Sour cream chicken enchiladas recipe
When I was in college, on Saturday afternoons a large group of us would celebrate the weekend by going to lunch at the local Tex-Mex restaurant. We’d toast our break…
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Green chile cheeseburger mac
After school one day in junior high, I went over to a friend’s house to study with her for a test. After we did our homework, she said she needed…
Fried potatoes with green chiles
When I was writing my first cookbook, I wanted to include a carnitas recipe that had been on my site. It was adapted from the late cookbook author Diana Kennedy’s…
Hatch chile hummus
When I graduated from college in 1991, I took an internship at the Houston Press. One day, the art director sent me to pick up lunch and she placed a…
Hatch chile creamy salsa verde
One morning before a family wedding in Bryan, Texas, a group of us had breakfast at a Mexican restaurant downtown. Along with the tortillas, eggs, potatoes, and beans, there was…
Hatch chile lime bread
The other day, a friend asked if I was prepared for Hatch chile season. When I replied that I had plenty of time to come up with recipes for this…
Huevos rancheros, San Antonio style
There is no one way to make huevos rancheros, the Tex-Mex combination of egg, tortilla, and salsa. For instance, in the Big Bend-region town of Alpine, the huevos rancheros are…
Blueberry peach cornmeal cobbler
A few years ago, when I arrived at a friend’s house in Austin, I handed her a Fredericksburg peach I’d picked up in the Hill Country. Before I even had…
Michelada shrimp cocktail
A few years ago, I began seeing at Mexican seafood restaurants an unusual concoction: a can of beer topped with shrimp. Squiggles of hot sauce would be drenched across the…
Firecracker fried chicken
For warm-weather gatherings, some like to grill burgers, while others smoke briskets. But for as long as I can remember, my mom’s side of my family has made batches of…
