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…
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’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…
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.…