Brisket jam
A couple of years ago, I started seeing mentions about a new condiment: brisket jam. While there wasn’t too much information available about…
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Many cuisines around the world feature a ham and cheese sandwich. For instance, in France, there is a ham and cheese baguette. In…
Currant jelly and mustard glazed ham
The glazes found on the hams I ate growing up usually involved brown sugar and orange juice. Though my family often ate pepper-coated…
Texas sweet onion pudding
There are several harbingers of a Texas spring, such as the bluebonnets in bloom, the return of baseball, the lighter, warmer days, and…
Black bean enfrijoladas
One of my favorite pastimes is reading restaurant menus. I first started doing this when I lived in New York and wanted to…
Beer biscuits
A few years ago, I went on an epic breakfast crawl across Dallas. I began at a Vietnamese bakery where I sampled a…
Texas grapefruit meringue pie
One of my newest recipe testers is my 11-year-old nephew Austin. Over the Thanksgiving holiday, he used the family’s pecan pie recipe and…
Kimchi mac and cheese
A few years ago, I learned about kimchi grilled cheese sandwiches from the Washington Post food editor Joe Yonan. He’d included a recipe…
Pastalaya
The first time I heard the term pastalaya, I wasn’t quite sure what it entailed. Was it an island in the Mediterranean? An…
Red beans and boudin
A few years ago, some folks were discussing recipes they liked to prepare when it was cool outside. There were the usual mentions…
