Weather you’re eating a scrumptious huckleberry pie or feasting on warm huckleberry sauce over vanilla ice cream this holiday season, huckleberries are sure to be a crowd favorite. Wild blue huckleberries look like a small blueberry however they possess a much stronger, sweeter flavor. Huckleberries are perfectly more tart and perfectly more sweet then a blueberry making them perfect for desserts. Huckleberries also have twice as many antioxidants in them as wild blueberries making them a very healthy treat too. I will share with you three of my favorite holiday recipes using wild huckleberries purchased online from Northwest Wild Foods. They are great berries you can get year around from their website at www.nwwildfoods.com So first is my favorite recipe, a Huckleberry/Apple slump. This recipe is extremely simple to make. It requires a few basic ingredients; 10 minutes prep time, 1 hour bake time and boom, a great tasting holiday dessert that will be sure to impress all your

Austin, Texas, is well known for its exceptional restaurants, catering to all tastes, budgets and timeframes. If you're looking for some specific culinary treat at any given time, odds are, you'll find it here. The reputation is well earned, and new establishments tend to thrive in this colorful, varied city well, new establishments worth their salt, that is. One of these new hotspots that has recently come on to the Austin scene (and come on strong) is Primizie Osteria, a catering company and restaurant that's taken up a cozy little home on East 11th Street, just East of Austin's bustling downtown. Primizie Osteria is the brainchild of chef and co-owner Mark Spedale. After an extensive, high profile culinary career that began at the Art Institute of Houston and took wound its way through California and New York, Spedale finally made his way to Austin. Soon after, the idea for Primizie Osteria took root, as Spedale began to realize the abundance of opportunity for restaurants like hi