How to make a rainbow-colored grilled cheese sandwich (glitter optional)
In today’s food section, I explained the recent phenomenon of “unicorn food,” a colorful, glittery subset of the highly visual “internet food” movement. Rainbows, sprinkles, glitter and stars are...
View ArticleMeet the color-loving Austinite who has turned her love of sprinkles into a...
Thanks, in part, to the trend of unicorn food and other “internet foods,” Austin has its own sprinkle maker. This unicorn sprinkle mix is one of many that Austinite Rosie Pierce sells on her website,...
View ArticleWhat’s for Dinner Tonight: Five-spice duck (or chicken or pork) with wild...
Have your sheet pans and casserole dishes collected dust yet? It’s been a long, hot summer, but I can feel my palate and my cooking instincts starting to make that transition to fall, especially with...
View ArticleAustin Food Blogger Alliance to host noodle cook-off on Sept. 23
The Austin Food Blogger Alliance is hosting a cook-off event again this year, but with a new theme: Noodles. Sesame-tonnato noodles. Contributed by Deb Lindsey for The Washington Post. After several...
View ArticleUse up this week’s leftovers in a spaghetti pie with ricotta, veggies
Now that it’s finally not too hot to turn on the oven, here’s a quick dinnertime pie you can make with just a few ingredients. It’s a great way to use up leftover spaghetti, but it’s also a way to...
View ArticleThis month’s St. Elias Mediterranean food and music festival started 70 years...
It’s the 86th year for Medfest, the St. Elias Mediterranean Festival that takes place every year at the St. Elias Orthodox Church downtown. Arabic folk band Layalina performs at the 82nd annual St....
View ArticleEven if you aren’t on the keto diet, you’ll enjoy this coconut veggie,...
The keto diet is similar to the Atkins diet, but its roots go back even farther into dietetics history. Coconut Veggie Stir Fry Cauliflower rice, broccoli and squash fill this coconut stir-fry with...
View ArticleWalmart is selling $10 ramen. It’s fancy, frozen and actually quite good.
You know upscale ramen has become mainstream when Walmart gets in on the game. This bowl of ramen came from a packaged kit that Walmart is now selling in its frozen section. The soft boiled eggs,...
View ArticleGot an old piece of wedding cake in your freezer? We want to see it.
Earlier this week, I told you the story of Zollie and William Goodrich Jones, a couple that married in Belton in 1890 and whose legacy lives on in a piece of their wedding cake. Beth Norvell, the...
View ArticleHow to make the prettiest apple tart you’ve ever seen
Apple season is so close, I can smell it. Every fall, I try to go back to Missouri to buy fresh apples from the orchards near my hometown, and although those apples aren’t quite ready yet, the change...
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