaven on earth? TRUTH. Let’s make it!

Parmesan Polenta Chicken Soup

Feb23

This soup is reason number 1,284,735 that I always make extra chicken when I am making chicken for other reasons, because leftover chicken means you can make things like this creamy, dreamy parmesan polenta chicken soup in a snap. If you have ever had a bowl of warm and wonderful polenta, just imagine it in soup form with chicken and baby spinach swirled into it, and a drizzle of olive oil on top. And if you haven’t ever had a bowl of polenta…well, you have a great treat to look forward to, because polenta is Comfort Food Extraordinaire. Ready for warm and wonderful soup deliciousness? Let’s make it!

My Mama’s Potted Cheese

Feb9

This recipe for potted cheese is one that is indelibly etched in my childhood memories. My mama would often make it for dinner parties, and I remember my brother and I being allowed to stay up late in our pajamas to help pass the hors d’oeuvres, which included rumaki, pineapple chunks wrapped in bacon, and this potted cheese. It was the height of elegance, and while we had to go to bed before the main course so I don’t have any intel on what that tended to be (maybe my mama will leave a comment and enlighten us) I still remember the deliciousness that was this tangy spreadable cheese in its cute little pot. Let’s go back in time and make it!

Grilled Steak and Scallions

Jul21

One of the things I like about this recipe for grilled steak and scallions is that it gives scallions the proper love and respect they deserve. They are as good a veggie as their cousins the summer squash and the broccoli and the asparagus and all the other green things that tend to end up on our plates next to our grilled steak. Not that I have anything at all against any of those veggies, but I’m here to tell you that if you give a bunch of scallions a drizzle of olive oil and pop them on your grill until you get a nice char, and then pop them on the plate with some sea salt and some chopped onion and sliced grilled steak and a little glug of butter over the whole thing, you will be lining up next to me in the Scallion Appreciation Society. Ready to give some scallions some love? Let’s make it!

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