Saturday November 21st 9am – 3:00pm We’ve been waiting for this – it’s time for Owl Creek Ceramics Christmas Open House! Dyna and John have tons of lovely gifts and special pieces, 10% off all in-stock items during the open house!! Plus, the “Baskets of Africa” are wonderful, and there’s a great selection. Dyna always…
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!
Nopalitos and Bacon
I’m on a mission to clean out the freezer, and I found a package of cactus from the spring harvest. Cactus is one of my favorites that could only be made better by the addition of bacon! Whatever is leftover from this recipe, I’m turning into nopalitos with potato and egg. PrintNopalitos and Bacon IngredientsExtra virgin…
Fall Sausage Pasta
We can’t seem to keep up with picking tomatoes, right now. They’re small but delicious. I’m roasting a lot of them into our favorite sauce, then freezing whatever we can’t use. When you add that harvest to our bumper crop of basil, it makes for some fabulous pasta dishes. The last time I made this,…
Reduce Food Waste
Since about 40% of food is wasted in this country and we still have over 15 million Americans going hungry every year, a new bill is being drafted to go to Congress. The bill will address different approaches by consumers, the agricultural system, restaurants, institutions, and stores. To read a short article by Civil Eats, click…
Fall Gardening – 2015
I choose to believe that fall has actually arrived. And hopefully it’s starting with a lot of rain. The swiss chard has revived, there’s lots of butternut squash on the vines, and I’ve started planting the winter garden. I trimmed all the lambs quarter stalks as support for the sugar snap peas, pea pods, and…