Hubby and I had the rare occasion to utilize the services of a babysitter in order to have a date night. What?!?! I know, seriously! He’d been working so many overtime hours on a project at work that they gave him a nice hefty gift card to Gumbo’s, a local legend here in these parts.
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Now with 10 locations in the southwestern US, Z Tejas is an Austin-born restaurant that incorporates flavors of the southwest into food that is not necessarily southwestern. Think rotisserie chicken that is smoked with the flavors of chilies or pork chops that are marinated in Adobo sauce. This is the kind of food that Z [...]
I’m not entirely sure how this particular cookbook ended up in my VAST collection. It must have been some time during the turmoil of my catering days, but it has sat for some time, neglected, on my shelf and I decided to take it down, dust it off and give it a good once over.
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Hubby and I had a rare day the other day when he wasn’t at work, and both kids were at a friends house. With an entire day on our hands to do what we wanted, we decided that it ought to consider lunch at the kind of place you really don’t want to take the [...]
There’s something special about the area I live in that makes companies want to use us as a test market. Case in point Wendy’s. I was in my super-mom rush to get home from the grocery store and hadn’t eaten since sweating off several pints of liquid at the gym. Parched and famished I pull [...]