Tabasco Pepper Sauce

Monday Night Cocktails at Double Trouble

I've always been a weak drinker. I'm usually one of those nurse-a-drink-for-an-hour-plus type girls, or a "cheap date," as I so often refer to myself. Whether it's a glass of wine or a cocktail, I usually sip slowly, and the stronger the drink, the smaller the sip. Socially, I can drink more if it's ... More >>

This Week In Food Blogs

29-95: This week, take a trip out to Marfa with J.C. Reid, who heads to far west Texas in search of a Tex-Mex item rarely found this far east. What is it? The "elusive flat enchilada," which sees tortillas and cheese stacked lasagna style and then baked before being topped with a fried egg. Looking ... More >>

Where Are We Drinking? Clue: Burgers and Beer

This unassuming Midtown watering hole has great happy hour specials, excellent sports-viewing perches and some fairly fine food for such a quiet little place: Its burgers are very good and its homemade gumbo isn't too shabby either, especially punched up with some Tabasco. Best of all, the typical M ... More >>

Southern-Fried Dim Sum from Yaki Snack Attack and Bernie's Burger Bus

Austin King is a nervous ball of energy. He hops around the small kitchen at the rear of Grand Prize Bar like a character in Super Mario Brothers, head down and face fixed in a grimace of determined concentration. He pulls dumplings from a fryer with one hand, sprinkles Tabasco-infused scallions ont ... More >>

Salade Niçoise Recipe (and Bandol Rosé Porn)

When it comes to making a great salade niçoise, it's all about the quality of the ingredients. But that doesn't mean that you need to make a special trip to Whole Foods Market just to make this humble summer dish. In fact, I make my niçcoise using ingredients I buy at H-E-B (except the extra-virgi ... More >>

Sampler Plate: This Week in Food Blogs

Houston Burgers: This burger blog has been dormant for a few months, but a brand-new post popped up in my Google Reader today -- and just in time for baseball season. This week, Darrell reviewed the new deep-fried mac 'n' cheese burger at Minute Maid Park, which contains the same deep-fried mac 'n' ... More >>

5 Simple, Spine-Chilling Snacks For Your Halloween Shindig

photo via buycostumes.com​Much like crafting chilling cocktails, creating a monster menu is simple and fun if you use a little imagination. We're sharing a few of our favorite Halloween treats perfect for both grown-up's and kid's parties that are actually easy to make -- most recipes have onl ... More >>

Eat a Burger, Fight Hunger at Little Bitty Burger Barn

​If I were asked to create my own burger to be featured on a menu, it would contain blue cheese and bacon -- and would preferably be served on a locally-baked bun; none of this soggy Sunbeam business. So imagine my surprise when I heard that Little Bitty Burger Barn owner Ricardo Luna had not ... More >>

Odd Pair: Grey Poupon and a Chewy Spanish Red

​Hamburger... it's what's for dinner at our house now that we're pregnant and counting every penny, budgeting for the arrival of Baby P. (Porterhouse steak for two will just have to wait until college.) Typically, when the beef-eater in me grumbles, I like to buy fatty ground sirloin, season ... More >>

Racing Rachael: Endless Summer

Carrie Applegate Jaeger​Nothing says summer better than some hundred degree weather, a nice cold beer, and a hot dog, right? Now, generally, I'm not a hot dog eater, but every year I smell a wiener on the grill and I chow down a dog or two. I don't usually love it, but it's such a quintessen ... More >>

Eating Red Beans and Rice Without a Fork

​I make a killer red beans and rice. It's so simple and easy to do, it always makes me flinch a little when I get the urge to order it at a restaurant - unless I'm in New Orleans, where it just comes with the territory, along with po-boys, hurricanes and Abita beer. On a recent visit to New O ... More >>

The World's Busiest Breakfast at Frank's Grill

It's been said before, but it bears repeating: Grabbing a seat at the counter of Frank's Grill (1915 Mangum, 713-682-8221) and watching the men work the hot griddle like a NASCAR pit crew is one of the finest ways to spend a weekend morning. "Look at them go!" crowed my breakfast companion in won ... More >>

Gelatin Clarified Stock

Frozen, ready to thaw and strain. ​This week, I'm making good on a promise and discussing gelatin clarification. While gelatin filtration -- the use of gelatin to clarify and concentrate flavorful liquids from a dizzying assortment of sources -- isn't exactly new, it's also not something with ... More >>

Whole Hogg

Hoggs n' Chicks serves creative pork and chicken dishes in Missouri City.

