Adventures

The Peached Tortilla!

October 4, 2011

We’re getting the adventures started early this season! You know I have a fascination with food trucks and trailers. There’s something about the entrepreneurship behind them, the ingenuity in their design, the fact that you can DRIVE them, and the hot and sweaty working conditions that just drive me WILD. Usually the food’s pretty good, [...]

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Hilah vs. The Texas Rollergirls

July 12, 2011

Okay, okay, okay, so I know I’m supposed to be on vacation right now. But dig this. The Texas Rollergirls asked me to do ‘em a favor and I could not refuse. You’d have to be a FOOL to refuse a favor asked of you by the Rollergirls. Do I look like a fool to [...]

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Jalapeño Quiche

June 14, 2011

Hey. Guess where I got to go? Guess where I got to go and sit on a private verandah? Guess where I got to go and hijack a kitchen and steal a top-secret recipe? San Antonio, baby! The coolest of all the cool bed and breakfast owners on the planet invited me to their swank [...]

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Vegetarian Borscht

June 7, 2011

A couple weeks ago I had the extreme pleasure of visiting Johnson’s Backyard Garden and getting a tour of the farm. I got to pull up beets right out of the ground and eat them in the fields under the sun. It was glorious. I met Brenton, who started the farm with his family in [...]

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Bacon Takedown

March 16, 2010

WARNING: There is more cussing and cleavage than usual in this episode. About a month ago, my “producer” emailed me about this “Bacon Takedown.” Sure, fine, whatever, sounds good, sign me up. I’m confident — why shouldn’t I be? I can cook bacon good. I didn’t think about it much more than that. Two weeks [...]

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