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Friday, June 4, 2010
Food blogger, record label owner Emily Gross: What’s in Your Fridge Friday?
Emily Gross is as obsessed with music as she is food.
Gross, who owns the Austin record label Artifact Workshop with her husband, John, mixes the two in her very cool food blog, Gnocchi No Plan.
Whether she’s writing about cooking, gardening or eating egg sandwiches and tater tots, Gross includes a song and lyrics with each blog post.
As if her food blog isn’t fun enough, the musicians she and John work with are pretty cool, too. They make this video to go with a CD release party for a local artist named Neilyo, who is playing a gig on Sunday at the Mohawk.
What three things are always in your fridge? leftovers for the next day’s lunch, good beer, and ketchup
What’s your favorite condiment? TexaFrance pesto! We put it on everything…grilled cheese, rice, breakfast tacos…you name it.
If you could only eat one vegetable for the rest of your life, what would it be? This is a tricky one. We’re both vegetarian and really love our vegetables. But let’s go with garlic! It’s the perfect food, and it would be hard to cook anything without it.
Photo by Emily Gross.
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Pick your own blueberries just east of Austin
Starting Saturday, Chickamaw Organic Farm in McDade will be open for pick-your-own blueberries.
Most of the pick-your-own blueberry farms in Texas are in the east/northeast part of the state, so to have a place less than an hour from Austin is pretty exciting for a Missouri girl like myself who stained her fingers blue picking blueberries and blackberries every June.
Pick-your-own berries (certified organic and biodynamically grown) at Chickamaw are $6 a pint, and you can only pick on the weekends. Call (512) 567-3456 if you have questions.
Directions: Go eight miles past Elgin on 290 to the little community of McDade. Look for a blinking light and turn right onto FM 2336, aka Swiftex Road. Continue approximately 2 miles or so and turn left onto Oak Hill Cemetery Road. Follow road exactly 2.1 miles (mark your odometer) to the Chickamaw gate on left hand side of the road.
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BBQ, beer and a book signing with Robb Walsh on Sunday
Houston food writer Robb Walsh will be in Austin on Sunday for a book signing party at Franklin Barbecue.
The former Austin Chronicle restaurant critic’s new book “The Tex-Mex Grill & Backyard Barbacoa Cookbook” isn’t for barbecue wannabes. Walsh’s new book follows the pattern he’s set with previous Tex-Mex and cowboy books by including recipes as authentic as the taco truck owners and pitmasters he profiles in it.
(Want to know what’s in his fridge? In early 2009, just before a book signing event in Austin for “Sex, Death & Oysters,” it was stocked with, you guessed it, oysters.)
The party at Franklin Barbecue, just south of Fiesta on the northbound I-35 frontage road, on Sunday starts at noon and will feature barbecue, beer and, of course, Walsh signing copies of his book.
Photo from Robb Walsh.
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