Vietnamese Barbecue Sauce with Red Boat Anchovy Salt
Out of the thousands of barbecue joints I’ve eaten at over the years, the sauce was of such quality that it bore mentioning only a handful of times: Rountree’s Hickory Pit in Birmingham; Luling City Market in Luling, Texas; Louie Mueller in Taylor, Texas; and the all-time king—Archibald’s in Northport, Alabama.
While New Orleans is indisputably a superior city to Austin there are a few things I miss dearly about the capital of Texas.
Namely migas. I’ve scoured New Orleans for this dish and have yet to find a single restaurant that is serving one of the defining foods of Tex-Mex cuisine.
Meanwhile back in Austin, hundreds of people are on queue at dozens of taquerias scattered about town-all serving a wide variety of migas and migas-like dishes.
New Orleans Daily Picayune advertisement. 1883
After some testing, I found that a traditional “easy” substitute—sweetened condensed milk plus a bit of unsweetened chocolate—gives a fudge that’s less sugary but still rich in chocolate flavor.
This recipe makes about 2.5 pounds of fudge.
A Recipe For Tiffin Inn Beef Stroganoff
On a recent taxi ride, our cabby was feeling loquacious, and she rambled on for quite a bit about how sorrowful she was over the closure.
DD hot sausage out of Bogalusa is a crucial ingredient in our gumbo
During this time I’ve learned that the Holy Trinity is not sacrosanct in the 22 parishes that comprise Cajun country.
Chataignier Supper Club prepares crawfish etouffee
York Peppermint Patty Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies
I no longer earn my living as a pastry chef but I still love the process of baking.
We have a life long love of gators.
Perhaps this was brought on by old actioners like Alligator [screenplay by John Sayles], the incredible 80s film wherein a beastly, 36 foot long gator attacks a stretch limo and occasionally erupts out of the Chicago sewer system to devour unwary residents of the Windy City.
RL Reeves Jr Recipe: Pinto Beans With Jalapenos and Bacon
When I’m motoring out to Central Texas barbecue’s legendary smokehouses I do not eat side dishes.
People fly to Texas from all over the globe to eat at the smoked meat temples of Smithville, Taylor, Lockhart and Luling.
It ain’t for the potato salad.
RL Reeves Jr Recipe: Spaghetti With Sweet Onion Brisket Ragu [photo courtesy Ryan Adams]
Such was the case on many trips to Agata’s kitchen in Alabaster, Alabama.
There is an enormous Italian diaspora in central Alabama.
For decades, immigrants from the Boot have traveled to Dixie to settle into the fertile blacklands, and begin their new lives among the country folk of Chilton, Shelby and Jefferson counties.
It’s a little known fact that the Birmingham area hosts some of the finest Italian restaurants in the whole United States.
Places where they still bring a hot loaf of bread to table the moment you’re seated, Chianti bottles line the walls, and the tablecloths?
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