Lone Star
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You are so right Jaymes. I look high and low every year to find just plain old field corn. If I am lucky enough to find it, I buy all I can and put it up.
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Well, I would have to say that a GRITS girl understands and takes to heart the phrase "Pretty is as pretty does" (and it was probably beaten into her lil head)!
Manners matter. A lot. Be nice to everybody and make everyone feel comfortable.
Never go out of the house looking like you just got out of bed. I swear, I am physically incapable of going anywhere, even to run Saturday errands without my hair and make-up done. It is kind of sad in a way, but extremely uncomfortable to be without it. Just yesterday, in the shopping center parking lot, I saw a little old lady with stiff sprayed red hair fixing her lipstick in the rear view mirror before she went into Wal-Mart.
Well, I guess it is to be expected, the way I was raised. Even as a teenager, my mother would not let me out of the House to go to the BEACH without curling my hair and applying makup. She would just say "at least you will look nice when you get there!"
I am not sure if the hair/make-up/dress thing is for all of the South, but I would assume it is and it most certainly is true for Texas.
I guess that makes me a GRITS girl!
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We camp on our place in South Texas several times a year during dove and deer season, sometimes just our family, and sometimes with a crowd.
Dove season in September is much more of a social event than the more solitary deer hunting, and the meals usually revolve around a grill. If everyone has had a good hunt, the doves are cleaned and a jalapeno is inserted into the breast. Then they are wrapped in bacon and grilled over mesquite (which is everywhere!). If you don’t have many people and don’t want to grill, the dove can be roasted over the open flame of the campfire. A big pot of pinto beans cooked all day in a Dutch oven on a grate goes with everything. Add a few tortillas and LOTS of beer and you have a fabulous South Texas camp dinner and are ready for the nightly game of booray (boure)!
Breakfast is made in a cast iron skillet on the grate or a Coleman stove. Sautee onions, peppers, tomatoes until soft. Pour in scrambled eggs and strips of corn tortillas and cook until soft-set for delicious migas. Other mornings might be the usual bacon and eggs. I have not mastered the art of Dutch oven biscuit making, but vow to someday!
Lunch is usually on your own sandwiches as hunters come in.
For the cold weather deer season - rub a cold cast iron skillet with garlic and add a little oil. Salt and pepper steaks and pan fry. Remove the steaks and fry up potatoes with lots of onions. Serve with Pinto beans, and all is well with the world.
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My worst meal was the one my husband to be prepared for me. I was working the evening shift at the hospital, so he invited me for lunch one day. I was already impressed at the cleanliness and decor of his apartment, so I thought he might be able to cook too.
He served me spaghetti topped with cold Ragu from a jar that was in the fridge. I ate it to be polite, as he beamed at me.
I did not tell him how horrible it was until we had been married 20 years.
He has turned into quite a cook in that time.
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Central Market on Weslayan and Westheimer would be your best bet. I was there last weekend, but did not spend much time in the fruit section. They did have a large variety of oranges.
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Jack-in-the-Box tacos. I don't know if there is any actual natural food in them.
I should say naturally occuring food.
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I have used the Maggi brand pastes with good results. I made chicken tikka masala last weekend for my family using the paste, and they loved it.
I also like the shaan brand.
What about some of the brands of frozen foods? I have not tried them yet.
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Wow Toliver! I thought the Berryhill restaurant prices were high at a buck each! 6.00 a dozen seems to be the going rate around here in Houston for tamale ladies.
I see that you are Bakersfield. We lived there for two years when I was in high school, and we used to get the best tamales I have ever tasted from a tamale factory somewhere there in town. They were big and fat, filled with shredded beef with a black olive in the middle. They were not anything like our little Texas tamales. The funny thing was that those delicious tamales were made by a Korean family. I wonder if they are still there.
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Our tamale lady comes around to our office every Friday like clockwork. She only makes chicken for $6.00 a dozen. Most of us buy a dozen every Friday for the weekend.
I agree that tamales on Christmas eve is more normal than the tree! Tamles, chili, pico de gallo, guacamole and queso flameda - the tradition never varies.
I have never endeavored to make my own, as there is usually a tamale source available - women who make them and sell them outside of stores, or a tamale truck in my neck of the woods.
Last year I ordered ours from the Spanish Village as I had a real time issue. They were disappointingly dry. I will use Berryhill's as a back up in the future, but they are $12.99 a dozen.
My brothers MIL has finally refused to make them for her family anymore at Christmas, stating it was just too much. Sadly, none of her daughters has picked up the torch.
I enjoy reading about the ambitious tamalada plans and can't wait to see the results! It really is a community/family project. Someday, if I have enough wherewithal to stand another big project after fall sausage making, I intend to try it too.
For now, I will just rely on our tamale lady. I am going to ask her if she can make pork for Christmas....
Good luck y'all!
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Forgot to mention Paulie's on Westheimer for the shrimp BLT and a raspeberry Linzer cookie!
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Basis this thread, I have to make it to Barbeque Inn. But I will be ordering the Chicken Fried Steak. I haven't had a really good one in a very long time. And I can't believe that I have never been there.
fifi - the Barbeque Inn is one of my favorites. It is like going back in a time warp to those dark, clubby type places of the 70's. The waitresses (I have never seen a waiter) are all old pros and move around that place like nobodys business. I can never resist the chicken fried chicken, but one of these days I am going to have the fried chicken. It takes 20 minutes to cook and I have just been there at lunch where time was an issue. The salads come out chilled with crackers and little pats of butter like you remember. The pies are also wonderful. I asked one time who made them, and I cannot remember the name exactly, but it was something like Ms. Dees pies.
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Looked in the Yellow Pages -
Steamboat Bills
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The rolls you mentioned are called pistolettes. They are sometimes hard to find. You have to be looking for them.
