Finally, we got the pictures ready. There are some in the towns and some on the train. We started our trip in Calgary, and boarded the train in Banff. The train journey ended in Vancouver. I’ll post pictures of Butchart Gardens separately. Here are some of the views on and from the train. We had…
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!
Renovation for Stagecoach in Salado
I had heard the Stagecoach Inn had been bought and was going to be reopened with a great new menu. It’s taken me a while to find information on it. La Corsha Hospitality will be operating the new restaurant replacing Stagecoach. The principals of La Corsha operated the Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas, and…
Egg Salad Supreme
We stayed in an apartment, when we were in Victoria, BC, and our flight left really early in the morning. We had 4 things left in the fridge, so I made huge, protein packed, breakfast sandwiches, to get us through most of the day! Don’t worry, I still have to posted a lot of pictures…
Support Poles from Purple Lambsquarter
Although some consider it a weed, several years ago, I planted purple lambsquarter. Lambsquarter is a great, edible, xeriscape plant, and in addition to eating it, and trimming some into small landscape trees, in the past few years, I’ve begun harvesting the stalks, drying them, and using them as support poles, for vining plants. The…
Canada 2015
Canada is still one of our favorite places. I’ll have more pictures later this coming week. I took a couple with the iPad that I can put in this post. First, it’s so great to be out of 100 degree weather. And then there’s the scenery, it’s magnificent. We were on a train, going through…