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Archive for Texas Food
Restaurant Review: Casa Garcia’s Tex-Mex Restaurant
I’m a big fan (don’t take that too literally!) of Tex-Mex cuisine. Maybe “cuisine” is too snooty a word for these tasty, hearty dishes. It’s the cooking of working men and women, with few pretenses and no plan to grow up into a “cuisine.”
Besides, how many “cuisines” can you eat every day, all day long? [...] Read more »
Halloween Hangover Got You Down? You Need Chili!
Kids and parents alike can get a Halloween hangover from all the sugar and poor nutrition. I think the worst day is November 2, actually. The night of Halloween you’re busy with the activities and the TOTers, you don’t eat well, you snarf down way too much sucrose and fructose and food colorings, but you’re [...] Read more »
Tailgatin’ on a Tuesday
Finally the weather’s cold enough to think about football. If you’re a true football fan, you’re required you know how to prepare tailgating fare for you and all the lazy camp followers friends and family who come with you to the game to drink your beer and eat you out of house and home cheer [...] Read more »
Saturday Salmagundi for Breakfast
Breakfast is one of my seven favorite meals of the day (to misquote a certain bear). I recently completed a thorough research project on breakfast blogs (I actually used Google twice), and here are some of the neat items I found:
Better Homes and Gardens has published a Tex-Mex Breakfast Pizza
If you like to combine travel [...] Read more »
Cool Weather Zest: Green Chile Stew
Cool weather’s on its way, even to central Texas! Time to drag out the recipes for hearty soups, stews and chilis. Life’s too short for wimpy cold-weather fare!
Here’s a dish that mimics a chile verde a bit, but isn’t quite as time-intensive to make:
Green Chile Stew
This stew is plenty green, and if you use hot [...] Read more »
Hatch Chiles Are in Season!
This week and next, here in Austin and at other locations around the Lone Star State, our Central Market stores will be holding their annual salute to that long, green (and sometimes red) delicacy, the Hatch chile: The Hatch Chile Festival.
The Texas version of this celebration is quite an extravaganza. From demonstrations of recipes to [...] Read more »
I’m Not Here Right Now; But If I Were, I’d be Eating…
I just went back to school.
Not to get a degree; I got more of those than I need. And my teaching is over (at least for now).
This time, it was to launch daughterperson on her college career.
It only seems like yesterday she was eating her birthday cake. Her first birthday, I mean. And now she’s [...] Read more »
Cool River Café and Southwestern Poblano Soup
My spouse has a birthday coming soon, and although she claims she’s given up on getting older, she still likes to celebrate. Cyndi Lauper’s got nothing on her! So she gathered up the Clan and we headed to Cool River Café for lunch.
Set on the northwest side of Austin, this massive eatery is worth a [...] Read more »
