Issue #13, October 12, 2026
To celebrate today’s National Food Day double-header, I'm breaking the "cook only one thing" rule this week to bring you my Pumpkin Spice Pulled Pork Tailgaters, AND my 13-Ingredient Halloween Gumbo.
I then encourage you, my ambitious readers, to consider making a gala Daube Glacé for your next chic soirée. It's a magnificent, always-enticing New Orleans tradition worth preserving.
My Downtown Chicken and Rice Jubilee is a festive family-friendly alternative, and my Autumn Quiche Minis are always a reliable crowd pleaser.
Now get your pot on the heat, and let's all eat! — Brian Theis
If You Cook Only TWO Things This Week
Pulled Pork Tailgaters and 13-Ingredient Gumbo
🚨 BREAKING NEWS
Downtown Chicken and Rice Jubilee
We’ve made the uptown scene above with our Daube Glacé, so let's head downtown now for my $15 Chicken and Rice Jubilee. I recently had the pleasure of joining my friends Ben and Marysol on PIX11's New York Living. We had a lot of fun prepping a budget dish my producer had asked me to come up with only the day before! Click below for the pocketbook-pacifying recipe AND the zany video segment.
The Last Bite
Autumn Quiche Minis
Autumn's in the air, so it's time to roll out a fall favorite: my quiche minis. First TV recipe ever with my dear Maggie Flecknoe on CW39 in Houston. Click the link to cook. You can even look on in amazement as I bust some awesome TV dance moves!
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