Texana's Kitchen

  Yep, he did.  After eating 2 pounds of butter a few months ago, tonight he stole (literally snatched it while I was in the washroom) 2 blocks of cream cheese and ate them.

  In the South, we have a particular fondness for using terms of endearment, and we don’t reserve them just for those close to us.  We use them everywhere, at all times, and to anyone.  If we don’t know your real name, we’ll call you Sugar, Sweetheart, Sweetie, or Darlin’. If we know your real […]

It is often said that cooking is art and baking is science.  Cooking was so natural to a right-brained, artistic type like myself.  I viewed a recipe as the canvas on which I would create my masterpiece.   A blank space to which I would add my own color with a pinch of this, or […]

I hate squash.  Or did for the first 35 years of my life, anyway.  In fact, squash is the primary reason that I developed such a passion for the culinary arts.  I know that makes about as much sense as a fur coat in Tahiti, but it’s true. Growing up, my only exposure to squash […]

I was never good at math.  Like most girls, I excelled in verbal acrobatics and science, but math and history were, well, Greek to me.  Not surprising, I guess, since so much of what we know of math was first contemplated, theorized, solved, and proved thousands of years ago in ancient Greece.  Of course, there […]

Boys, don’t run off yet.  We will mention bar food, beer and other booze in this article.  I also mention hockey, but don’t get too excited about that. For as many times as I have baked cupcakes, eaten cupcakes, and written about cupcakes, I realize that I have not actually included any recipes for cupcakes.  I […]

Hoe Cakes, also called Johnny Cakes, are an old southern recipe, originating like so many great southern recipes did—from meager ingredients and improvisation born of the hardscrabble life of a slave.  The first recipes were most likely very basic—ground dried corn, maybe a bit of honey or molasses, and lard or fat drippings, cooked on […]

Pies…..Whoopie Pies.  But since I got your attention, you may as well read a little further, right?  Since you are here and all. In the Northeast, they are called Whoopie Pies.  The theory is that Amish cooks would spoon the dollops of leftover cake batter into little globs, and bake them to test the temperature […]

Have you ever watched Bridezilla?  Those girls are CRAZY!  I don’t know how most of them managed to find a mate.  Threat of physical harm or some other coercion must have been at play.  I guess it’s possible, but unlikely, that they were kind, civil ladies before they got engaged, then turned suddenly into the […]

Okay, so this is the last posting involving cupcakes for a while–I swear.  But they were so cute, I had to.  This was my baby sister’s baby shower last weekend.  As all parties in Corpus Christi should be, this one was sea themed….I did four different cupcakes: Pistachio with Almond Buttercream and topped with luster […]