Category: Main dish

Independence and chicken-fried steak

“Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken-fried steak.” —Larry McMurtry It’s been said there are three…

Tex-Mex is not Mexican food. That’s right, even though most of the restaurants you see all over Texas say that they’re Mexican, they’re…

I grew up in a frugal household. After witnessing Houston’s boom and bust in the 70’s, my parents were classic penny pinchers—they clipped…