Easter

Eric & Kim Williams: Charged With Capital Murder In Kaufman County Prosecutor Killings; They Don't Seem To Be Part Of The Cartels Rick Perry Speculated About

The weirdest episode (we hope) in the history of Kaufman County law enforcement took a major step today as a former Justice of the Peace and his wife were charged with killing the DA, his wife and another prosecutor who had helped convict him on a theft charge. Eric and Kim Williams have been charg ... More >>

How To: Homemade Stove-Top Smoker

Last summer, my mom and I attended a fish cooking class at Hubbell & Hudson. We learned how to make fish in several different ways, but one of the methods stood out to me. Rather than grilling a piece of salmon, we smoked an entire salmon on the stove. This was the most tender and flavorful fish I h ... More >>

Five Ways To Use Leftover Jelly Beans

If you have a ton of Jelly Beans left over after Easter, you don't have to just eat them by the handful out of the bag. In my family, we always have an enormous amount of Easter candy, especially Jelly Beans, leftover until Halloween. Then the cycle repeats. But, here are five ways you can put your ... More >>

The 5 Best Things to Eat or Drink This Weekend: Killen's BBQ, Sprouts Grand Opening, Iron Throne Beer, Ash Bash and Easter Brunch

Just because it's Easter Sunday doesn't mean you have to spend the weekend hunting eggs. There are plenty of non-Easter events coming up in the next two days. Killen's BBQ Pop-Up 2804 South Main, Pearland Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Within a few months, Ronnie Killen will open up his hi ... More >>

A Feast of Ice and Fire: Throw a Game of Thrones Season Premiere Party

Winter. Is. Coming. If you are confused by that statement, stop reading now. We are no longer friends. (Jk you can keep reading.) This Sunday is a special day. Yes, I know it's Easter Sunday and that is a very special day to many, but that is not what I'm talking about here. I'm talking about th ... More >>

Saturday Funday? Houstonians Hold Sunday Sacred for Brunching

After the third out-of-towner in a week asked me why Saturday brunch wasn't a "thing" in Houston, I got curious. Once is a blip, twice is a coincidence, three times is a trend. The problem is that -- as far as I know -- Saturday isn't the traditional brunching day of choice in Houston. Saturdays ar ... More >>

10 Ways to Make Ordinary Deviled Eggs Extraordinary

Each Easter, my family and I dye hard-boiled eggs with the standard grocery store dying kit. My mom then hides them around the house for our Easter egg scavenger hunt/overly competitive holiday tradition on Easter morning. After we all run around the house in hopes of being the Easter egg hunt cham ... More >>

Italian Easter Pie: Wherefore Art Thou in Houston?

For me there are two unfortunate realities of being an "adult" and spending Easter away from my extended family. First, if I want an Easter basket, I have to make my own. (Which I have done and will do this year because I have no shame.) Second, I will not be able to feast on the fabulous Italia ... More >>

5 Easy Easter Lamb Recipes

Easter is less than a week away, so if you haven't planned your Easter dinner yet, now is the time to do so. Rather than having the typical honey-baked ham or a smorgasbord of deviled eggs, many homes will celebrate with a delicate, tender and elegant piece of meat such as lamb. Lamb is not the eas ... More >>

Seven Spring Music Festivals In Texas That Beat Staying Home

SXSW is officially over, thank the sweet baby Jesus. Now music fans have already begun to fan out to the four winds, seeking sunshine, swimsuits, alcohol, easy hookups and all the tunes they can handle until it gets ridiculously hot. Texans: you have about three hours. It's already begun over in Mi ... More >>

Top 5 Special Edition Easter Candies

Like candy? Easter should be your second favorite day of the year (after Halloween) given the plethora of special and/or limited edition confections that emerge in celebration of the holiday. Last October I scoured the shelves for the best varieties for All Hallow's Eve, I've done the same this Marc ... More >>

The Top 5 Things to Eat, Drink or Celebrate This Weekend: Revival Market, Anvil, Sonoma Brunch, Hotel Derek's Early Easter & Ninfa's Crawfish

In case your weekend doesn't revolve around the parking lot full of food trucks at Haute Wheels or all-you-can-eat brisket at the Houston Barbecue Festival, here are five other great things to eat, drink or do this weekend. Revival Market's two-year anniversary party Saturday, 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. 550 ... More >>

Top 5 Homemade Easter Basket Treats

It's hard to believe that Easter will be here in less than two weeks. With the holiday arriving a lot sooner than it did the previous year, there seems to be quite a rush to find the perfect treats to place in your children's (or spouse's) Easter baskets. Choices range from colorful Peeps and giant ... More >>

