I decided to plant some small pots of tomato seeds and eggplant seeds, and put them in my nursery area. For eggplant, there’s two varieties of Italian long purple and one Asian long purple. For tomatoes, I’m starting Mexican midget, green grape, and Plainsman. I found Plainsman on line, and it’s a Texas heritage tomato. …
Author: Lanie Fioretti
My name is Lanie Fioretti and although I am not a classically trained chef or a degreed nutritionist, I have been studying food and nutrition voraciously since the early seventies. After working in public health and private practice for 22 years, I retired my dental hygiene license. I have taught cooking classes at Whole Foods and Central Market, done product development for a bakery in east Texas, catered, and been a personal chef. I usually think of myself as an improvisational cook!
Salads Gone Wild
It was a day of foraging in the yard again. I’m shifting my thinking about what I’ve always thought of as pesky “weeds,” and reseeding nuisances. I’m now considering them as food! My salads have dandelion leaves, baby lamb’s quarters, and my ever present arugula. The salad in the picture has a little lettuce, a…
Pigout
We broke down and bought a La Caja China pig roaster. I mean everyone should have one, right? I am sure it will pay for itself (in several generations)!! Anyway, in a few years, it will be one of our progeny’s problems, I mean prized inheritances. All of that aside, I do love it, even…
New Schedule for Culinary Lunches at TSTC
Come enjoy a Taste of Thai at Culinary Arts Center this week, by Chris Jeffcoat & Jeffery George. Meals are now served four days a week, Tuesday through Friday, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Click this link to view the menu. The new Culinary Arts facility is located on Campus Drive. (view map). Culinary Arts…
Jack Allen’s Kitchen for Valentines
Don and I aren’t real fans of Valentine’s Day, but we usually go out to have a good meal. However, we try to avoid the actual day. We had initially chosen Wildfire in Georgetown, because it’s always been so good. But, when I looked at recent reviews, they were discouraging, so we decided on Jack…