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

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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Zucchini Oat Nut Bread

Sometimes we have too much zucchini.  It happens.  Do this.  These little loaves make a simple and homey ending to a meal or a sweet beginning to the day with

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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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