The Curmudgeon's Guide to Texas Home Cooking and Other Feats
- ISBN-10
- 1973352044
- ISBN-13
- 9781973352044
- Pages
- 198
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-11-23
- Author
- Matthew Hancock
Description
This Cookbook is a comprehensive guide to Texas Home Cooking utilizing tested recipes and techniques described in detail. It will entertain both the novice and advanced cook alike with lots of tips and good ideas. It covers Texas cuisine and culture ranging from country cooking to Tex-Mex dishes and traditional desserts and beverages like Sweet Iced Tea and Fresh Roasted Coffee Beans. A few tall tales and funny stories about the folks who taught the author to cook are woven into the fabric of this compendium of recipes, some generations old. The focus is on scratch cooking utilizing quality local foods and the best ingredients and methods available. The book begins with sections on kitchen hygiene, equipment, food storage, sourcing ingredients and shares a philosophy that shuns the pervasive negative corporate influences on food in Texas. Here you will find good recipes for homemade Meat, Fish, Fowl, Vegetables, Eggs, Bread, Tex-Mex, Desserts and Beverages. Chicken Fried Steak, Frito Chili Pie, Campfire Steak, Prime Rib, Red Eye Gravy, and Enchiladas, it's all here. Perfect gift for that gourmand in your life. This is the Texas cuisine. "What I wanted to do with this book is preserve my cooking knowledge and transmit to the next generation of cooks everything I have learned about scratch home cooking in Texas." -Matthew Hancock
