Let’s start with Killeen. I enlisted Don to do some research for me while he was in Killeen. The restaurant / cafeteria in Seton Hospital is supposed to have a great chef. Since Don was working in Killeen, I thought it might be a good time to check it out. He was pretty impressed, even…
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October Events
Happy Fall from Bird Song Lavender Farm! The Lavender Festival will be held on October 6th (Saturday) from 9 am to 4 pm and on October 7th (Sunday) 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. Click here for their location and phone number. The dates are from the spring festival, but there’s a good map. There will be…
And Everything Nice, Except Texas Rice
You can mark eating Texas rice off your “eating local” grocery list. If you didn’t see the story on TV, consumer reports has a new study showing the rice from Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, and Texas (about 76% of domestic rice) show significant levels of arsenic. In Texas and Louisiana, rice is grown in fields where…
Meet, Eat, and Art
Saturday was very close to a perfect day, great weather, great company, and fun places to go. We started out at the Waco Downtown Farmers Market. I got some grape tomatoes, gorgeous eggplant, more country pork ribs (pastured pork, and they’re always good), dog bones, non-GMO blue cornmeal, beef fat, and Caprino Royale feta. Caprino…
Panama As We Picture It
It’s not that there weren’t things that went wrong while we were in Panama, like losing one of my favorite earrings, the one hour ride on a road so bad I’m sure my internal organs are rearranged, or the scrape across the bumper of the rent car that happened while it was parked, but this…