Homesick Texan
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Homesick Texan is a home cooking blog by seventh-generation Texan Lisa Fain dedicated to celebrating Texan home cooking through stories and recipes. When she's not cooking chicken-fried steak, enchiladas, or biscuits in her kitchen, you will find her researching heritage Texas recipes, such as a Texas chili, chile con queso, mustard potato salad, and kolaches.
Homesick Texan
6d ago
In a novel I was recently reading, a character had friends over for dinner. While she cooked she offered her guests bacon rosemary spiced pecans. Her guests loved the smoky,...
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Homesick Texan
1w ago
My eldest nephew Austin recently became a high school student. Since he’s been old enough to stand on a chair, he’s been helping his parents in the kitchen. These days,...
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Homesick Texan
1w ago
Many years ago when I wrote about asado, a West Texas stewed pork and red chile dish, I heard from a linguist based in El Paso. He said that grammatically...
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Homesick Texan
3w ago
The other day, I saw on a Dallas food forum a request for places that serve champurrado. This is a Mexican beverage that combines hot Mexican chocolate with masa harina...
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Homesick Texan
1M ago
The first time I heard of a Tex-Italian tortellini dish, it was referenced on a restaurant menu that has a reputation for this type of fusion. It’s in Lubbock, and...
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Homesick Texan
2M ago
“How can you eat that so early in the morning?” asked my friend. She gestured with a fork at the plate in front of me, which contained a softball-sized muffin...
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Homesick Texan
2M ago
For the past few years, I’ve been drawn to creating a dish using chicken and yellow squash. In several of my South Texas community cookbooks, this dish appears in several...
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Homesick Texan
3M ago
A few years ago when I was at a bookstore in West Texas, I met a longtime reader. She asked me what my plans were, and I admitted that for...
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Homesick Texan
3M ago
If you were to come to my house, you’d find in my refrigerator a pot of pinto beans, a stack of flour tortillas, a jar of pickled jalapeños with carrots,...
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Homesick Texan
4M ago
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