Where To Brunch on Easter Sunday 2013

From holiday classics like the Easter bunny and roast leg of lamb to Mexican-style brunch buffets and live bands, here's where to eat this Easter:

The Eating...Our Words 100: Catherine Rodriguez, Pastry Chef at The Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa

Since the age of 18, Catherine Rodriguez has been a rockstar at making pastries and desserts. She started her culinary career at the Institut Villa Pierrefeu in Gilon, Switzerland, then traveled back to the states to improve and develop her pastry and dessert skills in California at various kitchens ... More >>

(Possibly) On the Menu: The McGangBang

It was a lovely Sunday afternoon. I was sitting in a room full of friends as we laughed, noshed on fruit cocktail, enjoyed a non-fruit cocktail or two and finished setting out the day's "spread" when it happened. You could smell it before it even hit the door. McDonald's was here. While others brou ... More >>

Wine of the Week: Great Value for an Under-$40 Red Wine

Here at Wine Time, we generally try to write about under-$25 bottles readily available in the Houston market. Even though there are many great price-quality-ratio (PQR) wines out there at lower "price points" (as we say in wine-speak), under-$25 represents the current sweet spot in my experience, wh ... More >>

Secret Food Confessions

No matter how well-educated one becomes about food, some cravings never go away. Some are born in childhood. My husband complained for years when Grape Tang was discontinued and gets bizarre cravings for the crime against nature called "circus peanuts." Supposedly, it's a candy; a mind-boggling, rub ... More >>

Wine Time: A Favorite Wine for Easter Lamb

When it comes to pairing wine with food, we live by two maxims at our house. 1. If it grows with it, it goes with it. (Motto attributed to the great New York restaurateur Danny Meyer.) Look to traditional pairings as rules-of-thumb. For example, the inhabitants of the western coast of France famo ... More >>

What I Want In My Easter Basket

In one of his stand-up routines, Jerry Seinfeld has a terrific bit on Halloween, in which he says the "only clear thought" he had in the first 10 years of his life was: "Get candy." Hmm. "Get candy" still dominates my psyche 30 years later...and counting. Which is probably one of the reasons why H ... More >>

Dining Out on Easter, a.k.a. Brunchapalooza

It's a little bit breakfast, a little bit lunch, and it's socially acceptable to drink before noon in public. Yes, my friends: Brunch is a beautiful thing. And Easter Sunday is the mother of all brunch celebrations. When it comes to Easter in Houston these things we know for sure: Easter egg hunts ... More >>

PETA Asks Joel Osteen to Hang a "Go Vegan" Banner in His Church

We guess there's no harm in trying. PETA has written a letter asking Joel Osteen to hang a large "Go Vegan" banner in Lakewood Church, for which in return they will "prepare a delicious Easter Sunday faux-ham meal with all the trimmings for his parishioners." Why Osteen? PETA seems to think he's h ... More >>

This Week in Deliciousness

​Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where opinions are like nipples: everybody has four or five weird ones. We started the week off right by not at all clearing up the confusion regarding the difference between fish sauce and nuoc mam. The conclusion: Vietnamese restauran ... More >>

Top 5 Food-Inspired Holiday Games

Photo by Neighborhood CentersThese kids wouldn't last a second in our egg hunt.​Raise your hand if you are obsessed with holidays. I think I've spent a good $50 on mini pumpkins this month. I like hiding them around the apartment and surprising my fiancé with them; next to the alarm clock whe ... More >>

Odd Pair: Boudin Balls and Brunello

​Steaming boudin balls, freshly fried by Aunt Pam (who lives just a few doors away), were met with gasps of delight when they magically appeared at our family's Easter gathering last week. I had been waiting for the main attraction -- the spiral-sliced baked ham and all the fixings -- to start ... More >>

This Week in Deliciousness

The one in the tiara will not be putting up with your crap today, thanks. Probably not tomorrow, either.​Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where we've constructed a gigantic, hollow Peep with our leftover Easter Peeps and we're trying to come up with a way to lure Ni ... More >>

Lamb Cakes and Leprechauns: Holiday Cake Heebie-Jeebies

Please, don't cut me!​Many holiday traditions are built around food. One of my family's traditions is lamb cake. As far back as I can remember, lamb cake has been a part of our Easter festivities. It is always plain white cake, with cream-cheese frosting and green-dyed coconut grass. Even aft ... More >>

