Food Matters
For Cedar Door bash, it's Mexican martinis all around
By Kitty Crider & Dale RiceMay 25, 2005
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Cedar Door's Original Mexican Martini
In a 16-oz. shaker glass full of ice combine:
1 1/2 oz. Sauza Gold Tequila
1 1/2 oz. Hiram Walker Triple Sec
Finish with freshly squeezed lime juice, a splash of orange juice and sweet and sour.
Shake well and serve in a champagne glass with a salted rim, garnished with three olives on a sword pick and lime wedge. Toast "To the Door!"
Supper club takes the prep work and planning out of making dinner
Super Suppers is a national entree-assembly program new in the Austin metro area. Clients pay a fee here from $199 to $220 for 12 entrees or $109 to $120 for six and show up at reserved times to put together the dish and label it for the freezer. They work from a set menu, moving from station to station, using ingredients prepped by Super Suppers for each of the recipes. Monitors are on hand to assist in measuring and food safety. (Ingredients are not premeasured as in some other assembly programs.) Putting together all 12 dishes takes about two hours. There is some flexibility in menu choice. For instance, if the assembler does not want fish, an extra chicken dish can be subbed. The two locations are 11805 Bee Cave Road (263-0964), supersuppersbeecaves-lakeway.com, and 13343 U.S. 183 N., Suite 250 next to Main Event (257-2910), supersuppersaustinandersonmills.com. Super Suppers franchises are also planned for Bee Cave Road at Walsh Tarlton Lane in late June and the Northwest Hills area in mid-to-late summer.
We might say, 'Oh, thank heaven,' to new sandwiches
The turkey sandwich with havarti cheese on walnut scallion bread with grilled onions and bacon was really good, hearty (9.4 oz.) and only $3.49.
A second sandwich, just like it, was also superb, until tasters got to the last half, which was soggy. Not acceptable. If the makers will fix that problem, we will definitely buy this sophisticated sandwich at 7-Eleven.
(Tasters also liked the turkey/jack sandwich.) The sandwiches, part of new flavors at the convenience store chain, are made in Lewisville, dated and delivered fresh daily.
What's the big deal? 20-feet-long links
It'll take a big pit for this one.
Rudy's Country Store and BBQ will be smoking what the owners say are the longest sausage links ever made in Texas -- 20 feet.
The links -- four times the diameter of a normal sausage, weighing 22 to 24 pounds and made from Rudy's trademark recipe -- will be smoked on July 3 in a custom pit.
The giant links then will be cut up that day for free sausage wraps during an early Fourth of July celebration at the newest Rudy's, which opened last week at RM 620 and Zimmerman Lane. It's the fourth in the Austin area.
New books take the cupcake -- 310 ways
Maybe it's the end-of-school, summer-fun influence hitting the cake plates and bookshelves. Three new cookbooks spotlight cupcakes. The most stylish is "Cupcakes Year-Round," (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, $17.95), 50 recipes from recipe developer Sara Neumeier, presented in flip-chart format. The most creative is "Cupcakes from the Cake Mix Doctor" (Workman, $13.95) by Anne Byrn, whose 135 recipes show mini cakes arranged into purses, wreathes, even flower arrangements. But the most mouth-watering may be "125 Best Cupcake Recipes" (Robert Rose, $18.95) by pastry chef Julie Hasson. Her exotic flavors include margarita, chai, Pimm's, green tea, malted espresso and sticky date, in addition to many traditional ones.
