Posts Tagged ‘texas cooking’
Cheese Enchilada Recipe with Red Sauce
cheese enchilada video – scroll down for recipe This was one of my favorite meals growing up. Corn tortillas filled with cheddar cheese and diced white onion, covered in red sauce, and heated just long enough for the cheese to melt, leaving the onions still crisp. My little brother hated onions when he was a…
Read MoreAdventures in El Rancho Supermercado
Pacaya Palm I got a new grocery store in my neighborhood and it’s called El Rancho Supermercado and let me tell you, it is indeed SUPER. I love anyplace where you can buy wedding cakes, tacos, and aguas frescas all in the same spot. Also, cactus juice, pulpos frescos, and a hundred kinds of dried…
Read MoreHabanero Margarita!
Yes, it’s January and it’s freeezzzing and we’re cold and shivering in oversized shoes and raggedy coats, trying to warm up with fistfuls of matches and perhaps a cold margarita doesn’t quite fit into this scenario. Perhaps. Then again, perhaps a margarita is exactly what you need in order to trick your brain into thinking…
Read MoreChicken and Dumplings
The sky is dreary as can be and I’ve been feeling extraordinarily lazy today, still recuperating from hosting my first complete Thanksgiving dinner, which means I also have a fridgerator full of Thanksgiving leftovers at my fingertips. Given those facts, what could be better than soup with dumplings and all-day movies? Nothing. Without further ado…
Read MoreBourbon Pecan Pie Recipe
[Ed note: I really need to take new pictures of this bourbon pecan pie!] Subscribe to my YouTube channel to get notified of new videos. As the only granddaughter living in the same city as my paternal grandmother, I was the one gifted with her mother’s recipe collection last year. It brings me incomparable joy…
Read MoreCreamed Spinach Recipe: Old Lady Recipes # 1
Creamed Spinach Truthfully, I can not state that I’ve ever had creamed spinach made by an actual Old Lady. But it’s one of the recipes that I lump into that category of my brain along with creamed onions, liver and onions, and gelatin salads. All of which are delicious. (Except maybe liver and onions; although…
Read MoreThe Best Chicken Fried Steak In The Galaxy
I was fortunate to grow up in the middle of nowhere, although I didn’t see it as a fortune at the time. Looking back of course, having no one to play with but my brother and nothing to do but run around The Hill as we called it was probably the coolest way to spend…
Read MoreHow To Make Cornbread
A good cornbread recipe is hard to find. Luckily, here’s this one. Slightly sweet, with a variation for jalapeno corn bread, too!
Read MoreVacation Update Numero Two: Pool Party! and Pimento Cheese
It’s time for another Summer Update. This one’s about…Pool Party! I think I’m still recovering from a long, hard weekend of cold beers, underwater photos, limoncello shots, diving into the “No Diving” end, hot sausages, pimiento cheese, some stuff I shouldn’t talk about, and one lost flip flop. Several things to celebrate this past weekend:…
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