This is my mom’s recipe, and she always made it for the holidays. It’s one of my in-laws’ favorite things, so I usually make it more than once a year. Now that we’re having a bumper crop of pecans, I don’t feel like I need to ration it so much. I make regular loaf size,…
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!
New Discoveries at the Grocery Store
I found a couple of things (new to me) at the grocery store that I really like, and they’ll be added to my pantry. It gives me new things to create with, this holiday season.
Christmas Dinner
This year, Don cooked Christmas dinner, and I was thrilled. First he went to the coast and caught the redfish (no joke), the weekend before Christmas. He decided to blacken it, and sear it in butter. We decided on some simple sides. There’s a little lettuce and arugula in the garden, so we had a…
Christmas Eve in Calvert
I wanted to make a trip to Calvert to the Epps Family Farm, and we had a great day trip on Monday. Frank and Jane Epps have a fabulous farm where they raise Large Black Hogs, chickens, geese, guinea hens, donkeys, longhorns, blackberries, melons, and vegetables. Don and I really wanted to see if we…
Have a Doggone Weenerful Christmas
Merry Christmas. Dixie wasn’t too excited about the hat, but I gave her a treat to make it worth her while. We have my sister-in-law to thank for the outfit. P.S. When Don took this picture, he said, “We’ve become those people!” (you know, the ones that dress-up their dogs)