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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 »

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 »

Review: Mesa Rosa Mexican Restaurant

When my wife and I moved back to the Republic after completing our “missionary work” (four years in purgatory proselytizing to the heathens in the wilderness of Michigan, up near Santa’s house somewhere), we lived for a short while way out northwest of the city. We were actually in Williamson County, and a long drive [...] Read more »

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 »

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 »