Tag: red chiles | Homesick Texan

Chicken-fried steak with red chile gravy

One summer day, while driving along the Rio Grande from Laredo to McAllen I began to get hungry. As I passed through the…

The other day someone asked me what I always keep in my refrigerator. After going through the usual list of things such as…

One recent Sunday after a hearty beef stew dinner, my family sat in my grandma’s living room taking the New York Times dialect…

For the Super Bowl, my friends and I usually serve food that represents the teams. And with Boston and New York playing this…

These days, when you say you’re serving wings, most people assume it’s the spicy variety that were made popular in the far upstate…

For some reason, I have it in my head that strawberries should arrive here in New York by early May. But these past…

For Lent, I gave up beef. Now, I wouldn’t say that I necessarily have a beef-eating problem, but there was a period right…

For me, driving through Texas is therapeutic. Seeing the big sky, the wide-open spaces, the cattle, the trees, and the cacti out my…

My dad’s family always gets together the Saturday after Thanksgiving. I think this is smart as there’s nothing more stressful then either having…

When my grandparents were in graduate school at the University of Kentucky, they were—of course—homesick Texans. But they soon figured out that they…