Top Ten Dining Etiquette Tips to Slow Your Devolution into a Caveman

vastaYes, you CAN figure this out. ​Humans seem to have lost their manners as we have journeyed from the '90s grunge era through the reality TV of the '00s to the present. I understand that you probably learned table manners from that one part of Point of No Return when Anne Bancroft schools ... More >>

An Economical Answer to Your Recipe Rut

​Home cooks know it's easy to get into a recipe rut. Yes, despite the eleventy jabillion recipes available to us via cookbooks, blogs, Web sites, TV shows, magazines, newspapers and exchanges, I still find myself making the same two or three recipes all the time. I love that Asian Pork Tenderl ... More >>

Fried Green Tomatoes at Home

Photo by kate e. did​In my mind, the summer months in Texas are inextricably tangled up with one food above all others: tomatoes. Growing up, we had a dish of sliced tomatoes with nearly every single meal during the summer. Breakfast, lunch and dinner, the bright, ruby slices were consumed as ... More >>

Robb Walsh's 100 Favorite Houston Dishes #4 Campechana at Goode Company Seafood

​Over the course of the next few months, I'm counting down 100 of my favorite Houston dishes. I chose some because they are such quintessential Houston creations, others for their cultural or historical significance, and others because they are just so damn tasty. Share your own nominations in ... More >>

Beaver's Bloody Mary

​I've been hearing how amazing the Bloody Mary at Beaver's (2310 Decatur St.) is ever since running into Chef Jonathan Jones one night a few months back at Anvil. He raved about his bacon-infused vodka, which seemed interesting, but not particularly alluring to me. Nevertheless, I was curious ... More >>

Please Make Obama Eat Some Cabbage

​I am worried about whether or not Barack Obama will be eating black-eyed peas and cabbage on New Year's. As everybody knows, you have to eat black-eyed peas for good luck and cabbage for prosperity on January first. I am not sure they have black-eyed peas in Hawaii (if that's where the Obamas ... More >>

Top 5 Hot Sauces That Will Make You Cry Like A Baby

Watery eyes, runny nose, burning throat. No, it's not allergy season. It's the delicious pain of hot sauce. Here is our list of top five fiery sauces that will make you cry like a baby. 1. El Yucateco Green Habañero Hot Sauce - This is quite possibly the hottest sauce we have ever tasted. We fi ... More >>

Washington Ave. Revisited

Forget what I said about Catalan – Chris Shepherd is one of the top toques in Texas.

Texas Traveler: Luvianos in Kyle

Photos by Mike GiglioOn a recent tail-between-legs retreat from a rough weekend in Austin -- sunburnt from a long float down the river, broke and dehydrated -- the Texas Traveler wanted only two things: free water and cheap sustenance.Luvianos in Kyle had plenty of both. Water-filled bags hung aroun ... More >>

Cinco de Mayo Recipe: Sonoran Hot Dogs

photos by Robb Walsh You have to thin mayonnaise with some lemon juice (and Tabasco sauce if you like) and put it into a squeeze bottle if you want to put the cool squiggles on top. But I'm getting ahead of myself. First, go to El Bolillo on Airline and buy the small size bolillos. Then get some b ... More >>

Easter Leftovers: Deviled Ham

Photo by Robb Walsh Deviled ham, made of ground-up ham with mayo, mustard and pickle relish, is one of my most vivid Easter memories. Late on Easter Sunday night, after all the festivities were concluded, my dad would get out the old hand-crank meat grinder from under the sink and grind up the lef ... More >>

Oysters and Coffee

photo by Robb Walsh These petite-sized Galveston Bay oysters made a lovely breakfast. I ate them with some heavily buttered German sourdough rye toast from the HEB on Bunker Hill and a cup of Community Club coffee. A drop of lemon and a dash of Tabasco perked up the breakfast half shells nicely. Oy ... More >>

A Short History of Shrimp Grits

Shrimp grits started out as a seasonal fisherman’s dish of shrimp cooked in bacon grease served over creamy grits in the Low Country where they were also known as “breakfast shrimp.” The simple seafood breakfast became an iconic Southern dish after Craig Claiborne wrote about it in the New Yor ... More >>

Eggs Poached in Milk Over Cheese Grits

Miracle Berry Party at La Strada

NOTSUOH'S

TEXAS PRAIRIE FIRE

Bloody Mary

Palace Lanes

Rev Run

Distortion

Cajun Cave

At Roadhouse dance hall, the party starts at 2 p.m. every Saturday

Hotter than Hasselhoff?

Maybe not yet, but Koufax is on the way

Binge Benefits

A look inside the bars of the Near Northside

That's Hot

Ostioneria 7 Mares

Best Chicken-Fried Steak

Pike's Peak

Catch the tattooed lady's act at the Rhythm Room

Best Afghani Restaurant

Kabul Restaurant

Best Fried Shrimp

Barbecue Inn

Best Hurricane

Floyd's

Food in the Nude

Artista

Ça C'est Bon

Café Artiste

Heat Stroke

Copeland's of New Orleans

Stirred and Shaken

Roll-N Saloon's Red Hots

Best Cold Boiled Shrimp

Captain Benny's Half Shell Oyster Bars

Clash of Cultures

Carl Walker

Our Daily Bread... And More

Located in a student chapel, Autry House wins converts with a humble homestyle menu

Just What the Doctor Ordered

What a Joke

The name isn't the only thing funny at the Fakawwee Lodge