Delicious, easy, and one of my favorite Italian food groups, Pizza BLT is the perfect marriage of the ever popular pizza and the classic BLT. Since we have a lot of great homegrown tomatoes this summer, I’m raising and expanding the BLT menu. We eat a BLT with the first tomato of the season (a…
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!
Brown Sugar Shortbread
Just a note first – the website has an entirely new look, and much easier to use with handheld devices. We really like it, and hope you will too. It’s a learning curve for me, so I’m sure there will be some slips! Shortbread cookies are one of our favorite desserts. There are never-ending variations,…
Snake Control
Never underestimate the power of cheap wildlife netting. It’s the same type of netting we use on tomatoes. After covering all the plants that the deer find irresistible, we noticed that our resident rat snakes get tangled in it, and eventually die. Most of the year I don’t mind rat snakes living here, because they…
Thai Food – Belton
September 2015, Kathy told me about Narunya’s, but I just recently went there for the first time. I like Mee Mee Thai in Temple, but Narunya’s is better. We had an incredible meal, and the restaurant is clean, new, and has a great feel. It’s worth the trouble to get to this Belton location near…
Making the Most of Pantry Staples
I’m experimenting with sprouting some of my pantry staples, to create new flavors, and increase the food value. My first two attempts turned out really well. First, I sprouted dried chickpeas, then cooked them like I normally would. For sprouting instructions, refer to the Indoor Gardening with Sprouts post. Next I worked with brown rice….