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Barbecue – there’s an app for that

By Nathan Smith It’s June in Texas, and that means barbecue. Who am I kidding? Barbecue is a year-round staple in the Lone Star State, so imagine my excitement to learn of Texas Monthly’s latest iPhone application…the Texas BBQ Finder. How many times have you taken a trip in search of good barbecue, only to [...]

June 21, 2011|Categories: Featured, Tips & Tools|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

Kids in the Kitchen

By Matt Felder Table Top would like to thank Texas Farm Bureau's Matt Felder for this guest post about the Junior League's Kids in the Kitchen program. Matt is field editor for TFB's publications. Nationally, about one in seven children are obese, and that statistic increases to nearly one in three children in Texas. But that’s something the Junior League of [...]

June 14, 2011|Categories: Healthy Kids|Tags: , , , |1 Comment

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