Doesn’t this recipe sound ridiculously delicious? The first hint of fall has me reading cookbooks and scouring magazines for new concoctions to whip up in the kitchen. I found this gem in a favorite cookbook called How to Pick A Peach: The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table. I’ve never posted a recipe I haven’t tried before, but reading…
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HomeAway Travel Guide for the Top 5 Farmers Markets
Wherever our travels take us, the first place I seek is the local Farmers Market. There’s no better place to find the heartbeat of a community than in its markets. For my monthly column at the HomeAway Vacation Rental Living blog, I wrote a travel guide of my favorite 5 farmers markets. Deciding which markets to include was the hardest…
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Gulf Red Snapper En Papillote
Husband is a fisherman. He truly loves to fish. In fact he’s spent the majority of his life either fishing or wishing he was fishing. So I love it when I am able to make him dinner featuring fish that awes him. When we scored the best looking red snapper straight from the gulf coast at Farmer’s Market, I knew I…
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To Market! To Market! To Buy a Fat Pig!
So we didn’t buy a pig today at Farmer’s Market. Although there was a feral hog for sale but for some reason I wasn’t creative enough to go out on that limb this cold Saturday morning. After our luck with the Gulf Red Snapper last week, we headed straight to Roberto at San Miguel Seafood. He loaded us up…
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Guess What’s for Dinner???
We started our Saturday morning off with a very prosperous visit to the Farmer’s Market. Look at the size of this Texas Gulf Red Snapper! Less than 36 hours out of water, this large snapper is headed to one of our town’s tonier restaurants for some lucky diners to enjoy tonight. The more modest Schell Cafe will serve up a…
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