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How to make the one and only chile con carne, according to Robb Walsh
With this chilly weather, everyone’s thinking about warming foods. This gray afternoon, I went digging for my own go-to chili recipe — with sweet potatoes, black beans and a weird mix of spices — but I...
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Where to buy fried, smoked Thanksgiving turkeys in Austin
Editor’s note: This post has been updated for 2017 Are you frying your own Thanksgiving turkey this year? Maybe you’re going to brine and bake one yourself. However, if you’re looking to outsource your...
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You might scoff, but this is the key ingredient to my favorite weeknight chili
Some dishes come so naturally that you take them for granted. I’ve made this chili more than probably any other dish I’ve cooked for my kids, yet I haven’t taken the time to write the recipe down,...
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Confused about Austin’s composting program? Here’s what you need to know
Composting can be a mucky, gross, smelly, decaying mess. You know this if you have a compost pile set up at your house. Sometimes you add too many leftovers and not enough leaves and the pile gets,...
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Cozy weeknight recipe: Spanish-style gigante beans with almonds, sweet roast...
No matter if you call them butter beans or lima beans, those large, creamy beans you’ll find in cans or dried at the grocery store are a hearty legume that should be part of your cooking catalog. Lima...
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Can Halo Top ice cream compete with an ultra-rich Teo gelato?
I didn’t know much about Halo Top ice cream until this year, when Eric Webb impressed me with a ranking of every flavor of what I only knew to be a low calorie ice cream. Halo Top is the bestselling...
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Ask Addie: Is it safe to bake a casserole and drive it to Fort Worth?
A reader called this morning with a very important Thanksgiving question: Can I bake a sweet potato casserole and drive it three hours to my daughter’s Thanksgiving in Fort Worth? Sweet potato...
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Your yearly reminder to start thawing that Thanksgiving turkey soon
Roasting (or frying!) a turkey on Thanksgiving isn’t nearly as hard as people make it out to be, but one thing that often trips people up is thawing the bird. Frozen turkeys can take longer than you...
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Does HEB’s $5 curbside service mean you never walk into an HEB again?
You might never have to set foot in an H-E-B again. The H-E-B at Oltorf and Congress in South Austin is one of about 17 H-E-B locations in Central Texas where you can pay for someone else to shop for...
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No Christmas cookie ice cream for you, Blue Bell fans
As if surviving a listeria outbreak wasn’t enough, Blue Bell is facing the wrath of its fans for a different reason this winter. Christmas cookie is one of Blue Bell’s most popular holiday flavors, but...
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Williams Sonoma catalog now selling this Austin treat
Remember when cake balls were the dessert du jour? Austin Cake Ball has been featured in the Neiman Marcus catalog for three years, and this year, Williams Sonoma picked them up, too. Contributed by...
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Ask Addie: I love cake balls, but they are so expensive! How do you make them?
Call them cake balls, call them cake pops or call them plain delicious. Cake pops were a huge dessert trend starting around 2010, but they remain a fun project for families to make at home. Contributed...
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Our five favorite cookie recipes to celebrate National Cookie Day
National Cookie Day is here! Every day of December should be National Cookie Day, if you ask me. Snickerdoodles, thumbprint cookies, kitchen sink cookies, sugar cookies, oatmeal raisin cookie, salted...
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An über sweet story behind an old cookie called pfeffernüsse
I’d never heard of pfeffernüsse until 2012, when a reader named Sally Jo Hahn emailed me to try to find a recipe for her dad. He was about to turn 92, and he absolutely loved these spiced “peppernut”...
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What food rescue group Keep Austin Fed really wants for Christmas this year
Keep Austin Fed has been preventing food waste and reducing hunger in Austin since 2004, but it wasn’t until last year that they could hire their first employee. Lisa Barden, program director for Keep...
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Remember these oatmeal peanut butter bars from school?
Reader and local freelance writer Kelly Larson posted a photo on Instagram that made me remember another childhood treat I loved: oatmeal peanut butter bars. These oatmeal peanut butter bars were a...
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Making New Year’s plans? Time to enter the black-eyed pea cook-off in Hye
We haven’t yet had any Christmas ham or Hanukkah latkes, but it’s time to start thinking about New Year’s plans. William Chris Vineyard in Hye is hosting a Black-Eyed Pea Party and Cook-off on New...
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Here’s a wacky weekend project for you: Velveeta fudge
I’d heard about marshmallow fudge, a common shortcut to make the beloved holiday treat, but I was having a hard time wrapping my head around Velveeta fudge. Some cooks use marshmallows or other...
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Eggnog isn’t the only festive cotton candy coming to the Trail of Lights this...
A local cotton candy company is bringing a taste of the holidays to the Trail of Lights this year. Fancy Fluff is selling cotton candy in half a dozen holiday flavors, including apple cider and pumpkin...
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Where to buy stollen, challah other holiday breads in Austin
In America, we might associate the holidays with decadent, buttery sweets, but in many cultures around the world, Christmas and other winter holidays are the time to break out the specialty breads....
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