If you are traveling on a Friday, take the 210 loop in Lake Charles and look for Pitt Grill on Prien Lake Road. A superior seafood buffet on Fridays. Probably a pretty good plate lunch other days of the week, but I've only ever caught it on Friday.
There is a great place for boudin in DeQuincy, but the name escapes me at the moment. It's on Hwy 190, if that would help.
Jennings has The Boudin King. Don't bother. Better food farther east.
Thanks. I wish I could remember the name of the place in Lake Charles that had the pistolettes.
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We have decided to go to the Grand Casino for a few days after Christmas for a little R&R and to throw some money away on the craps tables.
Are there any noteworthy places to eat there other than the standard casino fare?
We will be driving I-10, so any recommendations are welcome.
I remember stopping in Lake Charles one year and we had lunch at a place with a name something like "Steamboat Willie's". Concrete floors, minimal decor and lots of families eating heaps of crawfish piled on newspapers. Would love to go back there, but am not sure if that is the right name.
They also made these french rolls with etoufee stuffed inside, but I can't remember what they were called either!
(Might have had teensy hangover)
Can anyone help this poor Texan out?
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Our little office goes to lunch at Barnaby's (604 Fairview St, Houston, Texas 77006 713.522.0106)at least once a week. It is, in my opinion the best value in town. I have never had anything there that was not absolutely delicious. The salads are served in Fiesta type mixing bowls with loads of "the good stuff". I usually get a half-order which is only six dollars. The Cobb salad is my favorite, with loads of roasted chicken, eggs, bacon and heavenly blue cheese. The Chicken Mediterranean is next on my list.
The burgers are wonderful too. They use only organic beef and grill them medium. There is the blue cheese bacon burger (my fave) , the chili burger, green chile burger, guacamole burger and a hickory burger. All served with the best fries in Houston - thin and crispy with a heavy dose of Tex-Joy seasoning. Even if we are all having salads we order a basket of the fries to share.
There are other entrees as well. The Chicken Mill Valley is my favorite - a grilled chicken breast covered with creamed spinach and provolone cheese, served with the delectable fries and a little dish of hot apples. Dr. Gales meatloaf and mashed potatoes are very good too.
We only go to the original location on Fairview, and it is charmingly eccentric and always packed. The waitstaff (especially Renee and Chris) are very lively and friendly and there is always an eclectit group of diners there.
It is one of my favorite places for lunch in Houston and I would encourage everyone to go. The amount and quality of the food there combined with the very reasonable prices make it one of the best values in town.
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Barnaby's - a regular lunchtime haunt for us. The Cobb salad with honey-mustard dressing and the best fries in Houston!
Kams for dumplings
Nikko Nikkos - all time favorite is the Chicken soup, have to have it at least once a week.
Barbeque Inn - chicken fried chicken
Yale grill - cheeseburgers
El Tiempo - fajitas
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Recently I read an interview with retired White House Pastry Chef Roland Mesnier , who had been in the White House for decades. One of the questions was what does a good cook need in the kitchen? His answer was: Crisco, nothing else will do!
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Hominy Casserole
16 oz. jar jalapeño Cheese Whiz
2-15 oz. cans golden hominy, drained
8 oz sour cream
4 oz. jar diced pimentos, drained
1/2 yellow onion, coarsely chopped
Fritos, crushed for topping
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine all ingredients, with the exception of the corn flakes, in a large bowl. Mix well. Place in 9x13 inch baking dish. Spread crushed corn flakes on top. Bake uncovered for 30 minutes. Serve hot.
Makes 8-10 servings
Delicious!
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The asparagus casserole was always on the table for any special meal on our table growing up in Texas. I still make it! I use the liquid drained from the canned asparagus for the white sauce, and then layer the asparagus with the sauce, cheese, and hard boiled eggs. No mushrooms in ours.
Now my granmother always made casseroles out of hominy, which just has to be of Southern origin
My favorite was a frito/pepper/cheese/hominy concoction. Wish I could find the recipe!
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The relish tray is always present at our holidays. To my mother-in-law, it was a sort of rite of passage for the new daughter-in-laws. Before you were requested (permitted) to bring any other kind of dish to a get together, the new bride had to pass muster with a relish tray. Depending on who brings it, it can be in cut glass or a divided plastic sombrero. Who knows?
The only thing we would have in addition to the items already posted, would be pickled jalapenos - if you don't put them out, somebody is going to ask for them.
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Quote: "Then somewhere my sister came up with the idea of using cheap store brand biscuits. On a well floured board, you smash them flat, turning to get a flour coating on both sides. Shake off the excess flour and cut into strips. AAAAHHH! Perfect. "
That is the way my Granny always made them, and I still do. You are right, the cheap biscuits are the best, don't go with any of those "fancy" ones!
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My mother always made the standard tuna salad - called "Tuna fish". Starkist light in oil, Hellmans, chopped onions, chopped boiled eggs and lots of sweet pickle relish. She would also add pecans, which I could tolerate, but she would also add chopped apples which I just HATED. It takes a long time to pick apples out of a tuna fish sandwich.
"Tuna fish" is on the menu at our house every Saturday. I make a big bowl in the morning and people eat as they come and go. It is expected.
I am also a huge fan of the tuna melt. The tuna does not get all that warm - just under the broiler long enough to melt the cheese topped with thinly sliced tomatoes.
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Grain Alcohol and Grape Koolaid.
called "purple passion" where I went to school. I think people actually dropped dead from drinking it. LOL
We called this concotion "Purple Jesus" - I don't know why.
Another college cocktail - Tab and Vodka - for the calorie conscious.
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Yes - anyway I can get it.
Are you a Grits girl?
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Well, you could find all in wanted in Dallas or Houston!