Welcome to tsp.
I believe food is a central thing about a place, and it carries so many aspects of our lives—important events, family, history, politics, culture—with it to the table. It has always been a source of pride and creativity for me.
The recipes found here are family favorites and hand-me-downs, new-found old artifacts from South Texas, and stolen goods from around the world. Influences are Tex-Mex, Pennsylvania Dutch, Southern U.S., France, Mexico. I like to know the history of foodways and foods, and see cooking knowledge being passed along as some kind of continuation of a story.
I worked in a bakery once, and a restaurant kitchen, catering kitchen, in a warehouse selling walking sticks and camera tripods, as as a teacher in an inner city public high school. I don’t do any of those things now.
I take all the pictures here, with a Nikon D3000.
Leave me comments and I will read them.
4 Comments
Post a commentSeems a pleasant diversion, nice and low key.
Great stuff Mady.
Hi Merideth,
Christmas Eve tomorrow here. We are not cooking the traditional. We never do. On Christmas Day, we will cook roast rib of beef, Yorkshire puddings, potatoes and roast winter vegetables. We will have smoked salmon and home made brown bread to start. A meringue cake with raspberries to finish. There will be no photos or posts. It is a family time. Wishing you a happy Christmas and all the best in 2011.
Conor
Conor,
I hope it was a delicious meal! Thanks for the Christmas message. We tried to be a little traditional this year, with tamales, but the renovations prevented a sit down meal. We will have to have a family meal when the kitchen is expanded and make up for the lack of festivities. The Christmas day meal you planned sounds mouth watering.