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Yearly Archives: 2015

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Panel has ‘beef’ with eating meat

By Jessica Domel Imagine a world with very little beef, chicken, pork and turkey. A world where your main options are fruits, vegetables and grains. Butter, ice cream, cheese and milk are to be used sparingly. With the abundance of choices at our local grocery stores and farmers’ markets, it’s almost hard to imagine. But [...]

Grocery Price Watch: Food prices drop slightly

By Julie Tomascik Up, up and up. We’ve seen food prices rise over the last couple of years. But not for the beginning of 2015. Texas Farm Bureau’s Grocery Price Watch survey found food prices for the first quarter of 2015 register a slight decline of nearly three percent, ringing in at $49.04 for a basket [...]

Pink Fluff

By Kelly Bogard It's funny how something as simple as food can bring back so many memories. Turkey makes most people think of Thanksgiving. Peach Cobbler means summer is here. Others, like this week’s recipe, may not have as wide of a following. But it definitely brings back memories of Easter and my grandparents. You're probably thinking [...]

March Madness: Is our farming bracket busted?

By Jessica Domel March Madness. It’s not just basketball this year. For agriculture in South and Central Texas, March Madness comes down to wet fields and delayed planting. I know my family’s farming bracket has already been broken. We planned for a certain amount of corn this spring and penciled it into our March Madness [...]

Skillet Chicken Quesadillas

By Kelly Bogard Being a food blogger is a pretty cool gig. I get to work and do something I love—cooking! Fun, tasty recipes dominate my kitchen. But I’m frequently asked questions. “How do you make it? “How does it taste?” Do you really think I’d share a recipe that doesn’t taste good? Of course [...]