Category: Features

What’s Cookin’?

Bert Zeitlin submitted the best dessert recipe.

Desserts: Bert Zeitlin – Mountain Dew Apple Dumplings 2 (10 oz.) cans refrigerated crescent roll dough 2 large Granny Smith apples 1 cup butter 1 cup sugar 1 tsp. vanilla 1 tsp. ground cinnamon 1 (12 oz.) can or bottle of Mountain Dew Ice cream (optional) Grease a 9 x 13 baking dish. Preheat oven…

One Blustery Day

Paula and Laura Hemingway

Paula Hemingway Is this Texas? Did I move to Robson Ranch or Siberia? I’d never seen so much ice in the Lone Star State, but I figured it would be gone in a day or two. Boy, was I wrong. It hung around like a bad cold. Television had lost its luster. We were bored…

‘Round Robbie – December 2014

Robbie at Rock of Gibraltar

‘Round Robbie’s been to the Rock M. Lehrer Howdy folks, Round Robbie reporting on my latest great adventure. I’ve been to the “Rock”—-Have you ever been to the Rock? Well, it’s quite a big rock as in the “Rock of Gibraltar”. Yup, I was there with Ron and Maureen Lehrer. Did you know there are…

Wine and Dine – December 2014

Pollo Tropical Lolly Evans When I first saw the signs that “Pollo Tropical” was being built on Loop 288 in front of the Denton Mall, I was ecstatic. We used to eat quite often in a Caribbean restaurant in Marble Falls, and we both enjoyed it tremendously. I thought Pollo Tropical would be the same.…