These pumpkin cookies melt in your mouth
As much as I adore summer, I spend all year looking forward to celebrating fall. Gorgeous sunsets, blustery cool fronts and holiday meals. What’s not to like? [Read more…]
Coffee-rubbed flank steak
Photo by Alicia Cahill
Pairs well with popular South American condiment
In Argentina, chimichurri can seem as ubiquitous as the bottles of hot sauce cluttering tables here in Texas. [Read more…]
Tex-Mex Paella
Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Gulf Coast ingredients put a spin on classic Spanish meal
There probably are as many variations of paella as there are families in Spain. [Read more…]
Grilled Watermelon Salad
Photo by Alicia Cahill
Turn up the heat on summer’s favorite treat
It’s hard to trump the taste of a ripe watermelon on a summer day. Crisp and sweet, watermelon is a hallmark of Southeast Texas summers. With summer days waning, it’s now or never. [Read more…]
Easier than pie
This classic French dessert is exquisitely simple
This time of year, trips to the market reveal piles of gleaming garnet stone fruits, perfect and ripe. [Read more…]
Sweet summer
Photo by Alicia Cahill
Capture the taste of the season with this corn and crab soup
Soon enough, local stores and markets will explode with piles of golden tassels and green husks. Peel back this jacket to reveal cobs studded with crisp kernels made plump and rich by the sun. [Read more…]
Pasta impostor?
Twirl your fork through a plate of shrimp scampi zoodles
I love pasta like I love my dog Junebug — unequivocally, deeply and without judgment. [Read more…]
It’s all gravy
Photo by Alicia Cahill
Carry on a Southern tradition with this stick-to-your-ribs dish
Eat biscuits from a tube? Good gravy! That’s unthinkable. [Read more…]
The deviled made her do it
Photo by Alicia Cahill
This appetizer is a staple of Southern gatherings and one foodie’s weakness
It’s all Southern manners and civility until the tray of deviled eggs arrives. Then it’s every woman for herself. I should know, I’m the most dangerous kind of person at a party. [Read more…]
Sweet memories
Photo by Alicia Cahill
Making doughnuts is less messy and more fun than you think
My first memory of doughnuts was of Winchell’s, a popular West Coast chain near my childhood home. [Read more…]