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The Bites Awaken
Read more: The Bites AwakenThere has been an awakening. I have felt it. For the last year, I have been enjoying the great music and food culture that Austin provides. It’s an amazing place for a life-long musician to live and experience. The capitol of Texas has a creative energy very similar to New…
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Chili ATX
Read more: Chili ATXFor the first time in my culinary career, I won a cooking contest! In celebration of the NFL opening weekend, my work sponsored a chili cookoff. Of the 250 or so employed at The Gatehouse Center for News Design in Austin, 10 entered. All of the entry’s weretasty and the…
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Homemade French Fries
Read more: Homemade French FriesGreat homemade french fries are not as easy as they seem to make. Getting the crispy outside and soft, pillowy inside takes some work. I think they are the greatest side dish of all-time and are totally worth going the extra mile for. In fact, I would rather overcook a…
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Country Fired Chicken with Pepper Gravy
Read more: Country Fired Chicken with Pepper GravyWhat do you do when you get home from a luau featuring a limbo contest and a surf-thrash band? Make a batch of country-fried chicken and a side of pepper gravy is what you do! That’s what I did anyway. I’ve been out and about in Austin lately feeling out…
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Cheesy Beef Rotini
Read more: Cheesy Beef RotiniPasta and cheese go together like yin and yang. Add ground beef and you get shamalama ding dang! I bought a 3-pound package of ground beef on sale that I divided for three meals. The first of which was this scatch-made, hamburger-helper-esk pot of yummy goodness. I made this for…
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Eggs over easy
Read more: Eggs over easyI can plate up some mean biscuits and gravy and other breakfast favorites, but I had never been any good at making a fried egg over easy. Broken yolks and a glob of egg is how they usually ended up — which in turn would become scrambled eggs. One of…
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Nacho Cheesy Rice
Read more: Nacho Cheesy RiceI enjoy making dishes like this for work during the week. It stores well and reheats nicely in the microwave, but most importantly, it really is a tasty dish. I can eat it like a dip with tortilla chips or garnish with chili flavored corn chips for texture. The rice…
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Friday Night, Taco Night
Read more: Friday Night, Taco NightFresh corn tortilla, steak, cilantro and onion with chipotle ranch sauce. Friday dinner is reserved for tacos. When I first moved to Austin I set aside Friday nights to hit new taco joints in search of the ultimate taco. I didn’t find the ultimate, but I did find the elements…
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