These gorgeous pastries were gifted to me by a photographer friend after he shot the wedding of the company’s owners. The crunchy, heart-shaped cinnamon sugar cookies are shipped to Austin from Mexico and would make a lovely holiday or hostess gift.
Category: Outside the Kitchen
An impromptu road trip to East Texas took me to The Shed Cafe in Edom, population 375. Follow along with my meal of biscuits and gravy, chicken fried steak, and most importantly, three kinds of pie.
6:00 a.m. at Boggy Creek Farm is a magical time. I was at the east Austin farm last Thursday at that early hour and the field in front of the house was as still as a picture. The usually-bustling farm
A few weeks ago I shared some snack recipes as part of the Austin Food Blogger Alliance Hunger Awareness Blog Project benefiting the Capital Area Food Bank (CAFB). I promised a three-part series in that first post, and I didn’t deliver. This is
This past week Austin hosted the 2011 conference of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP), a gathering of some of the most important food communicators in America. There were chefs, cookbook authors, journalists, bloggers and corporate food folks in