Texas Table Top—Celebrating the foods, places and people of the Lone Star State.

Yearly Archives: 2014

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Creamed Spinach

By Kelly Bogard Do you have plans for a Valentine's dinner? Did you make the reservations? What? You got busy and forgot? No way! It's that time again. Time to stress out over how to plan a memorable moment on Cupid's special day. I think I've told you this before, but we don't usually go [...]

Meet a Texas spinach farmer: Ed Ritchie

By Julie Vrazel Spinach—the vegetable made popular by the fast-talking, squinty-eyed Popeye the Sailor Man—is packed with nutrients and grown right here in the Winter Garden area of Southwest Texas. This leafy, green crop is spread over 3,500 acres and grown by 14 farmers in this region of the Lone Star State. Ed Ritchie, a [...]

Back to Basics: Pie Crust

By Kelly Bogard Okay, I will admit it. Last week, the pie crust I made for the Chocolate Pie was the first homemade pie crust I have made by myself. With the convenience of prepackaged crusts, I had convinced myself that it was too hard. What if the butter wasn't cold enough? What if it [...]

February 7, 2014|Categories: Back to Basics, Desserts, Featured, Recipes|Tags: , , , , |1 Comment

No food fights here

By Jessica Domel For two days, I waited for the battle royale to begin in my refrigerator, but alas, every time I opened the door I found a plain looking head of organic cabbage hanging out on the bottom shelf with my traditionally-grown carrots and cilantro. After all that’s been posted on Facebook lately about [...]

February 4, 2014|Categories: Texas Agriculture|Tags: , , , |1 Comment

Chocolate Pie

By Kelly Bogard You might not know this, but sometimes I struggle to come up with ideas or recipes for the blog. Sometimes it is recipe block and sometimes I just can't find enough time to sit down and think it out. Luckily, I have a huge building full of people from which to bounce [...]