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KARACOOKS
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  • a cast iron skillet filled with lightly browned southern style cornbread

    Southern Style Cornbread

    ByKara January 20May 16 Personal, Recipes

    This is my grandmother’s cornbread recipe, halved for smaller households. She made twice this amount in a 12-inch skillet, feeding a family of six plus whoever showed up at dinnertime (which in rural Texas was often neighbors, cousins, or people from church). This version makes enough for 4 people, or 2 people with leftovers for…

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  • Chesapeake Bay & Charleston  – Vacation

    Chesapeake Bay & Charleston – Vacation

    ByKara September 29May 16 Recipes, Travel

    I’m back from vacation and it was an amazing, relaxing, joyful, food-filled week. Settle in for a bunch of photos and a fried oyster recipe at the end (or, if you’d rather, skip the narrative and go straight to the recipe at the end of the post). This past winter, in the middle of a…

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KaraCooks is written, cooked, photographed, and gardened by one person in Johns Creek, Georgia.

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