Here’s the answer to the question Do beets grow in South Texas? These are some of the second harvest of a couple rows we planted in January. Next year, more rows starting in November. A few weeks ago we roasted some individually wrapped in aluminum foil and drizzled with olive oil, then served with crumbled [...]
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While I certainly prefer that the animals I eat be raised on pasture instead of crammed into factory farms and inoculated with chemicals, the current realities of economics and availability dictate that I still buy most of the family’s meat in the grocery stores. That meat seems to have become noticeably more expensive, but yesterday [...]
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My young kids are at that age where, if you tell them the hunk of meat you are about to cook is a “Boston butt,” it’s the most hilarious news they have ever heard uttered. Even when you tell them it is not a pig butt. The Boston butt is a pig shoulder. It is [...]
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The start of the fig harvest, the tail end of the tomato harvest and grocery stores full of plentiful cheap chicken can make weekend menu decisions easy. Just make sure to cook that chicken thoroughly, especially if, like us, you aren’t lucky enough to live within reasonable driving distance of a free-range poultry farmer. And [...]
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A few bags of “fresh” Sicilian tomato sauce still sit waiting in the freezer, packed from last year’s garden largess, and I’d already frozen a batch of ragu sauce, perhaps blasphemed due to the four or five smoked pork ribs thrown in the pot just to see what. Yet the maters kept marching through the [...]
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If my writing ever becomes so bad that they bust me and rule it a capital offense, I intend to request tomato pie for my last meal. I’d never tried or baked such a pie before yesterday but, having a brief tomato largess, I thought it was time to try. It turns out there are [...]
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A couple tomatoes on the windowsill were, I noticed this morning, headed toward over-ripeness so, remembering the presence of a lone mango in the fridge, I turned the lot into mango salsa. Because it is a sin to allow garden tomatoes to go bad. Usually I use a few fresh hot chiles in salsa, but [...]
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