A toast to grilling: orange honey butter glazed French toast. Photo from Metro Creative
Grillmasters insist that just about everything tastes a little better when cooked over a flame. Even though grilling often is reserved for lunch or dinner, there’s something to be said about preparing breakfast on those hot grates as well.
Rainbow Rhythm King of the Ages new for 2021, is 38-inches tall and will make your cottage garden come alive.
Rainbow Rhythm Sound of My Heart thrills with sheer elegance and a mystifying beauty.
Left, Rainbow Rhythm Lake of Fire is new for 2021 and was the first daylily to bloom at The Garden Guy’s house in May. Above, the Secret Garden with a newly added rocks creating the image of a dry creek. Photos by Norman Winter
As strange as it sounds, my secret garden is a daylily garden. It started a couple of years ago when Mrs. Jan said the side of our house was an embarrassment, and we needed plants. To be honest it was rather a sort of Garden Guy Gully.
Above, Rollin' Bowl's Red Curry, which came with chicken, onion, bell pepper, bamboo, basil and broccoli. Daily Record photo by Lance Winter
Rollin' Bowl is an Asian fusion restaurant that specializes in Sushi, Vietnamese, Thai and Chinese foods.
But have you ever wondered where food fusion comes from?
The popular Hawaiian fast casual concept, Hawaiian Bros, will open its second restaurant in Texas on Tuesday, June 8 at 1439 North Interstate 35 in San Marcos. Photo courtesy of Hawaiian Bros
The popular Hawaiian fast casual concept, Hawaiian Bros, will open its second restaurant in Texas, according to a press release.
Photo courtesy of the San Marcos Area Chamber of Commerce
This spring, the Chambers in Hays County and the Greater San Marcos Partnership teamed up to provide resources to our businesses as they reopen and plan for the future.
M. Ray Perryman
The recent legislative session will not soon be forgotten. The focus was perpetually on anything but initiatives required to move Texas forward.
Pyromania Backdraft torch lilies lead the eye to the staggered aqua blue mixed containers. Photo by Norman Winter
Sitting on the couch sometime last winter with my trusty perennial catalogue in hand, I gawked over the Pyromania red hot pokers or torch lilies. When they arrived and were sitting in the driveway, I told Mrs. Jan they had such a beautiful texture I would want them even if they never bloomed. That night, looking at the catalogue, I selected Pyromania Backdraft and Pyromania Orange Blaze, two of the six varieties in the series that gives you choices in yellow, orange and red shades. In my two previous experiences
Okra fries: an excellent side dish for burgers this summer. Photo from Metro Creative
Country cooking elicits visions of straight-from-the-garden vegetables and farm-fresh meats and dairy. For those in the United States, country cooking and Southern cooking may be thought of as interchangeable, as so many homespun meals are made that much more delicious with some southern influence.
Today’s column is just a little different. This is only because I couldn’t find enough information in any of my normal sources to do a normal column. What I did find was a number of headline-type sentences which I found interesting, although they had no further details. Hope you find some interest in them, too. These items are shown in no particular order, but just as I found them.
My journey this week takes me back to a memory of a mother’s love that has forever stuck in my heart. I witnessed this on a Memorial Day over 50 years ago at the Fort Bliss National Cemetery in El Paso. I saw a mother on her knees, leaning over a military grave marker with her arms clasping the cold stone for support. I saw a literal puddle of tears on the red dirt below the marker from her weeping so hard — her son was dead. Memories…
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