Recipes & Stories

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

Here's another one of my favorite breads to use sour dough starter.

Vanilla Bean Shortbread Makes about 18 cookies 1 cup butter at room temperature 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 vanilla bean,

This is one of my favorite go-to recipes for a quick and delicious dinner. Most of these items should be easily found and substitutes are a good creative outlet.
This is comfort food at it's best. The combination of ground pork and ground beef make this meatloaf very flavorful and moist.
A great basic recipe for a moist tiramisu cake. Use as a layer cake or make into cute little cakettes, as I have done here.
Using a nifty shortcut ingredient--canned biscuits--makes delicious short-order empanadas with any filling you like. This butternut squash, caramelized onion and sage filling is so very falls!

Mini Lemon Cheesecakes

When life gives you lemons….. Funny that these look so much like a sunny side up egg, as anyone who knows me well knows I loathe fried eggs!  I quickly

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Candy Bar Bars

  Since our big Easter Celebration and Hunt didn’t happen this year, I had lots of leftover Easter Candy.  We also make these at Halloween and Christmas with all of

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Carrot Pineapple Cake

Carrot Pineapple Upside Down Cake

This was crazy delicious!  Adapted from Cuisine Magazine, it’s moist, like a carrot cake, gooey like a traditional pineapple upside down cake and it develops a wonderful crunchy-caramel-y edge in

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Strawberry Gelato

Fresh Strawberry Gelato makes about 1 quart   3/4 cup sugar 1 tablespoon cornstarch 1 cup milk 3/4 cup cream 2 1/4 cups sliced and stemmed strawberries 2 tablespoons pomegranate

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Lemon Souffle

  Lemon Soufflés makes 5 2 tablespoons granulated sugar 2 cups lemon curd, divided use 2 tablespoons flour 1/8 teaspoon salt 4 egg whites, room temp 1/8 teaspoon cream of

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Valentine Sugar Cookies

    Valentine’s Day Sugar Cookies!  After my years at the bakery, it just doesn’t feel like a sweet heart day unless I bake some of these wonderful cookies. They

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