Fried oysters with a chipotle-lime dipping sauce

I have to admit that I’m not in love with raw oysters. Nope, if I’m going to eat an oyster, I prefer that it be fried. It all began when I w...

Sour cream pound cake with ruby red grapefruit

Christmas Day, you could find my family and me driving along Highway 6 so we could have dinner with cousins in College Station. The view was...

Sopa de lima (Mexican lime soup) recipe

Whenever I get together with my Texan friends in New York, we’ll usually cook our favorite dishes from back home. Enchiladas, chicken-fried ...

Armadillo eggs recipe

Once a year, a reader shoots me an email asking when I’ll be writing about armadillo eggs. At first I said, “Uh, armadillos are mammals—they...