Saturday was very close to a perfect day, great weather, great company, and fun places to go. We started out at the Waco Downtown Farmers Market. I got some grape tomatoes, gorgeous eggplant, more country pork ribs (pastured pork, and they’re always good), dog bones, non-GMO blue cornmeal, beef fat, and Caprino Royale feta. Caprino…
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!
(Breakfast) Peanut Butter Baked Oatmeal
It’s time to start thinking of fall recipes, and this is Angela’s great breakfast recipe. It’s bound to end up in your fall / winter recipe repertoire. If you don’t like peanut butter, try almond butter or cashew butter. On special occasions, you may want to decrease the sugar and add Nutella! Print(Breakfast) Peanut Butter…
Panama As We Picture It
It’s not that there weren’t things that went wrong while we were in Panama, like losing one of my favorite earrings, the one hour ride on a road so bad I’m sure my internal organs are rearranged, or the scrape across the bumper of the rent car that happened while it was parked, but this…
Blueberry, Corn, and Basil Salad
We got back to the states late Tuesday. Wednesday will be spent trying to get geared-up and quit moving on “Panama time”. Don has promised to get the pictures uploaded, so I can share them with you. And luckily, Angela has another great recipe for you today. As I discovered, there’s a reason you don’t…
Panama – The Final Days
Sounds ominous, doesn’t it? We’re ready to come home. We spent Sunday site seeing and taking a few more pictures. We went to a new place to eat lunch, and I had the best and biggest piece of tuna ever. Don had a fabulous seafood soup with shrimp, lobster, and fish. Now we’re taking a…