Valley Bounty: Pickles

Pickles Pickles provide a refreshing counterpoint to warm winter foods, and they’re easy to make — this time of year, possible ingredients include radishes, turnips, onions, carrots or cabbage. Quick vinegar pickles can be ready to eat in a few hours. Try them out by thinly slicing a red onion and covering with lime juice. […]

New Braunfels Business-Education Partnership Career & College Fair Planning Underway

Chris Snider, newly appointed Chair of the Business-Education Partnership Committee, will preside at the committee’s first meeting of 2016, in Honors Hall at 7:30 a.m. on Thursday, January 21. The committee will review the programs the BEP currently sponsors and work on plans for the 3rd Annual Career & College Fair on March 8. The […]

Scarlet Pearl’s Under the Oak Café gets it right 24-7

BY JULIAN BRUNT   –   Special to the Sun Herald D’IBERVILLE — If you are playing a slot machine at the newly opened Scarlet Pearl Casino and hunger strikes, there is just one place to go: Under the Oak Café. It is on the casino floor, and you will never be out of earshot of […]

YOU LIKE THIS: FEATURING CHEF RICHARD GRAFF OF MEDDLESOME MOTH AND BEER PICKLES

BY ALICE LAUSSADE   –   Dallasobserver.com Welcome to “You Like This,” in which we ask chefs two questions: 1) What’s the best-selling dish at your restaurant? and 2) What’s your favorite dish at your restaurant? We hope the answer to the first question will open your eyes to the fan favorites and the Dallas palate […]

Fermented Foods: Turning excess into product

By Josh Brokaw   –   Ithaca.com Steps for creating a culture: First, place vegetables, fruit, or other live material in a bucket or barrel. Second, add water, maybe some salt. Wait for life to bubble up. If the life created isn’t one to your taste, change the climate by a few degrees. Adjust until […]