Recipe: Wink Restaurant’s Pure Luck Chevre Cheesecake
Wink Chevre Cheesecake, Image from Austin Magazine, courtesy Slow Food Austin Here’s a slow and delicious recipe from Wink Restaurant in Austin, Texas. They say they use Chevre (goat cheese) from Pure...
View ArticleHausBar Beef Caldo
HausBar Beef Caldo Creating substantial, satisfying food for the table doesn’t have to take all day or use strict recipes. Dorsey Barger, of HausBar Farms — a two acre urban farm in East Austin, Texas...
View ArticleRecipe: Hip Girl’s Pickled Peppers
Kate Payne’s Pickled Peppers, Photo by Cecilia Nasti If like Peter Piper the peppers you pick are already pickled on the plant, perhaps your picking is preposterously protracted, or your crazy...
View ArticleEllen Sweets’ Kick-Ass Tuna Salad
Kick-Ass Tuna Salad When you walk into Ellen Sweets’ kitchen, you know it gets used and used often. The counters overflow with small appliances and bottles and jars of herbs, spices, oils and goodness...
View ArticleRecipe: Fairy Tale Eggplant Confit from The Hightower
Fairy Tale Eggplant Confit You don’t need to believe in magic to love Fairy Tale Eggplant Confit from Chad Dolezal, Chef/Owner of The Hightower restaurant in Austin, Texas. It’s one of many seasonally...
View ArticleRecipe: Pierogies
Pierogi from Rose Petal Jam Pierogi with Cheese and Potato (“Russian”) Pierogi Makes 120 Pierogi This variant of pierogi with a traditional cheese and potato filling comes from the kresy in the east...
View ArticleTamar Adler Teaches Soup Making
Chicken Soup, image courtesy of www.freedigitalphotos.net Tamar Adler, cook and author of An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace doesn’t really use recipes when she cooks. She looks at...
View ArticleRecipe: Carla’s Preserved Tangerines
Preserved Tangerines, photo courtesy of Carla Crownover Look up the word “locavore” in the Austin, Texas version of any dictionary, and you’re bound to find a picture of Carla Crownover representing...
View ArticleRecipe: Kate’s Ginger Beer
Ginger Beer, Photography by Jo Ann Santangelo for Edible Austin I often think of of ginger as a holiday spice: it’s in cakes and cookies and savory foods. It’s warming and invigorating and some even...
View ArticleRecipe: Nerissa Oden’s Tomato Sauce Bread
Tomato Sauce Bread Grilled Cheese Slightly red in color, this bread makes a perfect partner for classic sandwiches like bacon-lettuce-tomato, toasted cheese, hamburgers and cheeseburgers, chicken and...
View ArticleRecipe: Homemade Sauerkraut
Squeezing the cabbage Sandor Katz, fermentation revivalist and author of Wild Fermentation and The Art of Fermentation, has been making sauerkraut for years and offers an updated recipe (“I’m always...
View ArticleRecipes: Thanksgiving Sides from Jack Allen’s Kitchen
Thanksgiving side dishes from Jack Allen’s Kitchen, Celebrating the tastes of Texas. If you’re looking for Thanksgiving sides that will have your dinner guests asking for seconds, you cannot go wrong...
View ArticleMaria Rodale’s Crispy Roast Chicken and Gravy
Roast Chicken image: www.freedigitalphotos.net In addition to everything else Maria Rodale does, she also writes a blog called Maria’s Farm Country Kitchen, where she shares musings from her life, as...
View ArticleShepherd’s Pie
Shepherds Pie, photo courtesy of Make Your Own Damned Cookies Blog Shepherd’s Pie or Cottage pie is a savory pie made of meat with a mashed potato crust. According to Wikipedia: The term cottage pie...
View ArticleRecipe: Cocktails for the Holidays
It’s citrus season, which is a terrific time for making seasonal cocktails. Give the Texas Sipper or the Tito’s Sage Grapefruit Splash from Jack Allen’s Kitchen a try at your next dinner party or...
View ArticleRecipe: Asparagus Spears, Pickled Radicchio
Asparagus with Pickled Radicchio Asparagus Spears, Pickled Radicchio 8 SERVINGS Ever the side dish, never the meal: Asparagus is the bridesmaid of vegetables, despite being one of the best harbingers...
View ArticleGrilled Cauliflower, Thai Chili Sauce, Sweet Potato Puree
Grilled Cauliflower A carnivore, vegetarian and vegan all walked into a dinner party. Sounds like the beginning of a joke — or disaster. But that’s a likely scenario given today’s varied diet...
View ArticleRecipe: Meyer Lemon & Goat Cheese Spread
Meyer Lemon and Goat Cheese Spread on a cracker. When the urge for a snack met with her Pure Luck Farm Chevre, her neighbor’s Meyer lemons and some of the best in local honey in the hood — Amelia...
View ArticleMaking Chicken Stock
Image courtesy of ampersandyslexia, Creative Commons Chicken stock is one of those culinary staples that everyone (who eats animal proteins) ought to learn to make–even if in the end home cooks opt to...
View ArticleRoasted Fennel and Potato Soup
Roasted Fennel and Potato Soup When you use winter vegetables in soup, you end up with something savory and delicious that warms and comforts you on those cold gray days. Renee Studebaker, writes about...
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