Alamo Event: Mushrooms

The Alamo has cooked up another special movie night. This one has a mushroom theme and music by the Flaming Lips: Food event coming for your food event-worthy consideration!  Alamo Ritz executive chef Trish Eichelberger has prepared an incredible three-course feast with wine parings to be served during a screening of Ron Mann’s SXSW-jamming documentary […]

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Supplies At Hand

Get out there and harvest all your tomatoes and basil in the garden before the heat puts the hurt on (if it hasn’t all ready). I made this Summer Pesto Appetizer with my garden ingredients. Hollowed out tomatoes, mozzarella, and pesto. Bonus: didn’t have to turn on a burner to do it.

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Local Dressing: Tuna Salad

Seared Tuna Salad: bib lettuce, red onion, big eye tuna, caramelized yellow onion, Sass Sesame and Garlic salad dressing and a drizzle of ginger tamarind sauce. Sass is a local salad dressing company, started in 1986 by twin sisters Carol and Lauri Raymond. Apparently, the name stands for Season All Stuff Sauce (I guess that […]

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Pasta Putanesca

Pasta Putanesca: olive oil, crushed garlic, red pepper flakes, tomatoes, capers, artichoke hearts and Parmesan. Great, quick pasta dish that my wife perfected. Good for summer; doesn’t get your kitchen too hot. Good for your budget; doesn’t cost that much. Good for your taste buds, it rocks your palate.

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