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Karen Depp

Karen Depp began cooking in the 4th grade, making applesauce with her best friend in the backyard, using a candle, tart tin, and paring knife. She advanced to cakes and cookies by the 6th grade and continued to hone her skills as she grew up. She likes to say that the highlight of her culinary career was being admitted to the hallowed halls of LC Testerville. Alas, her first recipe attempt wasn’t so hallowed and resulted in her setting her oven on fire. (We have it on good authority the conflagration had nothing to do with us; her oven was limping along on its last BTU.) Depp modestly claims that her success in the realm of cooking comes from her relationship to good cooks—her mother, two chef brothers-in-law, and a Culinary Institute of America-trained nephew who’s worked with Emeril Lagasse.

Karen Depp
Pumpkin pie spice in a glass jar on a wooden cutting board, surrounded by measuring spoons full of various spices.

Pumpkin Pie Spice

5 mins

Cajun chicken and sausage gumbo with a serving of rice, in a white bowl with a spoon.

Cajun Chicken and Sausage Gumbo

2 hrs 45 mins

Roast chicken with lemon slices under the skin in a oval metal pan

Roast Chicken with Lemon

1 d 2 hrs 20 mins

A cutting board with five sweet potato biscuits on it and a square plate square with a split biscuits spread with butter and honey.

Sweet Potato Biscuits

45 mins

Three stacked white bowls and the top one filled with greens and grains soup, and finished with Parmesan.

Greens and Grains Soup

1 hr

A stack of flour tortillas with bacon fat on a cast-iron skillet.

Flour Tortillas with Bacon Fat

1 hr 30 mins

White plate with a maple pork chops, carrots, and beets with feta cheese

Maple Pork Chops

30 mins

Four baked eggs sprinkled with chopped bacon.

Baked Eggs

25 mins

Several Frito pies made in open bags of Fritos.

Frito Pie

5 mins

Six slices of white bread with mustard squiggles on each slice.

Homemade Yellow Mustard

1 hr 45 mins

A cardboard bowl filled with easy potato salad an a plastic fork resting on top.

Easy Potato Salad

2 hrs 20 mins

A blue enamel roast pan with a maple roast chicken, trussed and stuffed with lemon halves, sitting on a bed of fingerling potatoes. Glasses of red wine and salt and pepper in the background.

Maple Roast Chicken

1 hr 40 mins

Two jars of lemon vinaigrette, two lemon halves, and a wire whisk.

Lemon Vinaigrette

5 mins

Homemade Muesli

Homemade Muesli

10 mins

A rimmed baking sheet with rows of Southern buttermilk biscuits.

Southern Buttermilk Biscuits

45 mins

A bowl of horseradish cream on a wooden board with a spoon resting inside and a bunch of chives lying beside the bowl.

Horseradish Cream

5 mins

Korean chicken wings piled around a white container of dipping sauce.

Korean Chicken Wings

1 hr

A tall glass mug filled with Irish coffee with whipped cream on top and a tumbler or whiskey in the background.

Irish Coffee

10 mins

A white plate of pan-fried bananas with brandy that have been drizzle with coconut cream with a fork resting on either side.

Pan-Fried Bananas with Brandy

25 mins

Cosmopolitan shot in a small glass.

Cosmo Shot

5 mins

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