Chipotle Gouda Cornbread
Do you impulse buy? I do. My impulse buys are most often food related. Last week I discovered a really great local cheese shop, Scardello Artisan Cheese, in Dallas and I could not help but go in and shop. I got some terribly expensive, and very tasty, sea salt caramels, some disappointing dark chocolate, and two superb cheeses. One was a sharp cheddar made in Texas, and the other was a raw milk Gouda, also made in Texas. The...
Apple Blueberry Quick Bread
It is that time of year. Fruit is starting to come into the market that looks fresh and ripe, the weather is warmer, and my thoughts turn to baking. I was at the market a few days ago and tucked behind a box of huge strawberries were these really beautiful blueberries. They were on sale no less. Bonus! Those fat blue berries sucked me in and I took them home and contemplated what I could do with them. I thought about...
Garlic Cheese Drop Biscuits
Often when I make dinner I skip any kind of bread item. It isn’t that I don’t like bread with dinner, on the contrary I love bread with every meal, but I usually forget to make or buy bread and so we skip it. I justify it by thinking of all the calories I am missing. However, sometimes I remember the bread and when I do I usually make these biscuits. They take five minutes to prep and get into the oven, they bake in...
Bacon Cheddar Cheese Bread
When I was in England last Fall I fell in love. Not with a person, or even the land or the culture, however fantastic they all are. No, I fell in love with the bacon. In England they serve, almost exclusively, back bacon. If you have never had this kind of bacon before it is a glorious mix of lean meat, similar to Canadian Bacon, with a streaky tail, similar to our bacon in the US. It is nothing short of a miracle, and I am...
Flour Tortillas
When I was growing up in South Texas we had this neighbor who would, on Saturday afternoons, make her tortillas for the week. Believe me, I made friends with her children so I could make myself available for tortilla day. I think she enjoyed my enthusiasm and always had a few extra tortillas for me to take home. They were sublime! My family would fight over them, and no matter how many she sent home with me they were always gone...
Who Wants Pancakes??
We recently had an ice day I got to stay home with my husband and our three dogs. On such occasions, which are few and far between in my part of Texas, I like to make a big breakfast to celebrate a day of unexpected freedom. So, I made a big stack of fluffy homemade pancakes. Pancakes are a wonderful way to start the day, take ingredients you almost always have on hand, and they are dead simple to make. My recipe is adapted from...
