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Food Truck Day

Today is food truck day! Our goal: to have all of our meals at Austin food trucks around the city. Food truck culture is well ensconced here and there are a large number of choices available to hungry meal seekers. Every type of food is represented, across enthnicities, styles, and trends, for breakfast, lunch and dinner and from the basic to the hautest of...
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Roast Chicken with Thai Spices

I was menu planning for the week ahead on Friday and was inspired to create this dish by one of the plump, juicy local chickens from Winfield farms that I had in my freezer. Roast chicken of any kind is comfort food on a blustery winter day. I love the warm, spicy flavours prevalent in Thai cuisine and felt they would compliment a chicken nicely. Rob suggested making a yellow curry sauce and so...
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Oh, the shame! …not.

Butter chicken is one of the most amazing dishes known to humanity: creamy, sweet, buttery. The token description on most Indian takeout menus – “chicken in a creamy tomato curry sauce” does not do it justice at all. Butter chicken needs a new PR campaign. I made butter chicken from scratch once, using my mom’s Better Butter Chicken recipe. This is a “healthy” version of butter...
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Sharon’s Jamaican Curry

I have tried my hand many times at rich, sweet, coconut milk based Thai curries and spice laden Indian curries. Tonight I am trying my hand at Jamaican curry with a family recipe kindly supplied by Sharon Kameka, my daughter Heather’s boyfriend’s mother. They need to find a better term for that relationship. Heather raves about this recipe and her SO Matt makes it frequently....
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Thai Beef Curry

This is a quick curry for a weekday. You can add whatever ingredients you like. I add canned pineapple chunks and the juice of a whole lime. Green onions too if I have them on hand. Bamboo, canned mushrooms or water chestnuts could also be added. I’m unsure of where the original inspiration came from for this recipe, so I can’t credit it, but I’ve changed it up...
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