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We're not the only ones who are huge fans of the food blog Homesick Texan, so is OnSugar blogger FreshTart. Here, she tries out the Texan's recipe for Dallas-style beef brisket tacos.

I took this picture after...6 pm!  That is so outstanding I can barely contain myself.  It's been a long, dark winter in Minnesota and while it's still cold as hell, with a thick blanket of dirty snow covering everything (the color of despair as my Twitter friend @ChefSpencerGray called it, perfect), there is light.  Lalalight!

Light.

Keep reading for more beautiful photos of beef tacos.

If you've ever doubted the deliciousness of dark, leafy collard greens, OnSugar blogger Fresh Tart is here to reassure you with a new recipe. Try it, and you'll never feel the same way about collards ever again!

I've been meaning to post this recipe since the holidays, when I brought this dish to my aunt Mary & uncle Bruce's house for Christmas Day.  Time flies . . .

Actually, time doesn't fly in Minnesota between December and March, so I'm not sure what my excuse is.  But no matter, here it is.

Collard greens, for you (we) northerners, require longer cooking than say Swiss chard, spinach, or kale.  But that's what makes collards amazing - a slow simmer allows them to bathe long enough in smoky, porky broth to emerge . . . smoky and porky.  And meltingly tender.

Irresistible.  Doubters, trust me.

Get the recipe when you keep on reading.

Got a bunch of fresh eggs in your basket? Here's what OnSugar blogger Fresh Tart would do to make the most of them.

I've been slightly obsessed with food blogger/writer/photographer Kate Sommers's adventures in raising chickens in the city of Minneapolis.  After a couple of false starts — two hens turned out to be roosters! – she's now got three hens noisily cranking out pretty, pretty brown, pink, and blue eggs.

Probably because I haven't been very secret with my fascination, Kate very kindly offered to bring fresh eggs to a blogger event we both attended Monday night.

City-fresh eggs!  I was over-the-moon.  I need a life.  I luckily had bacon jam to offer in trade so I wasn't a complete freeloader.

Learn what Fresh Tart did with the egg-cellent addition to her larder when you keep reading.