Health Department Roundup

"That ice machine is looking pristine, bro."​You know what Jesus was doing around Easter? Getting crucified and coming back from the dead to hang out in the Middle East instead of in paradise with his dad, for some reason. You can learn about the first part of this in Mel Gibson's The Passion ... More >>

How to Use Up Leftover Easter Candy

Flickr user: Qfamily​The Easter bunny has come and gone, taking with him our excuse for consuming candy like a five-year-old and generally overindulging. If, despite your best efforts, you are still left with a huge basket full of candy, here are some unique ways to use up your stash before th ... More >>

Upcoming Events

Want to see someone carve Prince William's face in this cheese? Of course you do.​Yes, it's Easter weekend, which means -- for some of you -- an extra day off and making extravagant dining plans for Sunday which involve uncomfortable clothing and your aunt who wears too much perfume. If you do ... More >>

This Week in Deliciousness

That's not Jesus, that is clearly Rasputin. This pierogi will take ages to destroy.​Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where our skin is getting tan and leathery, our forearms like bronze hamhocks, our necks like freshly-stained rawhide, our nipples like crisp yet moi ... More >>

Jesus Is On the Mainline: The Son Of God In Rock & Roll

​With Easter Sunday coming up, we delved into all the instances of Jesus Christ in rock and roll. He's been a popular lyrical subject since he was born over 2,000 years ago, and his family enterprise runs neck and neck with sex when it comes to the entire lyrical history of music. Hymns or lov ... More >>

Cooking the Easter Bunny

KILL IT WITH FIRE.​If your kids haven't already figured out that there's no Easter Bunny, here's an easy way to teach them a valuable lesson while also scarring them for life: Cook and serve rabbit this year for Easter. Decorate with Easter eggs for effect. This is absolutely the kind of thin ... More >>

Eating Out on Easter Sunday

​Ahhh Easter, a pastel-colored day filled with stale marshmallow candy, uncomfortable clothing, hard-boiled eggs and magical hares. And when the Easter Bunny comes to town, many of us go out to eat. So many, in fact, that Easter Sunday is currently the second most popular day for dining out (M ... More >>

Seven Easter Candy Favorites

​These days, my Easter candy consumption is less "get up early and hunt for my Easter basket" and more "stay up late stuffing my face with Easter treats." I was at H-E-B the other day, and I spent half an hour browsing the Easter display to see what's going on in the world of Easter candy. Not ... More >>

Bikes on Easements

North-south cycling trails could be a go!

Cadbury Eggs vs. Peeps: The Ultimate Easter Candy Battle

Graphics by Monica Fuentes​Peeps and Cadbury Eggs might be the two most divisive Easter candies on shelves today. Loving or hating either one can easily be decried as heresy from staunch Peep apologists or Cadbury defenders. People don't seem to be as passionate about things like Reese's Peanu ... More >>

God Is My Friend: Rebecca Black's "Friday" Gets A Holy Overhaul

To sate the born-again masses, Rebecca Black's "Friday" has been given a Christ-filled overhaul courtesy of young singer Sadie B, complete with church-championing lyrics and the handy lesson that Monday comes after church.

Upcoming Events

​As you may have read and seen around the Internet, this Sunday is Linda's Block Party at 1834 Westheimer, a fundraising event to help defray medical costs for Linda Salinas. Salinas, a local bartender and sommelier, was injured in a scooter accident on Sunday night, and the Houston restaurant ... More >>

Win A Pair Of Tickets To Odd Pair

​More than half the tickets to our upcoming Odd Pair event at Absolve on July 25 have already been snapped up. Have you bought yours yet? Like its namesake column, Odd Pair will present an array of eight different tasting stations -- each with a food and wine pairing quite unlike anything you' ... More >>

Odd Pair: Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs

​A peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich. That's the way our wine guru described this week's Odd Pair. You may be scratching your head, thinking, "How can wine and candy taste like a sandwich?" Well, surprisingly, it can. This week, we're pairing leftover Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs with win ... More >>

Top 10 Foods to Use to Dye Your Easter Eggs Naturally

​This time of year, the stores are inundated with tons of egg coloring kits containing all sorts of artificial dyes and decorations to delight our whimsical fancies. These kits can be tons of fun and often impart great uniform color to the eggs. However, it seems that lately more and more peop ... More >>

Top 5 Worst Easter Candies

We've already professed our love for Easter candy. Now we're willing to admit where it falls short. After all, no holiday is complete without its nasty options to complement the greatness. Without further complaint, here are our five all-time most hated Easter candies. ​5. Pez In our somet ... More >>

Easter in the Gardens

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Easter in the Gardens

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