A soul food of black-eyed peas and rice called Hoppin’ John is eaten by some here in the U.S. as New Year’s Eve custom—it is believed that black-eyed peas are lucky.
Category: Food & Dining
Nice Ice
Sno cone stands are like robins; they herald the arrival of spring.
They start showing up around April, and then, as September wanes, they disappear, gone until next season.
Homemade Ice Cream
Not all ice cream is created equal. For store bought varieties there are two industry standards. The first factor is the level of butterfat in the mix.
Of Kings and Ice Creams
Unknown to most of us there is a great debate rising over the true lineage of the frozen treat we casually call ice cream. It’s not a recent debate—it’s been going on for about 400 years—more or less. Without going into all of the myths and legends, it’s easier to just talk about the things we know to be true based on written history.
Lunch on the Lake
What better way to pass a rainy afternoon than with good friends and good food? Chef Cathy Zeis did the cooking for a leisurely lunch at the Jack Radke Family’s dockominium on Lake Texoma.
The Guest List: (L-R) Lisanne Anderson, Cheryl Plauché, Nancy Anderson, Vickie White, Heather Adams, Mary Kolb.
Lupe’s Tamales
Think Wall Street. Very good. What comes to mind? Bears, bulls, stock exchange, high finance, tamales—Whoa! One moment please. What have tamales got to do with Wall Street? Well, it’s all about location. If you are thinking about the Wall Street in the Big Apple, all of those money references are a natural, but if it’s Wall Street in Sherman, then tamales take center stage—Lupe’s World Famous Tamales to be precise.
Devolli’s Italian Restaurant
It’s small for a restaurant kitchen. The four-burner commercial range sits between a sink and a waist-high cooler, which in turn rubs against a multi-level baking oven and warmer. On the weekends, when Devolli’s Italian Restaurant is jumping with customers waiting for dinner, Frank Devolli and his assistant have to watch out, lest they collide somewhere around the tall pot of red tomato sauce that usually sits on the corner of the range.
Rare Hamburger
The most recent book to praise the hamburger, “Hamburger Heaven: The Illustrated History of the Hamburger,” by Jeffrey Tennyson, hamburger is the “hands-down all-time favorite food.” “Lauded for its convenience and versatility as either snack or entree and labeled as both a cultural icon and a cliche, the hamburger—this omnipresent beef-between-bun creation— is a meaty, multifaceted phenomenon,” Tennyson wrote.
Finding King Catfish
We took a vote here at the Texoma Living! editorial office and the majority agreed that in Texoma, eating is a major social event. It’s not just the fact that at the time we were eating cold, two-day-old Hawaiian-style pizza at 3:00 a.m. while working on this section of the magazine.