The Texas Highways collection of
Essential
Texas Recipes
Welcome to the Texas Highways recipe page. Food is known for bringing people together, whether physically or ideologically (see: no beans in chili). It’s both sustenance and pleasure, with dashes of history, culture, and family. Because of this, recipes are much more than a list of ingredients and step-by-step directions—they’re a reflection of who we are and where we come from. We hope that this compendium of classic Texas recipes published in our magazine and on our website not only nourishes you, but also informs you about the foodways of our great state.
In this guide, you’ll find recipes from the Texas Highways archives. See something you like but aren’t quite ready to cook? Enter your email address in the “Save for Later” box at the top of each recipe, and we’ll email you the recipe to reference later.
Side Dishes
Pimento Cheese
Mattie’s at Green Pastures in Austin
Black-Eyed Peas
Ross Coleman, Houston
Kolaches
Dorothy Kubena, longtime participant in Caldwell’s Kolache Festival
Tookie’s Campechana Cocktail Recipe
Tookie’s Seafood in Seabrook
Fire-Roasted Hatch Chile Salsa
Prickly Pear Barbecue Sauce
Evan LeRoy, Chef, Pitmaster, and Co-owner of LeRoy and Lewis Barbecue, Austin
Main Courses
Brisket at Home
Hutchins BBQ, Dallas
Biscuits and Gravy
Jacoby’s Restaurant and Mercantile, Austin
Tamales
Pork or Pineapple/Pumpkin/Rasin
Tex-Mex Enchiladas
From the Texas Highways Cookbook (UT Press)
Potato-and-Sausage Breakfast Tacos
Veracruz All-Natural, Austin
Chilaquiles
Jessica Dupuy, United Tastes of Texas
Texas-Style Chili
Eric Pohl
Locke Family Chicken-Fried Steak
Salina Locke, Hungerford, Texas
Desserts
Chocolate Pecan Rye Pie with Chocolate Pecan Sorbet
Steve McHugh, chef and owner of Cured in San Antonio
Buttermilk Pie
Stockman’s Steakhouse, Crockett
Peach Crisp
Cabernet Grill’s Vogel Orchard
Mesquite Cookies
Cappadona Ranch
Lavender Pecan Crisps
Chappell Hill Lavender Farm
Peach Ice Cream
Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson
Drinks
Bourbon Smash
Marsha Milam
Ranch Water
Capri Bar and Restaurant, Marfa
Christmas Punch
Melissa Guerra
Paloma
Desert Door Sotol
Glühwein
German-Texan Heritage Society member Petra Mueller
Peach Bellini
Matt Church, Hye Market in Hye
