Grandma’s peach cobbler
My grandma likes to remind me that she no longer cooks. “I don’t cook anymore,” she’ll say when we’re discussing what we’re going to eat. I always reply that it’s…
Peach cobbler, banana pudding, pecan pie, chocolate sheet cake and cool ice creams are included in this category of beloved Texan desserts.
My grandma likes to remind me that she no longer cooks. “I don’t cook anymore,” she’ll say when we’re discussing what we’re going to eat. I always reply that it’s…
When I was young, meals would often be finished with a cold and creamy frozen fruit dessert that I knew as “sherbert.” My great-grandmother called it that and even in…
A couple of years ago, a friend was having her parents over for a spring celebratory dinner. When sharing her menu with me, she sent me a photo of a…
In Mary Koock Faulk’s The Texas Cookbook, I came across a side dish that cooked rice with the juice and zest from an orange. Since both are key Texan crops,…
At the grocery store the other day, I saw a woman in a shirt that said, “Follow the joy.” A timely message, I thought. As we navigate our way through…
When reading a list of lunch menus from North Texas in the late 1950s, I came across a curious offering. After a meal of fried fish, black-eyed peas, and pickles…
In the summer of 1923, Aza-Jean Jones of the Central Texas town of Sidney shared a recipe in a local newspaper. It was for banana pudding, and hers called for…
When I lived in New York, I had a fellow homesick Texan friend who introduced me to the concept of pralines and ice cream. He would take the beloved Tex-Mex…
When I recently had a craving for something sweet, as I surveyed my kitchen I realized that I was down to my last eggs and had limited amounts of butter….
Popcorn has long been a family favorite. It was my grandfather’s go-to snack and he’d sit with a big bowl on his lap, happily eating handfuls. In fact, he loved…