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Food Packaging: Less is more?

By Amanda Hill Grocery shopping for me is a precise event, one that includes a very specific list ordered by the routine route I take through the store each week. I rarely venture from my list and often throw the same products I buy week-in, week-out into the cart as a whiz through the aisles. [...]

Memorial Day Feast

By Kelly Bogard On your mark…get set…GRILL! Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of the grilling season. For diehard grillers like me, this means cooking outside almost every weekend, come rain or shine. In honor of the upcoming holiday weekend, I present to you a triple threat: Apple Glazed Pork Rib Eye, Bacon-Wrapped Sweet Corn and [...]

May 27, 2011|Categories: Corn, Grilling, Pork, Texas Products, Vegetables|Tags: , , , |4 Comments

Texans make no ‘misteak’

 By Nathan Smith Texans know a good steak when we find it, and last weekend I found more than one at the 8th Annual Texas Steak Cookoff in Hico. Don’t let the event’s name fool you, though. All the major food groups were represented: chicken, pork, crawfish, duck, dove, all manner of roughage and, of course, [...]

Just don’t call it ‘hot cheese’

By Amanda Hill What’s the test of a true Texan? Ask them what they call melted, spicy cheese. I cringe at “hot cheese” and “cheese dip”—It’s queso, bless their hearts… Cinco de Mayo is this week, and like any good Texan, I’ll be celebrating with my favorite Tex-Mex dinner—chicken enchiladas, rice and more chips, salsa [...]

May 3, 2011|Categories: Texas Products|Tags: , , , |8 Comments

A world without peanuts?

By Nathan Smith Baseball season is in full swing and with it comes one of my favorite aspects of the game–roasted peanuts!  I thoroughly enjoy sitting in the Ballpark in Arlington watching the Rangers throw down on the Yankees, but what is any baseball game without this major league snack? The Lone Star State is the [...]

April 26, 2011|Categories: Specialty Crops, Texas Products|Tags: , , , |0 Comments