Grocery Price Watch: Food prices keep rising
By Julie Vrazel Budget, budget, budget. It’s an all-too familiar word in my house with a wedding less than two months away and winter feed bills for the cows just around the corner. But a large part of my usual monthly expenses isn’t directly related to our wedding or cattle. It’s my weekly trips to [...]
Cheesy Bacon Hasselback Potatoes
By Kelly Bogard We sure enjoyed the cool weather last weekend here in Central Texas. It was a bit chilly first thing on Saturday morning, but warmed up to a very pleasant temperature just in time for Saturday evening festivities. It's nights like this that we love to entertain. This weekend will be no different [...]
Got food choices?
By Julie Vrazel Walk into a grocery store and you’ll find yourself wandering through the maze of food choices. Bright, bold labels help guide you to your selection—natural, GMO-free, local, organic, gluten-free. The possibilities are endless. But what do you really know about those buzzwords and the food you’re buying? Well, the farmers and ranchers [...]
Ham & Cheese Quiche
By Kelly Bogard This is the time of year when I really begin to realize how many hats I wear on a daily basis. I have many different Farm Bureau hats. Then there's my mom hat, wife hat and community volunteer hat. It's crazy. The one hat that always brings me back to center is cooking. It's [...]
Who do you trust for food information?
By Julie Vrazel “I read it on the Internet, so it must be true.” Right? Well, not exactly. Misinformation and agenda-driven science is abundant online. But accurate, well-researched information is also available at your fingertips. So, how do you know who to believe? For me, it’s difficult to build trust in a group who blatantly [...]
Pico de Gallo
By Kelly Bogard Once again, I was blessed by the bounty of a Texas farmer. I came to work a while back and found a beautiful box of vine-ripened tomatoes from the Rio Grande Valley on my desk. They were a brilliant, shiny red and perfectly plump. Texas really did win the vegetable jackpot this [...]
