Recipes & Stories

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

When you want something fancy, delicious and impressive.  Try this for company.  It’s fun to light food on fire, for real!   Steak au Poivre with Cognac Sauce  4 tenderloin

  I got this recipe from my friend Sarah Fioroni. Her family has a farm sitting high above the village of San Gimigiano, Italy. It's a light and easy cake

  This is a great old fashioned sour cream muffin base that can be used with a multitude of various fruits. It has a light crumble topping that you can

  This roast is so easy and so impressive to present table side!

  These are so simple and so addictive!

  This is my favorite queso recipe, when I'm not in a hurry (think: velveeta). This is from Lisa Fain's Homesick Texan (love!) and it's obviously from the fabulously famous

Enchiladas Banderas

I’m cooking a lot these days, even more than usual.   Trying to stay busy and sharing the love by dropping some dinners at back doors and gates.  Being creative

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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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Miso Banana Bread

Miso Banana Bread Adapted from Food and Wine makes one large loaf or 16 small mini loaves   Miso is a paste made from cooked soybeans.  White Miso is the

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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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