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Ultimate BLT Salad

By Kelly Bogard I wouldn’t touch a salad when I was a kid. I thought it was yucky. No amount of ranch dressing or cheese would make me want to eat it. Nowadays, I can’t seem to get enough of it. Maybe my body is trying to play catch-up to years of neglect. Or maybe [...]

BBQ Chicken Pizza Pie

By Kelly Bogard Happy pie day. Boy, are you in for a treat. Oh wait, I think I have something wrong here. It’s Pi, not pie. You know, 3.141592653. Every year since 1988, people have celebrated Pi with pie. We will celebrate with pie. There are all kinds of pies, though. Here in Texas, we [...]

A culture of food fear

By Jessica Domel Do you fear your food? Lately, it seems as though every time I log onto Facebook or Twitter, there’s a new post from one of my friends detailing some new food issue that he/she wants the world to know about. While I appreciate my friends' and acquaintances’ desire to keep us all [...]

March 11, 2014|Categories: Healthy Eating, Texas Agriculture|Tags: , |0 Comments

Busting beef nutrition myths

By Julie Vrazel Eating preferences—we all have them. Some choose to be vegetarians, while others pursue the vegan route. Then, there are folks—myself included—who are omnivores. Growing up on my family’s cow-calf operation in Central Texas, there was only one way to eat—a balanced meal that included meat and vegetables. But I was an open-minded [...]

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 [...]