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The Best Summer Ever™ of Austin

A few years ago, my cousin Kelly put together a list of summer events which she called the Best Summer Ever. This list was optimized for Minneapolis, but it got me thinking that there ought to be a list for Austin. After the summer we had last year, we need a palate-cleanser summer, a summer

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Green Grape Custard Pie

Let’s try another version of the green grape mustang pie! This is essentially the rhubarb pie recipe you’ll see up north, but with the green grapes substituted for the aforementioned sour stems. I like this recipe in a different way than I like the other green grape pie recipe. Because the fruit is baked in

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Green Mustang Grape Pie

Since I sometimes get requests for this pie recipe, I thought I would publish it for the world here. This is a selection from a guidebook in progress called “Central Texas Urban Foraging” which I’ve been writing with Kim Hill of KimCovers512.com. Of all the pies we’ve made, this one has the most enthusiastic fan

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Taxes Procrastination

I’ve had the folder with all my tax documentation sitting on my desk for months now. I had intended to do them early in January (I’m the guy who hands out the W-2s at my job, so everybody got them about a week into the new year), but when I went to the IRS website

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