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By Chile Doctor, on Saturday, May 14th, 2011, at 10:20 pm
This entry is part of a series, Restaurants»
I’m pleased to report that this sorry attempt at a restaurant has closed.
My wife and her best friend had a bad day at work, and I didn’t feel like cooking. PJ and I were cruising around looking for a good eatery to raise the coolness quotient […]
By Chile Doctor, on Sunday, May 1st, 2011, at 12:11 pm
Yes, it’s already May. (Wasn’t it just last week that we were eating leftover Christmas ham?) Spring has sprung, for most of us. Today signals the middle of the season (cross-quarter day), much as Groundhog Day marks the passing of the middle of winter. It’s traditionally a day of celebration for workers; it’s even […]
By Chile Doctor, on Saturday, October 30th, 2010, at 6:00 am
Last night was the kickoff of the 2010 edition of the Wurstfest, in one of my all-time favorite towns, New Braunfels, Texas. Even more special, this year is the 50th anniversary of the Celebration of Sausage! Plenty to do, with dancing, drinking, eating, drinking, polkas, drinking, melodramas (Harry Potwurst and Order of the Opas; […]
By Chile Doctor, on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010, at 9:00 pm
September has snuck up on us, it seems. “Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug,” John Lithgow once stated. Seems he was right, at least this once…
Of course, the start of September (or any other month) is a man-made delineation, and the seasons usually ignore such artificial markers and go […]
By Chile Doctor, on Sunday, July 25th, 2010, at 10:30 pm
The hot weather continues here in central Texas; which isn’t much news if you’re familiar with the region. Nothing swirling in the Gulf to cool us off either. Which means It’s Grilling Time again!
Wifey got home from playing with the new baby, her sister’s, for what seemed like a month. It wasn’t quite that […]
By Chile Doctor, on Thursday, December 18th, 2008, at 9:35 am
Here in Texas, we associate soups, stews and chili with cold-weather eats. Sometimes, though, we don’t invite these wonderful dishes to our Advent parties or Yule feasts.
Time to correct that…
Here are three recipes we enjoy when the weather gets wintry, and they’re not too plebian for the finest banquet:
Zuppa Etruscana
Shepherd’s Soup (Hirtensuppe)
Bierkäse Suppen
One Italian, two […]
By Chile Doctor, on Sunday, September 28th, 2008, at 6:18 am
I recently mentioned that I had eaten a nice curry dish while flying to India on Lufthansa, the German airline. Well, it seems turnabout’s fair play. Last evening I enjoyed an authentic German meal here in Hyderabad, with a hint of Oktoberfest provided, and in the company of a truly international cast of characters.
It was […]
By Chile Doctor, on Friday, September 5th, 2008, at 5:36 pm
For the first time, I found out it’s possible for me to get bored in an airport.
I know you might find that odd. Your experience is probably more typical; all airports are boring. But I love travel and flying, and I avidly watch all sorts of mechanisms that fly. It was a shock to me, […]
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