I’m a big fan of pulled pork sandwiches. Buttered and toasted hamburger buns, stacked with a big pile of lightly sweet slow smoked pork shoulder, with a batch of homemade coleslaw and a little barbecue sauce is the perfect combination. Almost magical. NOTE: You can also make these with shredded chicken, shredded beef, or even carnitas. The challenge […]
How to Render Beef Tallow
As with pork lard, enormous amounts of beef fat that could otherwise be rendered into tallow gets dumped in the trash every year. People do this for varying reasons. Some don’t understand how easy it is to render into tallow, and some believe that its more unhealthy than it actually is. I won’t get into […]
Easy Texas-Style Chili con Carne
Texas-style chili con carne can be as complex or as simple as you’d like to make it. I’ve already given you the complex version with nineteen ingredients and nine steps, so I figured I’d give you something you could throw together without so much effort. This version has only fifteen ingredients and four steps, but more importantly, […]
Tex-Mex Migas
Tex-Mex style migas are an early morning Austin tradition. Chances are, if you’ve visited the city and partaken in some of their food truck fare early in the morning, you’ve had the Tex-Mex mutation of migas that Austinites, and many across Texas love so much. You’ve almost certainly had them if you’ve found yourself waking […]
Homemade Chili Powder
You may think making homemade chili powder is a bit absurd or excessive, but trust me on this, it’s not. It’s absolutely worth the extra effort. Chili peppers don’t stay fresh for as long as you might expect, and once ground, their shelf life drops by about one-half. The problem with store-bought chili powder is […]
Arroz Verde (Green Rice)
You wouldn’t know it from visiting most Mexican restaurants here in Texas, but not all Mexican rice is red. Arroz Verde (or green rice) is another typical rice recipe found in Mexico, and as far as I’m concerned, it’s the best way to eat it. The brighter flavors of the fresh chiles and spinach can […]
Creamy Chicken and Dumplings
Chicken and dumplings is a meal of humble origins in the South, with the dumplings being added to chicken soup to cheaply make the meal more filling and add some needed carbs to the diets of laborers. Adding cream to it isn’t so traditional, but it makes it taste even better. If you’d like a […]
Smothered Pork Chops
Smothered pork chops are a staple of comfort food throughout the South. Almost every home cook in the South, no matter if they’re in South Carolina, Mississippi, or East Texas, will have a recipe for this low-cost, rib-sticking recipe. The Key To Tasty Onion Gravy Although each ingredient you add to the gravy in this […]
Tex-Mex Carne Guisada
Carne Guisada translates to “stewed meat” in English. That’s really all this recipe is. Beef stew with a few potatoes. What makes it different from most American-style beef stews is the addition of some fresh and dried chile peppers. Carne guisada was always a favorite of mine, but I really started eating a lot of […]
Cast-Iron Dutch Oven Biscuits
Cooking biscuits outdoors in a cast iron dutch oven may seem like a challenge, but it’s actually fairly easy. If you’re doing it in your backyard, it’s even easier, since you can put the biscuit dough together in your kitchen and haul the cut biscuits outside to cook. If you want to make them outside, […]
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