Category: Texas products

Fried Oysters

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Fried Oysters I have recently became friends with oysters. Our relationship was rocky, from the… Read more

Grapefruit Margarita

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Grapefruit Margarita   Happy Friday!  I am excited to share with you a new margarita.  Grapefruit! Bursting… Read more

Sweet Life Presents Texas Talent ~ Carl de Kock from Rio Queen~ Mission, Texas

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Happy Monday, we are up and running again.  The cold weather gifted the Rio Grande Valley  almost… Read more

Grapefruit Upside-Down Cake

  It’s cold here in Texas, really cold.. we are currently at 26 degrees.. I’m… Read more

Sweet Life Presents Texas Talent ~ Terry Stuart from Crest Fruit Inc ~ Mission, Texas ~ Grapefruit Buttermilk Sherbet (Giveaway!)

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  Last week I had the pleasure to chat at length with Terry Stuart from… Read more

Texas Sugar Cookies

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Santa’s almost here and I of course am behind. Daily I have been reminded of the… Read more

Fresh Apple Cake

    One of the many perks of living temporarily here in Edinburg, Texas is… Read more

Melon con Crema de Mango

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  Melons, Melons, Melons seems  the only remedy to the Texas heat.  We have juiced… Read more

 

Melons, Melons, Melons seems  the only remedy to the Texas heat.  We have juiced them, sliced them, made them into salad, had them for breakfast and continue to crave them.  This is the time to get in that last taste of summer juiciness, rejoice in the quenching sensation hoping to  tame this unbearable humidity. Texas plays by it’s own rules and August has brought us some intense heat that makes us look forward to cooler temps and lighter meals.  Some mornings a light breakfast is all that seems appetizing. The thought of  spending the day feeling trapped in a oven like atmosphere vehicle mixed with the traffic of back to school business easily makes me almost cry.  We reside on one of the two main streets that directly connects to the University and throw in to location several public schools I almost want to skip breakfast all together and drown any future plans of actually completing my errands with gallons of iced coffee spiked with espresso shots.  But being the level headed mother I am, really I am.  I push aside my fears to make a simple refreshing breakfast which can be made even easier if all is made the night before,  see I told you I was level headed.  (more…)