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OUR LATEST RECIPES
School is back in session. Sundays are filled with church and football; it’s still a little hot outside and you aren’t quite ready to spend hours in the kitchen, so go easy with these one skillet meals. They are easy to make and are delicious, so impress your family...
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Sourdough Journal
Easy-to-make popovers make a great breakfast treat. After several months all those sourdough starters out there should be entering their prime, as it just gets better with age. Hopefully for most folks out there it’s been a lesson in patience. For a lot of foods,...
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Easy Sandwiches
The kids are going back to school, but summer isn’t over yet, so enjoy some delicious sandwiches for supper. Here it is August, and for those with children, it’s back-to-school time. It’s hard to believe summer is nearing its end, but the days are getting shorter. The...
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Sourdough Journal
Continue the journey of great recipes as the starter begins to take on an aged quality. Ts is the third installment of the Sourdough Journal and after three months of eating a lot of sourdough we have yet to get tired of it. Since we began the process, Saturdays have...
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TRAVEL + LEISURE
A man’s home is his castle
Bellville baker turns dreams into reality Mike Newman bestows knighthood upon a cadre of youngsters before allowing them to enter his realm – his castle where he reigns as king. His castle is not just figurative, Mike Newman actually built a castle in the rolling...
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Remembering Columbia
On the first day of February 2003 tragedy fell from the skies across East Texas when the space shuttle Columbia came apart after its heat shield over its left wing failed due to damage suffered during the launch 16 days earlier. A nation watched in stunned horror, as...
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First Sight of Texas
For more than 300 years Hemphill and Sabine County served as the overland gateway into the vast expanses of the Lone Star State. Back in the days when Texas was nothing more than a vast empty wilderness on the northern frontier of Spanish territory in the New World,...
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New life for old dance halls
Austin County hosting “Remember When” Community Dances Out with the new and in with the old These country dance halls have stories to be told, The same songs will be sung And the old will again be young, Many miles have been danced already And the beat is still strong...
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Bellville Icon
Community works to restore legendary Turnverein Sitting atop a hill overlooking the Central Texas town of Bellville, Turnverein Pavilion has been a local landmark since the end of the 19th century. It served the needs of the German settlers of the area who needed a...
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NINETY YEARS OF SWEET
Jefferson’s Blackburn’s Syrup has become a staple on breakfast tables across the south. The family-owned company thrives after a chance encounter in the 1920s began a Texas tradition. A chance encounter more than 90 years ago helped begin a legendary Texas business....
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