I love to cook, my friends and
family have always told me I had a real talent for it. I had a group of
signature dishes that everyone always wanted to be on hand for when I
made them.
Then I was lucky enough to get the chance to meet a very special family
of people from Santa Fe, Texas, who have taken my time in the kitchen
to a whole new level of enjoyment, Bill and Barb Powell, makers of Texas
Select Seasonings Spice blends and salsas!
I could spend a great deal of time talking about the quality of the kosher
grade spices, open a shaker and the quality is apparent in the aroma that
fills your kitchen! I could talk about how there are no preservatives
or MSG, and all the blends are PURE, very low sodium or no sodium. Heck,
I could write advertising slogans for TSS all day if I wanted to. But
all the words in the world cannot begin to tell a person what sets Texas
Select apart from anything you can ever put in your kitchen.
What makes Texas Select so special can be summed up very easily for our
family: Bill and Barb Powell and the Texas Select family.
Every great "homestyle" cook knows that you can hit every 5
star restaurant you can find, and the food might be good, but nothing
can ever touch what comes through generations of family spending time
in the kitchen, adding a pinch of this and a pinch of that, perfecting
dishes with love of what they are doing for their families. Dishes that
are passed through families on recipe cards and stored in little boxes
for generations.
Bill and Barb have brought generations of their family to our home with
Texas Select, and the love and pride that they put into their products
put a stamp on Texas Select products that put them heads and shoulders
above anything else you will ever try. The ingredients are of the highest
quality, but for our family, the true quality of Texas Select comes from
the special meaning the products have for the wonderful people that have
decided to share their family with ours.
Spices that are so perfectly blended you pick them up and recipe ideas
will flood your head. When I cook with TSS my boys come out in the kitchen
noses up an spoons in hand. Those rat boys never liked to cook much but
my excitement since we discovered TSS is contagious, and now there is
going to be a whole new generation of great cooks to make life easier
for their wives!
Salsas that tell you the time of year in Santa Fe by the flavor of the
home grown produce that is used in every jar. Salsa that we order by the
case.
If I had a nickel for every time I have seen products that are advertised
as being "homestyle", I would be rich.
If I had a nickel for every product I tried that delivered what "homestyle"
means to me, I would have one nickel, and call it my Texas Select five
cent piece!
I am proud to share these TSS recipes with everyone who wants to try them,
they represent some very special times to me, time spent with my boys
during the making of them, and time spent with family and friends enjoying
them. I believe that anyone who enjoys cooking will try TSS one time and
join the family, I just ask that once you do, you share your creations
with Bill and Barb and the rest of us!
ENJOY
Tim, Dianne, Bobby, Brett, Andreu, and Alex
Indianola, Iowa (AKA Santa Fe, Central states suburb)
Peach Mango Chicken
- click here for recipe
TSS Injected Turkey
- click here for recipe
Juicy
Pig/Apple Juiced Pork Ribs - click
here for recipe
Blackened
Pot Roast - click here for
recipe
Ultimate
Sandwich - click here for recipe
Apricot Pig - click here for recipe
TSS
Enhanced Pizza - click here for
recipe