My nephew started making a delicious slaw, and perfect for summer. Even if you think it sounds a little strange, make it anyway! PrintSalsa Slaw Ingredients4 cups finely shredded cabbage or baby kale 1/3 cup diced Claussen pickles, seeds removed, or use baby kosher pickles 1 large jalapeño, seeded and diced 1/2 tsp mustard seeds…
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!
Up-Cycle
Whenever you’re getting ready to throw something away, think about whether you can use it for something totally different. In gardening, I find lots of interesting things to add to our landscape. Old metal bedsprings make perfect trellises. An old sink and toilet (from Habitat, ReStore) became planters, because I liked the color. The tank…
Carrots En Escabeche
I do love “all things pickled,” and I had a lot of carrots that I thought might be good as pickles. I started thinking about the jalapeño mixture that has a few carrot slices in it, and thought I’d reverse the quantity of the ingredients, because I like the carrots in that mixture, better than the…
Tuesdays at the Waco Downtown Farmers Market
The Waco Downtown Farmers Market is now open Tuesday evenings, in addition to Saturday mornings. The hours on Tuesday are from 3pm – 7pm. It’s perfect for me, because Saturdays are getting more difficult to make. Right now, there are not as many vendors as on Saturday, but I did get tamales, pita, rhubarb, and…
El Monumento, Georgetown
On the way home from Austin, after all the shopping, we were starving, and decided to try the Monument Cafe’s – Tex-Mex restaurant – El Monumento. It was good Tex-Mex, definitely a healthier version. I had a great Shrimp Chile Relleno, and Don had Grilled Carne. Service was a bit strange, the staff was young…