Jalapeno beer cheese
One afternoon in Austin, a couple of friends and I went to Easy Tiger on Sixth Street and sat on its patio. We…
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…
Jalapeño-Cheddar beer bread
My mom is an avid baker, with homemade bread one of her favorite things to prepare. While she’s known for slow-rising loaves made…
Brisket chile rellenos
A friend from New Mexico asked me one day which chile pepper I preferred to use in my chiles rellenos. I replied that…
Michelada flank steak sandwiches with poblano buttermilk dressing
Back in 2011, a group of old friends reconnected at our class reunion. While we’d kept up with each other’s lives via social…
Tex-Mex beef and bean stew, aka Lakemont chili
My family has a dear friend who moved from Houston to Georgia when she and her husband retired. She’s an excellent cook and…
Borracho black-eyed peas
Every December, I begin to think of new ways to prepare my pot of black-eyed peas. For the past few years, the phrase…
Brisket enchiladas
This summer, after an afternoon of shopping at North Park in Dallas, a friend and I got into her car and realized we…
Shiner Bock ice cream
New York has changed a lot since I moved here. While the city will always have its challenges, the living has become a…
Jalapeño and beer brined pork chops
“Are you familiar with the pork chop theory?” asked food writer Virginia Willis. I admitted that I was not. “Let me explain,” she…