Category: Recipes
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The easiest way to turn a whole pumpkin into food
I know you. Because you’re like me. You pulled out all the stops for Halloween, but now there’s still a few uncarved pumpkins sitting in your front yard. They’re okay there for awhile. (Maybe people will think you’ve decorated for Thanksgiving. Riiiiiight.) Most pumpkin varieties will even endure sub-freezing temps for a few nights, so…
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One-Bowl No-Mixer Pumpkin Muffins
So it’s no secret that I’m enamored with pumpkin, and I have dozens of pumpkin recipes that get busted out in the fall. But for many folks, the idea of setting up the stand mixer to cream butter and sugar…or having multiple bowls and measuring cups to clean up afterward…it’s just too much to contemplate…
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Hatch Green Chile Peach Pie
It’s that time of year again! Grocery stores all over Texas have the unmistakable spicy-smoky aroma of roasting Hatch chiles out front, and the big chile roasters are rolling almost nonstop during open hours. It’s my favorite culinary time of year. While most recipes for Hatch chiles are savory, I decided to post a sweet…
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Savory Goat and Wild Mushroom Hand Pies
Empanadas, pasties, hand pies, meat patties, clangers, sfhias, kreatopitas…little meat pockets surrounded completely in crust and small enough to fit in the hand are popular across the earth, from Natchitoches to Nigeria, and from Jamaica to Jaipur. We recently served these rustic goat hand pies at a FRANK dinner, to nearly rabid acclaim. The flavor…
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Cinnamon Masa Pancakes (with gluten-free option)
So I make pancakes 2 or 3 times a week for breakfast, and that gets boring. Yeah…you can add chocolate chips or nuts or berries. Yeah…you can make gingered citrus syrups to pour over them. You can top them with whatever. But after a few years, they get boring. So I developed a new pancake…
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Laughably-Easy Lard (or Bacon Fat) Pastry Crust
The perfect pastry crust eludes most of us…seemingly thousands of infinitely-thin layers that are tender, but shatter in your mouth while still remaining moist and succulent. It usually involves massive amounts of butter cut into the flour at just the right temperature to just the right texture…then a chill in the fridge…then the addition of…