One of the sites that I follow had a good article on rice and rice products (e.g. cereal, pasta, bread, and rice milk) and arsenic – which regions are the best and the worst, what health risks it poses, and how to lower the level of arsenic in the rice you buy. To read…
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!
Butchart Gardens
We took a ferry to Vancouver Island, from Vancouver, and spent 3 days in an Airbnb apartment in Chinatown in Victoria. The first time we visited Victoria, B.C., we didn’t go to Butchart Gardens, so this time, we were really looking forward to it. We even took a boat ride in the harbor by the…
Oh Canada
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…
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…