Note: If you’re pressed for time or refrigerator space, you can simplify this dessert by eliminating the fresh cranberry sauce and crumb topping; it will still be delicious. Everything may be prepared a day or more ahead and assembled at the last minute. You will need 6 eight-ounce ramekins.Filo Tart
1 tablespoon butter (for greasing pan)2 large garlic cloves, peeled and cut in half (for rubbing pan)2 large Yukon gold potatoes, peeled2 medium sweet potatoes, peeledsalt and pepper to taste1 three-inch piece ginger, mincedapproximately 2 cups whipping creamNote: This dish may be prepared a day ahead. You will need two
1/2 cup chopped pecans or 6 unshelled chestnuts 24 brussels sprouts, stems removed, soaked in lightly salted water for 10 minutes 2 ounces (3 thick slices) apple-smoked bacon, cut in 1/2-inch squares 1 large red onion, thinly sliced and slices halved 1/8 cup turbinado sugar (such as Sugar in the
Comino Honey Glazed Hens1 cup honey1/2 teaspoon ground cumin (comino)dash liquid smoke flavoring (optional)1 stick cinnamon6 Cornish hens, rinsed and dried1 tablespoon cornbread crumbs or finely ground corn tortillas (optional)Note: The glaze must be prepared a day ahead. The hens should be cooked and served the same day.To make glaze,
1 small jicama, peeled and julienned 1 chayote, destemmed, peeled, and julienned 1 small red bell pepper, destemmed, cored, and julienned 1 Granny Smith apple, cored (but not peeled) and julienned 1 clementine or satsuma, sectioned (a tangerine, tangelo, or canned mandarin orange sections may be substituted); reserve juice approximately
Goat Cheese-Plantain Empanadas3 ripe plantains, unpeeled 1 ripe banana, unpeeled 1 small white onion, sliced and slices halved 1 tablespoon butter 8 ounces Texas or other fresh goat cheese 1 cup flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup vegetable oil (not olive oil)Note: The empanadas may be prepared ahead. Put them
4 ounces chorizo, removed from casing, or in bulk 2 tablespoons butter (cut 1 tablespoon into 6 chunks) 1 cup destemmed, torn or roughly cut Swiss chard 1 cup heavy cream 1/2 cup milk 1 quart shucked oysters and their liquor salt and pepper to tasteNote: The chorizo may
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In one sense this earthy first novel by Austinite Christopher Cook is a feel-good book: Compared with the title characters, you can’t help but feel good about your own relatively decent self. In Robbers two aimless outlaws, Ray Bob and Eddie, hook up and, in a sort of quien-es-mas-macho contest,
It’s the voice that strikes you first: deep, lugubrious, slightly warbly. Second it’s the songs, the result of years of craning an ear toward the works of writers like Bob Dylan and Townes Van Zandt. Yet Damon Bramblett’s music was first heard by most listeners when Kelly Willis covered “Heaven
Three ways to fix the prison system.
Critics aren’t supposed to review albums by their friends, but I can’t help it: Let me tell you about my longtime lunch-mate from Dripping Springs, Cornell. His ten-piece honky-tonk swing band, which specializes in jump and shuffles, is as tight as the Bush family on Election Night while boasting brilliant
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At its inception in the early eighties, the heart and soul of La Mafia, the most enduring group in tejano, was los hermanos Gonzales: Oscar y Leonard. The former was the singer, the latter the guitarista. But by the time they hit their stride in the mid-nineties with “Un Million
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Whose picture did Sam Rayburn always hang in his office?
Kim Dawson
The Dallas Mavericks have a new owner and a new attitude, but they have no real plan to make themselves the kings of the court. I do.
The state’s nerd shortage
The Texas stock to buy right now.
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It was a modern-day horror story: a little girl hidden away in rat-infested squalor for most of her life. When the authorities took her away from her mother and grandmother, the nine-year-old had never been to school or played outside.
His election was historic for many reasons, not least because he embodies the stifled hopes of generations of his countrymen. Still, the obstacles he faces when he assumes the presidency on December 1 are considerable. Will he be able to deliver?
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Ten tunes by Texas artists to jingle your bells.
Heidi Grant Murphy hits a high note.
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Associate editor Michael Hall tells the story behind this month's cover story, "Viva Fort Hood."
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Three hot ad agencies receive top billing.
Turn Out the Lights (University of Texas Press), a collection of articles by Gary Cartwright, arrives in stores this month. Cartwright, a senior editor at Texas Monthly, has written for the magazine since its first issue, February 1973.
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Judging abortion rights.
