If it weren’t for the brown butter sauce, this dish would be extremely healthy but pretty bland and tasteless and that butter just takes it to the next level. It’s a great way to use up vegetables if you buy too many at the store or farmer’s market (like I did) and is delicious as a leftover as well.

Adapted from Potatoes, Green Beans, and Corn in Lemon Brown Butter Sauce
The Kitchn ♦ July 2010
Serves 4-6 as a side dish
Ingredients
1 pound sweet potatoes, cleaned and cut into bite-sized chunks
1 pound green …

Sometimes I go to the grocery store, buy a bunch of vegetables, and only when I get home do I look for recipe ideas to figure out what to do with them.
I do not recommend this meal planning strategy. Usually what happens is I find recipes that include most of the ingredients, but it’s difficult to find a recipe where I have everything at home.
This Curried Cauliflower Stew was a rare success story. I love that it’s vegetarian and that the flavors keep melding together so that the dish tastes …

There’s a handful of “underground” supper clubs around Austin, including Supper Underground, Dai Due, and Hosteria Verde. For one reason or another, I had never visited any of them until my friends’ Laura and Mike invited me to join them for a Supper Friends dinner to sample their wedding menu.
Supper Friends is held at Swoop House, located at 3012 Gonzales in East Austin. Here it is:
And these are the Strokes — as they are affectionately nicknamed due to a combination of their last names — Laura and Mike — who …

Just a quick post to let you know that you can get your frito pie on today for FREE from 5 – 6 p.m. at Jo’s Coffee on S. Congress.
One hour only. Today only.
I enjoyed the Venison Chili Frito Pie from Ranch 616 (served in a frito pie snack bag!) at the Austin Film Festival’s Film & Food Fundraising event last week and it was my favorite dish of the night. So tasty!
Here’s a quick and dirty picture from my iPhone.
The frito pie they are serving at Jo’s today will be …

I think of Dallas as a chain restaurant kind of town. My firm has an office downtown and like many business districts, the only coffee shops around are places like Starbucks.
On a recent business trip, I asked my cab driver to stop off at The Pearl Cup, a newish coffee shop in Dallas off Henderson Avenue, opened by two women who moved to Dallas a few years back from Austin.

Turns out that Messay, my cab driver, is a coffee addict too. However, he’s a big Starbucks fan. He likes the darkest roast …