Recipes & Stories

Discover Sibby’s favorite recipes, stories, and Hill Country finds—where food, culture, and life intersect.

There's no doubt about it, this one is for special occasions! We made this in our "Holiday Company Dinner" class recently and it's a show stopper.
Everybody has flour, salt and yeast at home, right?! Well, now's the time to make sure you do. Even though this bread is a two day event, it is super
Does everyone have yeast, flour, salt, olive oil and honey in the house? Ok, if not, get that in your next shopping run. These are easy pantry essentials that will
I'm always looking for ways to cook fish that are enticing and yummy. This is a good one and any fish will do.
More comfort food to share. There are lots of "or's" in this recipe, so use what you have on hand to customize. This one is great without the meat, just
I found this recipe in the Dallas Morning News many years ago and I'm not sure of the origin beyond that but I've tinkered with it a bit over the
Fall Squashes

Sweet Potato Biscuits

These sweet biscuits can be made with leftover sweet potato puree or pumpkin puree. They are great for breakfast, brunch or dessert. I sometimes split them and make little ham

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Mixed Berry Scone Cobbler

I found this recipe in a new cookbook I bought called “Holy Sweet”, by Peabody Johanson. She has a wonderful blog, sweetrecipeas.com, which she calls, ‘evil recipes from a nice

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Pound Cake with Berries

Pound Cake

Thoughts on Pound Cake… Pound cake, for me, is one of the best classic examples of old school Southern baking.  Although its earliest written history goes back to European roots,

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