Home cooking Recipes

This recipe is inspired by one of my favorites, Gourmand's Beer Cheese Soup, which uses Shiner Bock. Feel free to use whatever you want, then go to Gourmand's to have the real thing.

We first discovered this dish at Arlo Grey in Downtown Austin, and since, it's taken on a life of its own. We've cooked it a number of times and it's slowly evolved (mainly to become easier to cook, if you can believe it). It's one of our favorite vegetarian dishes and can easily swing vegan (just replace the dairy with something like hummus). It's vegetables that eat like a full-on meat lasagna. Dang.

This is another recipe we saw on Jamie Oliver's TV show, and we can't stop making it. It's perfect for parties, and pairs well with any rich dip (we've been doing greek yogurt topped with hot sauce and tahini). We've also rolled things other than carrots, changed the flavors, made news dips— go wild!

This is a party favorite, perfect for a Super Bowl or a game night. It takes a long time, but like most slow cooker recipes, is easy as hell. Bonus: guests love it.

This is my go-to marinade for everything from steaks to shrimp to fajitas to pork. Seriously, if I'm cooking or grilling meat, there's a good chance this is what it's soaking in. It's perfect for "street meat" aka cart or truck, like tacos and wraps and kebabs and skewers and everything in between. Start with this base, add spice or herb as desired.

Cooking a steak in a water bath is the ultimate, both in terms of flavor and laziness. Dial in a precise temperature, then go take a nap.

From a weird Sunday morning when I realized we didn't have bread. Solid hitter. Served with Treehive Syrup, my new favorite breakfast obsession (it's mixed with honey, vanilla, and cinnamon, oof).

This recipe comes from Cody, a childhood neighbor and friend that my brother and I group chat message about food literally every day. Hey Cody! Consider this a starting point. This is totally one of those "starter meats" that you coud add to almost any dish.

Pork is called "the other white meat", but this sous vide technique is so dang good I'm gonna graduate it up to "THE white meat".

A favorite when I go to BBQs (parties, hackathons, your folks' place), this red berry tart is fairly easy to make and packs a huge wow factor.

A lot of places are doing dang good brussels lately, but none can touch Salty Sow. They serve them fried, topped with pecorino and golden raisins. Yes, please. We started trying to emulate it, but it's such a versatile dish, you can make it however you want. Consider this a loose guide.

I love me some okra, but prep is usually enough to avoid making it. This simple dish requires only a single cut per pod and a dash of seasoning- that's it.

Generally, canned carrots are stinky and not worth eating. Butter and cheese changes that.

We found these during Happy Hour at Chiso's Grill in Bee Cave, Tx. We've since tweaked the recipe a bit. This recipe is just a starting point, add/remove anything you want (like more hot sauce if you're into that). Sometimes I order the peppers on Amazon. My favorite hot sauces are Franks Red Hot, Jardine's Texas Champagne, and of course, Yellowbird. Fun fact: Peppedew Peppers are basically a new thing. They are the brand name of piquante peppers, which were discovered in South Africe in just 1993. Hat tip to Wikipedia for the schooling.

An all-time classic, these chicken wings use a two-step cook process that's a) easy to time, and b) makes a TON of wings. The trick is to start on the grill, and finish under a ripping hot broiler. The final wing is smokey, crispy- the best of both worlds! You can also do the first half of the cook (the grill) and then hold the wings at temp in a warm oven until you're ready to eat. Late guests? Got another batch on the grill? It's super easy to float the timing and zap them crispy fresh whenever you're ready. Then sauce and serve, you wing king. When it comes to sauce, our favorite is Yellowbird Strawberry Ginger, but any variety of hot sauce works here. Or just a couple different, just like a wing joint.