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IF LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS, BE HAPPY FOR WHAT YOU’VE GOT. INGRATE

It’s been hot. Really hot. Record shattering, make you mad hot. I guess that’s what one should expect during a Texas summer, but this year feels a little extreme. Like, dustbowl hot. Because of this, my mind has turned to cooling refreshment more and more. And while cooling refreshment can easily be a synonym for ...

SUMMER’S BEST DESSERT: GRILLED FARMSTAND PEACHES

There are certain flavors that seem to live within summer air. Certain things that on a good day, away from any landfills or traffic, you can almost taste on the breeze. For me, peaches have always been one of them.  To bite into a ripe peach at its peak is to taste the memory of the best summer you ever had: Hitting rope ...

AN ENDORSEMENT: POT ROAST

It’s hard to beat a good pot roast: its 100% pure unsexiness, its unapologetic brownness, the fact that as a dish it’s basically an exercise in the textural submission of its ingredients. Even the name “Pot Roast” is so perfectly unassuming it sounds like something brown and unglamorous. And that is its ...

AN INTRODUCTION

Alright, so this whole thing is a little new to me. Personally, I dislike the Internet and its inherent intrusions into privacy, I hate journaling and I find a lot of what people post to the internet kind of self-indulgent and irritating. So naturally I decided it was time to start posting things on the internet, thereby ...