Omg. Not Texan, but I get the recipe reference. I dreaded every single Wednesday night church pitch in we had to attend. The food other people cooked was repulsive, even when I was a kid. And my mother is awful at cooking! I mean, I didn't know that people actually made fried chicken from scratch until I was about 20. We ate KFC or that frozen Banquet crap. The only fresh veg we ever had was tomatoes and sweet corn in the summer.  I still get grief for making nearly everything from scratch. Fresh veg every night? I must be crazy!