Category: Food
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Cannolis!
Getting good pastries or baked items in Houston is rough. They just don’t bake things down here like they do on the east coast. Luckily, Central Market (a Texas only high-class grocery store) did an “Italia” month and they had a whole bunch of awesome Italian pastries. They weren’t exactly like the kinds you’d get…
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Crawfish Étouffée!
I knew crawfish was a big thing in the gulf. I had no idea that there were so many ways to eat it. Other than straight from the shell my favorite so far has been etoufee. If you’ve never had etoufee, it is kind of like a very thick stew that’s packed with a bunch…
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Easter Eggs!
Lisa loves dying Easter Eggs because it’s one of the few times a year where she can make a mess and it results in something pretty. Seriously, we don’t just put down newspaper. We saran wrap our table and then put down newspaper because she’s a full believer that dying eggs should be done by…
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Alfajores!
Alfajores are light short-bread-like cookies filled with dulce de leche and often topped with sugar or coconut. I had never heard of them until we moved to Houston, which makes sense because apparently they are a big South American dessert. What I found most surprising about them is how soft the cookie parts are. They are…