If I Only Had A Brain
After I pulled out the snow pea bush, there was a little more room in the organic garden in my backyard. I planted some tiny okra and melon seedlings, but …
Headcheese Balls
You’ve heard of boudin balls, right? So how about some headcheese balls! Chef Justin Bayse is whipping these cheeky hush puppies up over at Stella Sola, the meat-lover’s restaurant in …
Freetail Brewpub's Rye Wheat Beer
Freetail Brewing Company is an outstanding brewpub in San Antonio. I had a glass of their terrific rye wheat beer at the art gallery Box 13 Art Space over the …
Texas Oyster Season Ends Early
The Texas Department of Health closed the oyster season on Friday due to an algae bloom. The problem isn’t the potentially deadly vibrio vulnificus, but another organism called dinophysis, which …
Garden Geeks
Instead of going to the farmer’s market this weekend, why not volunteer at a community garden? You get to pitch in, pull weeds, and get your hand’s dirty–and then you …
Gil Vrazel's Czech Barbecue Shack
If you’re driving hungry on Highway 71 this weekend, consider skipping the burgers and kolaches at Hruska’s in Ellinger and visiting Gil Vrazel instead. Gil’s Bar-B-Que Shack is that little …
Twoberry Jam
Those dewberries I bought on 90A the other day got made into jam. I had about four cups of dewberries, but I also had four cups of strawberries that my …
Elysian Fields Farms: Kobe Lamb?
Grass-fed lamb sounds good. New Zealand lamb is grass fed. Loncito Cartwright’s succulent lamb from Dinero Texas is grass-fed. But the best lamb I have eaten in a long time …
90A Dewberry Stand
Oyster season ends when the dewberries are ripe, or at least that’s the way the native Karankawa tribe figured it. After eating oysters and fish all winter, they moved their …
Throwdown: Tony Vallone vs. Albert Roux
Tony Vallone insisted I try his lobster and asparagus risotto with a poached egg on top. What the hell, right? I had asked Vallone if he had been up Chez …