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Summer Fruit Recipes: Plum Empanadas (and other things)
When I was around 8 years old, I had one of the most joyful and vivid dreams of my life. We grew up in the Texas hill country, out on Lake Travis, far from civilization, but fortunately with lots of land to run around on and play. Next to our house was a scrubby field…
Read MoreWild Rice Salad
A dear, dear friend of mine recently came back to Texas for a visit. She’s been living in New Zealand for a few years now with her handsome Kiwi man and two drop-dead adorable boy-children. The reason for her visit was sad, but we were all so happy to see them. She asked her lady-friends…
Read MoreTwelve Picnic Recipes
Picnics. Isn’t the very idea of a picnic just ROMANTIC AS HELL?? You know, in your mind, the picnic happens on a grassy knoll under a 200-year-old oak tree; a perfectly pointy blue-gray mountain range on one side and a huge crystal lake on the other (don’t worry; Jason is a thousand miles away in…
Read MoreIndian Tacos
Indian Tacos Recipe Video – scroll down for printable recipe Subscribe to my YouTube channel to get notified of new videos. Indian tacos AKA Navajo tacos are like tacos but made with Indian frybread (AKA Navajo frybread) in place of the tortilla. They are drop-dead delicious. (And pretty much drop-dead unhealthy due to the frying…
Read MoreQuinoa Salad
Quinoa Salad Video (scroll down for recipe) I love quinoa salad. It’s the perfect solution to my inherent laziness – the laziness I fight so hard against but sometimes, like all better foes, it wins and I find myself sprawled out across the room, legs on the couch, face on the floor, watching “Video Chan…
Read MoreKey Lime Pie
Alright, I’mma be honest with you: I never did like key lime pie much. Back when I was a kiddo, I mean. It was too tart, too bitter, to lime-y. But (fortunately?) these past many years of drinking whiskey, chewing up entire raw ghost peppers, and siphoning gasoline (I kid. Mostly.) have left my tastebuds…
Read MoreWatermelon Salad
Not that ripe summer watermelon needs to be made into salad, but hey, maybe you’re bored with plain ol’ melon and want to try this watermelon salad. I started a post literally almost ONE YEAR ago that I never got around to finishing. Well, I finally did. Like, just a minute ago. Jeez. What a…
Read MoreShrimp Tacos
how to make shrimp tacos video – scroll down for recipe DOODS. Seriously. I’d been thinking about making shrimp tacos on the show for a while but of course, you know, I wanted to do something awesome, something spicy, something different, something … SO RAVEN. Oh god, that was a terrible joke. Anyway, I’d been…
Read MoreChick-Fil-A Copycat (Original Chick-Fil-Gay Sandwich)
If you’ve been dreaming of a way to make your very own junky fast-food-that’ll-kill-ya at HOME, today is your lucky day with this Chick-Fil-A copycat recipe! Here is Chick-Fil-A’s secret recipe* and my secret* home-frying technique, because unlike those chicken behemoths, CFA and KFC, we little people don’t have pressure fryers in our kitchens. To make…
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