1/2 cup brown rice vinegar scant 1/3 cup fine-grain natural cane sugar or brown sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes or 1/2 fresh red chile, minced 1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil Read on!
Shaved Summer Squash Salad with Basil and Feta
This week, we’re not turning on the oven and instead celebrating ways to make your meals more Texas-heat-friendly. At this point in the season, we’re no strangers to cooking and eating summer squash. While there are lots of ways to prepare Read on!
Buckwheat Noodles with Green Beans & Toasted Sesame-Lime Vinaigrette
Ingredients: 1 package buckwheat soba noodles, cooked to al dente, drained and rinsed 1/2 pound green beans, trimmed, cut into 1″ lengths and blanched 1 cucumber, peeled, seeded and cut into 1/2″ pieces 1 c. cherry tomatopes, cut in half Read on!
Braised Zucchini with Sun Gold Cherry Tomatoes & Basil
Whose world is this? Every day, we leave the house, wondering if we’re still dreaming. Mornings are cool and afternoons decidedly bearable in the shade. In the evenings, we wander the neighborhood as shadows lengthen and fireflies come out. Every Read on!
Grilled Radicchio with Balsamic & Fresh Ricotta
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar 5 garlic cloves, smashed 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, divided, plus additional for drizzling 1 pound radicchio (preferably Treviso), quartered lengthwise, or regular radicchio, cut into 2-inch wedges Read on!
Grilled Lamb Burgers with Cucumber Tzaziki
By Elizabeth Winslow “Never trust a skinny cook.” It only makes sense. Someone who loves food, lives for it, thinks and dreams about it constantly, is not likely to be wafer-thin. At times I find myself a little too trustworthy, Read on!
My Mother-in-Law’s Heavenly Rolls
1 c warm water 1 tsp sugar 2 pkg yeast (not Rapid Rise) 1 c. boiling water 1 c. shortening 1 1/2 tsp. salt 2/3 c. sugar 2 eggs 6 c. flour + 1 c. flour for rolling dough 1 Read on!
Saag Paneer with Fresh Spinach
Every year for Easter, my mother-in-law makes buttery, soft, pillowy yeast rolls in a cross-shaped pan. These rolls are possibly the reason I married her son. Well, the rolls were a big part of it, but I was easily seduced by Read on!
East Austin Urban Farm Tour
What is now the lively, noisy, vibrant, densely developed neighborhood of East Austin sits on the rich, dark alluvial soil of the Blackland Prairie, once part of the True or Tall Grass Prairie – habitat to the indigenous Comanches, and Read on!