Latest Recipes
Shrimp Ceviche for Tostadas
I love Mexican street food especially fresh ceviche and tostadas.This is a simple recipe that leans cocktail rather than ceviche and is adapted from Rick Bayless of Frontera Grill in Chicago. It is a beautiful dish that because of the large size of the shrimp works really well to serve on tostadas as a refreshing appetizer. As with any ceviche-style recipe, fresh seafood is essential. For shrimp, frozen is always…
Garlicky Shrimp Takoyaki Poppers
Corn dogs are a Texas State Fair staple. But this isn’t your typical corn dog.My children will tell you that my best recipe – in their minds at least – is corn dogs. They are the typical “food-on-a-stick” variety that…
Fredericksburg Folly
Sometimes cocktails don’t know what they want to be when they grow up. Texas is blessed with citrus from the Rio Grande Valley and the markets here are always loaded with oranges, lemons, and limes. Although the traditional citrus cocktail…
Barbecue Saint Louis-style Ribs in the Method of Johnny Trigg
Weekends are made for barbecue. Getting up early, starting a fire, seeing the steam from the dew evaporate off the smoker, and finally smelling the light blue oak smoke as it comes out of the pipes. Barbecue is an etherial…