What a great weekend to go to Kerrville. We drove Route 16 most of the way there, and just south of San Saba continuing almost to Fredericksburg was an unbelievable show of wildflowers. Yellow and orange as far as you could see through the fields and up the hills as if someone laid a blanket…
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!
Fresh Kosher Pickles
We got one too many cucumbers from the garden this week, so I started making fresh pickles. It’s so easy to make good pickles this way. You just have to have the patience to wait. I’ve done a quicker version (a couple of hours) by increasing the vinegar and spices. They taste really fresh and…
TSTC Gourmet Lunch and Austin
TSTC Culinary Arts will serve its first gourmet lunch for the summer 2012 semester on Wednesday, June 13. Lunches are served from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays at the Greta W. Watson Culinary Arts Center, located on Campus Drive. (view map), 254.867.4868, www.waco.tstc.edu/cln. Austin It didn’t occur to me that things…
(Breakfast) Baked Eggs
Baked eggs are a great way to cook eggs for 2 or 20. You can make them as rich or as lean as you like. We love this dish. Right now, I have so many vegetables, I dreaming up all kinds of ways to use them. There are lots of things you can make into…
Cardoon and Other Anomalies
Cardoon is a close relative of the artichoke and is huge and gorgeous. They are both types of thistles. The Dallas Arboretum had a lot of cardoon plants in large containers. The young stems are edible and quite sought after in Italian cuisine. I like the way the plant looks so much that I couldn’t…