tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-126064722011-12-14T21:00:22.637-06:00Eric Braun's blog about food and cooking in San Antonio, Texas.Eric Braunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15990210257212905430noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12606472.post-79621461143467585662007-10-10T18:35:00.000-05:002007-10-10T18:53:15.119-05:00

So every Sunday when I'm down at my dad's place on Bastrop Bayou down by Angleton, Texas, we listen to the Cajun Jamboree show on AM 560.It's great, old time-y radio. Amazing that it's on a Clear Channel radio station.Every week they go on and on about all kinds of great Cajun food. They keep talking about crawdad cornbread every week ... too bad Beaumont is so far from Angelton, or I would have

Eric Braunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15990210257212905430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12606472.post-70984813402297295752007-10-08T20:36:00.000-05:002007-10-08T22:39:11.964-05:00

Well, we're back in Texas and I'm no longer with MLive.com. I took a position at MySanAntonio.com, the website of the San Antonio Express News and the KENS TV.I know San Antonio pretty well from my six years in Austin, but I'm just getting around to the smaller places. So far the food has been sort of hit and miss, but I'm learning.I had a great carne guisada tacos from Carmelita's, calabaza y

Eric Braunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15990210257212905430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12606472.post-1136434409393198592006-01-04T21:46:00.000-06:002006-01-05T10:41:03.816-06:00

You'll note by the use of our fine china that we were celebrating our anniversary for this meal. To keep me from spending all night in the kitchen I kept it pretty simple.A spinach salad with some surprisingly nice tomatoes. They were somewhere between a cherry and a small slicer. Topped it off with some sprouts. I made a quick dressing out of canola, red wine vinegar, dry mustard, touch of sugar

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When I first started cooking one of the first things I wanted to try was a thai curry, but the recipes I saw were really complicated and called for making the curry paste yourself so I wrote it off and never went back to it.So, I recently had a terrific curry at Lotus Thai here in Ann Arbor and decided to give it a go again.Who knew it was so easy?This is a great weeknight recipe.1 12 ounce can

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The people of Michigan, for all their bluster about huge amounts of snow and how winter is "snow much fun" don't even make use of the best reason to love snow.Snow ice cream.Growing up in Missouri this was one of the focal points of winter. My mother always made us wait until after the first snow because that cleaned the air out. We still adhere to that rule no matter how silly. Plus, the first

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We took our annual Thanksgiving trip to St. Louis this year, which was filled with the usual Turkey Day foodstuffs. One broadbreasted white, stuffing, cranberry sauce, etc. etc. I performed my only real food-related function of the weekend by disassembling the turkey. I do love the electric knife.A few weeks before we left I started downloading the "Restaurant Guys" podcast. It's a radio show

Eric Braunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15990210257212905430noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12606472.post-1132415302025796682005-11-19T09:15:00.000-06:002005-11-19T09:48:22.656-06:00

Here's a quick and easy Salmon recipe I made a while back, it took all of a half hour.Ingredients2 Salmon filet steaksJuice of 2 tangelos, divided2 TBSP Olive Oil1 clove garlic, crushed1 TBSP butterSaltPepperMarinate the filets in the juice of one tangelo for 15 minutes.In a pan on medium heat add the oil to the pan and cook the filets until the sides of the filet have turned opaque nearly to the

Eric Braunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15990210257212905430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12606472.post-1124406123435147562005-08-18T17:28:00.000-05:002005-08-22T15:26:52.280-05:00

Ever since we got the central air conditioning installed the girls have been demanding that we soon have a pizza night. They had been on hold since spring because the oven is required to be at 500 degrees for this and Michigan has been doing its best impersonation of southern Georgia this year, so we’ve been doing a lot of grilling.The thing with pizza night isn’t really the pizza, it’s that the

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I'm in charge of dinner for a campout this weekend that includes 20 men and boys. I picked up some hot dogs for the non-chili eaters and I'm making a pot of chili to serve up. There's another guy in the group who's making another pot of chili so we'll see how the two compare. This is pretty much my standard operating procedure chili, I typically add various things to it to spice it up. For

Eric Braunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15990210257212905430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12606472.post-1120788943841440212005-07-07T20:49:00.000-05:002005-07-08T07:48:00.036-05:00

Photos by: SavannaThe blackberry harvest continues ...Quick, easy and attractive was the name of the game tonight.No real measurements, this one's all about feel.I had 2 nice, big rainbow trout filets harvested from the holy waters of Michigan's Au Sable River.Actually, it's all catch and release up there, so these are from some trout farm in Canada purchased at the local Meijer's at a cut price.

Eric Braunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15990210257212905430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12606472.post-1120785327648108862005-07-07T19:54:00.000-05:002005-07-07T20:48:16.156-05:00

So, with our new house came a lovely blackberry bush that seems to be putting off a ton of berries. More than we are ever going to eat and the birds and critters don't seem too interested either.My oldest, Savanna, turned 10 this past Sunday and her request for breakfast was pancakes.So, I got up extra-early and picked some blackberries to go in the pancakes. I put on coffee, bacon and warmed up

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On the way out of work tonight I took pause to make obnoxious remarks to my vege co-workers. A little over-compensation for hiring back-to-back vegetarians. So, to cleanse my conscience I made a vegetarian meal tonight. At least what passes for vegetarian around here.I made a pit stop at Trader Joe's on the way home from work the other night and picked up a few items, including the always-popular

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Me at the grill 

Eric Braunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15990210257212905430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12606472.post-1115517981508485702005-05-07T21:02:00.000-05:002005-05-08T18:29:57.533-05:00

Since we went to a burrito-big-as-your-head kind of place (not that there's anything wrong with that) for Cinco de Mayo the other night I decided to try my hand the next night at Tacos al Pastor, to go for some authentic Mexican eats.All in all, the results were mighty fine. I found a basic recipe online that would have made about a gallon of marinade, so i reworked proportions for my needs. I

Eric Braunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15990210257212905430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12606472.post-1115259017218105382005-05-04T20:41:00.000-05:002005-05-05T19:38:39.930-05:00

Because we have a cow's milk allergies in the house, I tend to always be on the lookout for affordable goat and sheep bleu cheeses, and I rarely every find them. However, about a month ago I happened into the Whole Foods in Ann Arbor and came across Bastiaansen Organic Goat Bleu cheese on sale for 8.99 a pound.I let it sit in the refrigerator for a week or two and when I finally got around to

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