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Some weeks are celebratory with buttery steak and elaborate dishes, others are budgetary with beans and tacos. This was a budget meal but it still managed to keep a celebratory edge, I'm sure the bag of lime chips we crunched on while cooking helped! You might have all of the ingredients ...
Tabasco Peppers
At least in Texas, where the weather and women are hot and the peppers are hotter, it is easy to grow (even on a balcony) tabasco, chili pequines, and other varieties. The reward is a seasonal zesty addition that you can enjoy all year. This post will focus on the tabasco ...
Summer time calls for refreshing drinks to battle the punishing heat of Texas and one of my favorites is homemade lemonade. Recently after a morning of visiting farmers markets for vegetables to can and with temperatures in the 100's, I was trying to be creative with the old standby to have ...
Do we really have to go through the "it's cooked, it's not cooked" debate? The regular readers of this blog know the scoop on ceviche so I'll bypass all the biochemistry and get right to the good stuff. However, if you are a little shakey on exactly what's going on, shoot me an email, ...
It's that time of year, tomato season! Well for us it's past the peak season but good maters are still available and I had time to build some of our home made sauce for later in the year when decent tomatoes don't exist. I found a small farm north of town that is in the pine belt ...
Earlier this year, Mike and I tried to cut caffeine out of our diets and we succeeded for about three months. We stayed away from brewed coffee even longer by purchasing a nifty little espresso machine. Dark roasts have less caffeine so cappuchino, latte and espresso (expresso anyone?) drinkers ...
I'm not a baker. It's way too exact for me. I'm sure you've noticed my recipes call for a dash of this, a glug of that and a sprinkle of this, that and the other. I don't have the patience to chill, proof, weigh and roll. But I do love my breakfast pastries... Luckily, I find a recipe once in ...
When it comes to grilled chicken, boneless doesn't have to mean boring. It does take a little extra effort and maybe a bit of creativity but the classic dieter's entre can be darned good. This time we took advantage of Hunter and Laura's secret curry blend and a version of raita that includes a ...
Risotto is one of my favorite versitile dishes. It can be a main course or a side, and you can leave it pretty unadorned or add one of a huge number of other foods to change the taste - seafoods, spices, veggies, etc. This version is pretty simple with fresh broccoli and hard cheese. The ...
