Featuring interesting tidbits on Texas food, restaurants and fiber.
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 [...]
4 green Texas foods for St. Patrick’s Day
By Julie Tomascik Texans celebrate in big ways, and St. Patrick’s Day is no exception. Green food. Green drinks. Green clothes. Even the fields are turning green. But the celebrations wouldn’t be right without a Texas twist. Like eating these four green foods grown in the Lone Star State by hardworking Texas farmers. Green tomatoes. You [...]
