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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Z’Tejas wants your dessert on the menu
Z’Tejas is looking for a few good recipes.
Dessert recipes to be more specific.
Dessert recipes that use chiles to be exact.
It’s never to early to start looking forward to the chile season, which for the beloved Hatch chile is just around the corner, and Z’Tejas is planning a three-week chile celebration September 2-21.
The restaurant, which has three Central Texas locations, will have a special menu for the three-week Chile Bash, and on that menu could be your very own recipe!
Send your recipes to recipes@ztejas.com and include the following information:
— Number of servings
— List of ingredients and measurements in order of use
— Step-by-step preparation and cooking instructions
— Name, address, phone and e-mail
A portion of the sales from Chile Bash menu will go to the Sustainable Food Center, the nonprofit in charge of the downtown and Triangle farmers’ markets and several programs providing access to food to low-income families.
You have until July 28 to submit a recipe. You’d better get cookin’!
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Tequila time!
To get yourself ready for National Tequila Day (July 24, a week from Thursday) head over to Ranch 616 on Nueces Street in Austin for Tequila Tuesday tonight, where you can get an appetizer, entree, dessert and a tequila drink for $29.95.
I took some friends last week and had a fabulous time enjoying margaritas and some very delicious food, including a blueberry pudding cake that was to die for.
The items on the Tequila Tuesday menu change each week, but the live music is always the same: Lucas Hudgins and the First Cousins rock the Ranch with some awesome honky tonk. Pretty soon, there will be a big ol’ patio on which you can feast outside and enjoy your tequila under the stars.
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How much milk can a food writer drink?
Remember that post last week about why some organic milks last so darn long? Well, I ended up doing a little taste test to see if I could tell the difference between one non-organic and three organic milks.
It wasn’t one of those bets to see who can drink a gallon of milk in an hour, but it sure felt like it when I was done…
Now, about those expiration dates:
H-E-B whole milk — July 22 Promised Land organic — July 25 Horizon organic — July 23 The Omega-3 Horizon — August 12
The Omega-3 milk was the sweetest of the bunch, and it will also last the longest on your refrigerator shelf. I’d say the sweetness is likely linked to the ultrahigh temperature pasteurization.
Also, that White Mountain yogurt I showed at the end is a local product! My neighbor friend Gilbert, who happens to be the dairy buyer for Whole Foods downtown, alerted me to this fact and said that it’s a very popular brand.
Remember: You can still e-mail me at abroyles@statesman.com (or send @broylesa a message on Twitter) with yogurt, cheese or butter tips! I’m working on a column for the end of the month.
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