Real Texas Jalapeno Peanut Brittle Bacon Cookies

December 24, 2011

Merry Christmas! This year’s holiday recipe is a unique recipe. You can easily just make the Real Texas Jalapeño Peanut Brittle, but if you are willing to take just an extra creative step, you can make my Real Texas Jalapeño Peanut Brittle Bacon Cookies!  They are really delicious! To download the recipes and print them […]

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Music video Friday – 75 My Christmas music

December 23, 2011

My tastes in music is varied and eclectic or a varied mixture of what I like. On one  hand, I love Robert Earl Keen’s Christmas with the Family and on the other, there is the Three Tenores (Jose Carreras,  Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti)version of John Lennon’s Happy Christmas song.  Keen’s song is so typical of […]

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Real Texas Christmas 2011

December 20, 2011

Small Texas towns are waitin’ for Christmas By David Werst 1992   ‘Tis the week before Christmas and all through the town The lights are a shinin’, it sure does look grand. It’s a small Texas town, kinda far from the city, All the folks here pitched in, and made it look pretty.   There […]

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Music Video Friday – 74 Where’s the line

December 16, 2011

Where’s the line to see Jesus?

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Real Texas Tidbits of history

December 13, 2011

Texas Tidbits are a real treat There are several hundreds of you folks out there who enjoy a regular dose of Texas history every week or so in the form of Texas Tidbits.  You folks who don’t receive the ‘Tidbits’ can find and subscribe to Texas Tidbits over on the left side of this blog.  Just […]

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Music Video Friday – 73

December 9, 2011

Christmas music  in Real Texas

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Music Video Friday – 72

December 2, 2011

Run, Run, Rudolph This is a good start to get you in the spirit of Christmas.  I had a good ear to hear him date the song with the line “taking off like a Sabre jet at about the 2:15 mark.  I used to build Sabre Jet model airplanes…..Great Christmas song sung very well by […]

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Music Video Friday – 71

November 25, 2011

Ray Price is a Texas treasure Ray Price was born in Perryville, Texas in January 1926.  He served in the U.S. Marine Corp from 1944-1946.  For those of you who remember, the name of his band was The Cherokee Cowboys.  He is a 1996 inductee into the Country Music Hall of  Fame.  Some of the […]

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Real Texas Gratitude

November 23, 2011

We’re grateful Yes, even with bad news from all over, out here in Real Texas we are grateful to many people and for friends and fortune.  We have come to find out through the years that every body is somebody out here in Real Texas and we can learn something from nearly everyone we meet.  […]

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Music Video Friday – 70

November 18, 2011

Asleep At The Wheel We were in Austin a couple of weeks ago to attend the Texas Monthly 2nd Annual Barbecue Festival. Ray Benson & Friends were also there to provide part of the entertainment.  Ray has a vocal range that few can match.  He and the full compliment of Asleep at the Wheel are […]

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