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Lightened Comfort Food: Chicken Pot Pie

As the temperatures drop, we begin to crave creamy and comforting meals. Creamy warm crock-pot dinners, tender beef pot roasts, cheesy pasta dishes and many more delicious winter foods always come to mind when the weather begins to change. But sometimes we want to enjoy the comforts of winter food ... More >>

10 Dishes We're Excited About on Houston Restaurants' New Fall Menus

Roost Bistro is one of the restaurants with an exciting fall menu. Fall means looking forward to more than just oyster season, chili cook-offs and pumpkin spice lattes at Starbucks. It means that plenty of our favorite restaurants (and, yes, bars too) across the city are issuing new seasonal menus ... More >>

Where Are We Eating? Clue: Sort of Like Saarland

Although the restaurant in question this week is French -- and a fine one at that -- the dish we enjoyed as one of its nightly specials last week was almost downright Germanic: cardamom-brined pork tenderloin served with spiced apples and a slice of pert potato pie. Just to keep things en cheque, ho ... More >>

Fast Times: Kentucky Fried Chicken 'Chunky Chicken' Pot Pie

A $4, fast food pot pie -- who could resist? Certainly not me, and as soon as I saw an advert for the Chunky Chicken Pot Pie at KFC I was pulling up to the drive-thru window. Chicken pot pie is a total throwback to my childhood, when my brother and I would turn up our noses at the delicious, homemad ... More >>

Ingredient of the Week: Leftover Turkey

The week after Thanksgiving is often riddled with cooks across America scratching their heads at what to do with all the leftover turkey. Not to worry. Here at Eating Our Words, we offer not one, not two, but three things to do with that leftover turkey, not to mention its bones. From sandwiches ... More >>

First Look at The Bird & The Bear

Fried green tomatoes and bacon on brioche...these are a few of my favorite things.​The corner restaurant on the end of a River Oaks strip mall at 2810 Westheimer has been a lot of things. It's been Rickshaw, it's been Fins, it was even temporarily home to Tony Mandola's Gulf Coast Kitchen whil ... More >>

Crystal Cook and Sandy Pollock: The Casserole Queens Cookbook

National Pie Day and Oh My! Pocket Pies

Angie Villasenor triumphs. ​Did you know that yesterday was National Pie Day? Apparently, a few of you did. I went out to Houston's 2nd Annual National Pie Day Celebration, held in the historic Heights shopping district at 339 W. 19th Street. The event was co-hosted by Oh My! Pocket Pies ... More >>

Chef Chat, Part 2: Joe Phillips of Oh My! Pocket Pies

​This week we're getting to know do-it-yourself street food entrepreneur Joe Phillips of Oh My! Pocket Pies. Today he tells the story of the truck's paint job and talks about the challenges of owning of a food truck in Houston. EOW: Who did the graffiti on the truck? JP: We had a contest on ... More >>

Top 5 Uses for Holiday Leftovers

savorytartGo fix us a turkey pot pie.​The holidays are awesome. Everybody makes their best dish, which usually leaves enough food left over for a small army. Rather than continuing to gorge yourself on reheated, plain-old leftovers, here are some ways to help gobble up what's left. 5. Make i ... More >>

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