CioppinoA few years back I took a business trip to San Francisco, while there I had some of the best seafood I've had in years and have since spent time trying to replicate some of those vittles. While the cioppino I ate there was amazing I certainly can't[...] |
Experiments in Home CuringAs I've recently professed my obsession with charcuterie it shouldn't be surprising to see meat curing, smoking, etc. appearing on my blog, I give you the preface so that you aren't surprised as more and more of these items start appearing. Last[...] |
Putting Christmas Gifts to Good UseOf late I've taken a serious interest in charcuterie, it started simply enough, with a Christmas gift, a book called Flying Sausages, and is starting to spiral into full blown obsession (I have 2lbs of pork belly in the freezer I'm planning to[...] |
Bucking trends...I have never been big on following the trends, I've never cared too much to go buy the latest clothes (although I don't think I'm unfashionable, guess that's easy to say since I'm the one judging myself) and truth is once I find something I love (be[...] |
Meatball MondayI know, I know, it's supposed to be Meatless Monday, but come on meatballs sound good, don't they? Both recipes I want to share today are meatball-centric, but contrary to the heavy meatballs you might be envisioning, I'm going to share some healthy,[...] |
Spring Cleaning, Blogging Catch-Up & New Belgium BeerThe last four weeks have been filled with home improvement projects (who knew you could spend that much money at Home Depot??), gardening and unfortunately widsom teeth pulling! I've been a little lax on my blogging since March but here's the[...] |
When a house becomes a home...For a little over a year and a half now I have been living in a great house in a suburb of Austin, my little yellow dog and I have rented it and have grown to love it, so at the end of last year when the management company asked if I'd be interested[...] |
Happy Independance Day Texas!As if it were any secret, I'm a big fan of my state, actually I'm really proud of my family too (see the two are pretty well intertwined). Texas is the only state in the union to have been its own country, we even had embassies outside the US![...] |
Texas Beef meets Aussie PiesOf late I have been inspired by things around me, either restaurants in the area, food trucks who provide amazing goodies to us office dwellers at lunch or grocery stores/farmers markets. I am fortunate to be surrounded by amazing food and[...] |
Central Texas Snow DaySnow is a rarity around here, by rarity I mean I can count the number of times in my life that it's happened on one hand! With that in mind, I get as giddy as a little kid to hear we have a possibility of snow and even more excited when it truly[...] |