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World Championship Chili Cookoff in West Virginia? Say It Ain’t So, Joe!

I was cruising that World Wide Web thingie, looking for important regional cooking events to give everybody a heads-up about, when I saw some disturbing news. The International Chili Society will be holding their World Championship Chili Cookoff in Charleston, West Virginia tihs year! Yeah; you read that right. How could they move it all [...] Read more »

Happy Eightieth Birthday, Dad

It’s been another hectic week, with so much going on this summer. Travel, research, and good eats, all taking place during one of the hottest summers we’ve had in decades. With so many distractions, it might be excusable to forget a few important things.
One that didn’t slip by, though, is my dad’s birthday. He would [...] Read more »

One Last Plate of Tex-Mex, Then We Go

The plane leaves in less that 48 hours for Ireland, and I’m ready to go. Well, okay, I’m not quite ready. Other than finishing a report or two, traveling home, then shopping, packing and stuff like that, though, I’m ready.
Oh, and I really, really need a Tex-Mex fix. Bad. I mean a good one. So [...] Read more »

Pulled Pork Burritos With Peach and Banana Relish

Peaches are in season in the Texas Hill Country, and they’re quite good this year. (The crop’s a little light, a late freeze zinged quite a few orchards.) If you buy them by the bushel, you need recipes that will take some of that juicy goodness and pair it up with other tasty ingredients. Like [...] Read more »

The Grand Christmas Feast at the Ranch

This post is coming up Very Late. We stayed up until the wee hours of the morning, opening gifts and playing games, watching movies and more. It was so late when we got started with the Clan’s traditional Stocking Orgy Presents Opening that breakfast had to be eaten in shifts, with some revelers asleep before [...] Read more »

Tis the Season: Getting Buffaloed for Christmas

They ranged from Canada to Texas and beyond, not so many years ago. Then they were nearly hunted to extinction. Now they’re farmed like cattle, but they are hardly domesticated. They’re the American Bison, commonly (mis)identified as buffalo.
They also taste good!
So learn something the Native Americans knew for centuries before our ancestors got here:

Bison Roast [...] Read more »

Tis the Season: Yuletide Beans

Beans are one of Nature’s great foods. They deliver wonderful nutrition, dry and store nicely, and are versatile ingredients in so many dishes.
Here in Texas, we like our pintos, as well as black beans, red beans, butter beans, navy beans and more. They’re comfort food, especially once the weather turns a mite nippy out.
While we’re [...] Read more »

Tis the Season: South of the Border Wontons and Pane Salsiccia

The Great Party Recipe Disc-Dump Sharing Continues!
The elves in the Chile Underground Test Kitchens have been extra-busy while you slept, and they quit playing dominoes long enough to find worked their tiny fingers to the bone just to check these recipes before sharing them with you! They tried them over and over too; dominoes takes [...] Read more »