TexasGrands Blueberry Pecan Cake
Blueberry pecan box cake
This is no lightwiight. Eight inch cake with four pounds of blueberries and pecans.
This cake was baked the old fashioned way in a wooden cake box we manufacture.
Texas Ranger Are Texas Best 2011
To get in the mood for tonight’s 7th game of the 2011 World Series watch this short video of Nolan Ryan’s 7th No Hitter as a Texas Ranger pitcher. Gives me chills, how about you?
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=3345254
Good Luck tonight Texas, We will be watching.
Texas Best Pecan Apple Pie Cake
Texas Pecan Apple Pie Cake
8 cups pecans
6 apples
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
½ tsp salt
4 eggs
½ cup sugar
½ cup honey
DIRECTIONS
APPLES
Apples, peeled, cored and sliced into 16ths
2 T. unsalted butter, melted
1/2 c. brown sugar
1 1/4 t. ground cinnamon
Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
Place apples, butter, sugar and cinnamon into a mixing bowl and toss well to coat. Place coated apples in a shallow oven-proof baking dish and cover tightly with foil. Place dish on middle rack in oven and bake 20 minutes. Remove from oven, carefully remove foil and stir gently to recoat apples with sauce.
CAKE
Sift flower, baking powder and salt over fruit. Coat fruit well.
Set aside
- Beat eggs until foamy, slowly add sugar. Add honey.
- Mix everything together until well coated with batter.
- Pack into pan
- Decorate top with pecans.
- Bake at 275F for 1 ¼ hours
- Let cool 5 minutes, brush top with honey.
jalapeño
Jalapeno
Todays harvest were a few jalapeno peppers.
Grasshoppers are our bumper crop this year.
You can walk out through the pasture and a wave of grasshoppers flows in front of you. I have a sweet potato in the flower bed and the grasshoppers ate the peel off of it. If you try to shoo them off, they show their teeth and growl.
Other produce harvested so far this year includes red potatoes, yellow squash and tomatoes.
Fall of the Alamo, 175 Years Ago Today, Remember the Alamo
Fall of the Alamo, 175 Years Ago Today
March 6, 1836 was the culmination of events that resulted in the battle cry “Remember the Alamo”.
This battle cry provided the passion and adrenalin for the troops to win Texas Independence.
Many movies have been made the best of which starred John Wayne as Davey Crockett.
An account of the fall of the Alamo was written by Captain R.M. Potter who lived near the Alamo. The account along with input from Juan Seguin was published in the San Antonio Herald in 1860.
See the full article here: http://www.nationalcenter.org/Alamo.html
Remember the Alamo
Travis Draws the Original “Line in The Sand”
Travis knew by March third that the situation at the Alamo was hopeless.
Sometime between the third and fourth he used his sword to draw a line in the sand. In a passionate speech Travis told the Alamo occupants the situation was hopeless and they should decide how they would die. He challenged all those who would fight to the death to cross the line in the sand.
“We must die. Our business is not to make a fruitless effort to save our lives, but to choose the manner of our death.”
All but Moses Rose crossed the line. Rose snuck through the enemy lines the night of March fifth.
Texas-Best BBQ Restaurant
Kreuz Market
619 N. Colorado St.
Lockhart, Texas 78644
512-398-2361
Beef or pork on butcher paper, no plates, no trays no forks and no sauce, in the purist Texas tradition.
1/2 pound of beef brisket and 1/2 pound of pork ribs. If you need sauce, its not Texas BBQ.
175 Years Ago Today
Colonel Travis letter read by Willie Nelson. Click here to see the YouTube Video
175 Years Ago, February 8, 1836 – Former Congressman David Crockett Arrives at Alamo
David Crockett lost his election to the US Congress and was reported to tell the body “You can go to Hell. I’m going to Texas.”
Davy Crockett left Tennessee Nov. 1, 1835, with three other men to explore Texas. He picked up and lost several men on the way. Crockett arrived in Little Rock on November 12 and passed through NE Texas to hunt with one of my ancestors, Crockett’s fellow Tennessean and Texas Ranger, Henry Stout. Crockett and 65 men arrived in Nacogdoches, Texas in early January 1836 where they signed up as volunteers for the Provisional Government of Texas. On February 6, 1836 Crockett and five other men rode into San Antonio.Tennessee
The group spent the night at the home of Don Seguin along with Jim Bowie. Crockett first arrived at the Alamo on February 8.
Just like everything else, the death of Davey Crockett is controversial. Since this is my article, I choose to subscribe to and report that “Ben” a former slave and cook for Santa Ana reported Crockets body was found surrounded by at least sixteen dead Mexican soldiers he had killed in his last stand.
What Led to the Texas Revolution?
Mexico encouraged immigration into Texas in the early 1820’s in order to help settle the Texas Mexican State. Many US settlers made the journey including the original Stephen F. Austin group.
In 1830 the President of Mexico implemented several changes in the law to discourage immigration from the United States into Texas because the US settlers were outnumbering the Mexican born settlers.
Some of the measures imposed on the settlers were:
- Settlers were denied freedom of religion and were required to join the Catholic Church.
- Further immigration from the United States was prohibited
- Property taxes were imposed.
- Tariffs were imposed on goods from the US.
- A prohibition against slavery was imposed.
- Mexican criminals were given the choice of prison or serving in the Mexican army in Texas.
- Texas was combined with the Mexican State of Coahuila and the capital moved 500 miles south.
- When Stephen F. Austin went to Mexico to protest and petition for changes he was jailed.
In 1834 Texas there were:
- 30,000 US immigrants
- 7800 Mexican born immigrants
- 5000 slaves
In 1835 Santa Anna abolished the Constitution of 1824 which was based on a Federal Republic type of government (like we have in the United States) and installed a new constitution removing individual freedom and establishing a powerful centralized government. Sound familiar?