Texas Eats: The Menger’s Mango Ice Cream
Writing Texas Eats was a lot of fun. I learned a lot about Texas food history in the 1800s, a time that some food historians think was the heyday of …
DIY Tabasco, Sriracha and Texas Pete: Making Homemade Pepper Sauces
What do you think about xanthum gum? After months of experiments with fermentation and pepper processing, I am making Louisiana and Sriracha style pepper sauces at home that taste better …
Creamer Peas with Wild Boar Country Ham
My friend Dr. Ray Hambuchen of Conway Arkansas has an impressive sausage making and dry curing operation in his suburban garage. Every year around this time he clears his freezers …
TXChefs4: Haute Heritage: Tim Byres
It’s hard to figure out where Texas cooking is headed right now. There are a lot of different trends going on and they have little to do with each other. …
Jam Time, Ya’ll
On my way back from Foodways Texas BBQ Summer Camp, I bought a box of sweet and juicy two inch-size Hill Country freestone peaches for $33 at DiIorio’s farmstand in …
The Hot Sauce Cookbook Recipe Contest
The Recipe Club Invites You to Enter The Hot Sauce Recipe Contest! My latest book project is called “The Hot Sauce Cookbook.” It will include the recipe for that homemade …
Peach Patrol!
Every year, we wait patiently for the freestone peaches to be perfectly ripe so we can begin making preserves, brandied peaches, and peach pies. Freestone peaches are the best to …
TexChefs2: Rootsy Radical: Matt McCallister
It’s hard to figure out where Texas cooking is headed right now. There are a lot of different trends going on and they have little to do with each other. …
Hot Sauce at Home: Fermented Pepper Sauce, Part 1
My first foray into making Lousiana pepper sauce started with a search for red chiles. Tabasco chiles were introduced to Louisiana in the 1800s and became the favorite chile for …
$10,000 for Your Spaghetti Story
Skinner Pasta will be donating a couple of hundred pounds of spaghetti to the Sacred Heart Society Spaghetti lunch this week. I’ll be there on Thursday March 8 signing my …