Tag: Tex-Mex

The Salt Lick barbecue in Driftwood, Texas
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Texas-Style Barbecue Sauce

Texas-style barbecue sauce differs substantially from its cousin to the north in Kansas City. It’s thinner — almost soupy — less sweet and has only a touch of tomatoes or ketchup.

Bowl of sweet coleslaw
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Sweet Coleslaw

This summer side dish is popular in the Midwestern United States and down into Central Texas, where it is called vinegar slaw and is served alongside Texas “low and slow” barbecue.

Small dish a guacamole with avocados and a tomato
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Guacamole

Guacamole originated in Mexico, but it is enjoyed throughout Central America, as well as in the American Southwest and in Tex-Mex cuisine.

Small bowl of cowboy beans
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Cowboy Beans

Full of spicy Tex-Mex flavor, this border-state variation of baked beans bulks up with a hefty helping of browned ground beef and adds a nice dose of barbecue sauce.

Large pot of chili simmering on outdoor stove
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Chili con Carne

The combination of powdered chiles and meat is likely an ancient one. However, in its current form, chili seems to have started somewhere along the U.S.-Mexico border.