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Pie in the sky? Recipe tweaks can make Thanksgiving treats healthier Aside from beZarah ing grateful for what we have, Parker Managing Thanksgiving is Editor all about food: turkey, stuffing, sides and rolls. More importantly, perhaps, you can’t have Thanksgiving without pie. “Pies are the best part of dinner,” local resident Sharron Sanborn said. It’s against Sanborn’s personal rule to buy a pie for the holiday, no matter what store it is from. She said all the pies at her house are homemade. “We always have an apple pie; I prefer crumb topping but my hubs prefers double crust,” Sanborn said. “I’ve also often made a cranberry pie. And usually a spiced pumpkin pie.” Sanborn bakes some of the most popular pies in America or the classic pies most people have tried at least once. In a local Facebook group, other area residents chimed in with their favorite pies to end -- or start -- Thanksgiving dinner. Some locals shared how they bake a classic pie, which is far from a health-conscious dessert, and put a healthier twist on it. “Pecan is my favorite,” Sarah Walker said. “I like to only eat it on Thanksgiving because, like the full Thanksgiving meal I only have once a year, it’s something else I can look forward to.” When baking pumpkin pie, Gina Holland makes little changes to cut the calorie count. “I buy a store-bought crust, but roll it out so it’s thinner,” Holland said. “It’s just a little change, but it makes it where I’m not eating as much crust. I also use fat-free milk when making the filling.” Another area resident cuts down on the calories in pecan pie, which gets most of its unhealthiness from butter and corn syrup. Martha Tilney uses neither of those ingredients and instead finds alternatives like coconut oil. “I let the natural sugar from the apples
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with a load of whipped cream. It’s hard to think healthy on a holiday that is all about food, food and more food, so one resident said she doesn’t even try. She said she doesn’t want to have to worry about making small changes to make a pie healthier when Thanksgiving day and the week leading up to it is busy enough. “A part of the fun of eating on Thanksgiving is not caring about calories,” Sandy McCann said. “As for pie, I’ll usually eat a slice or two of my favorite, apple, with a scoop of ice cream.”
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Flying Saucer Pie Company is known for having lines during the Thanksgiving week, and while I’ve never braved that line myself, I’ve eaten pies from there most my life and know that the people waiting in line are doing it for a quality pie. Recently, a family get-together warranted buying pies from Flying Saucer. The go-to pie for my family is the chocolate cream and apple pie. So I grabbed those, plus two that I haven’t tried from the pie company yet, the banana cream and pecan pie. The latter, I usually bake myself during the holidays, which made me more curious how this classic stood out. I wasn’t disappointed. Over the course of the day I cut a slice from each pie to reacquaint my palate to pies I’ve loved and to introduce it to the new pies. My first slice was of the apple pie. I didn’t even have to cut into it to have a waft of cinnamon and apple hit my senses. The double crust pie was filled with apple slices so
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tasted fresh from the kitchen. Thick chunks of fresh banana were layered into the pudding, which was smooth, consistent and not gooey. The whipped cream that topped the pie was light and airy and pretty much the best whipped cream I’ve had on a pie, and since it’s used on the chocolate cream pie as well, I got to enjoy it twice. The banana cream pie is considered a “24-hour pie,” meaning you should get it and then eat it, because the fresh bananas won’t last long. Chocolate cream pie is just
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Art Valet: Hardy & Nance Studios holds THE BOOK SCENE special place in Houston area’s art scene Your neighborhood Bookstore Mitch Cohen Art Columnist
There is no question that Houston has a huge presence of art and artists. Artist studio space is a booming business and as a result, artists seeking studio spaces have many options from which to choose. With Houston’s 27th Annual ArtCrawl just a week away, I wanted to profile one of my favorite Houston studio spaces: Hardy & Nance Studios. Hardy & Nance Studios (H&N) is one space I’ve mentioned in this column on many occasion. In fact, Brandi Untz, the digital artist I profiled in last week’s column, has a studio at H&N. H&N is located in Houston’s downtown Art Warehouse District at 902 Hardy St. One of the many things that makes H&N unique is that it’s located in an old building in an area that has been home to artists for nearly 70 years. According to the studio website, that puts it among the oldest remaining urban art colonies in America. The building is charming and has that lived-in feel. And it has been. Artists go there to create their art as much as offer it for sale at the many events hosted under its roof.
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is not a new skill he learned here at the shelter; he used to let out his dog sibling in the house at his old home. If someone out there is looking for a clever cat that gets along with dogs but does not get along with closed doors, we have someone they really need to come and meet. Please. Come meet him. And take him home. Please.� The label of “spicy ahole� that Friends for Life bestowed on Quilty struck a chord. The Instagram account @free_quilty has more than 20,000 followers and then there are the hashtags: #QuiltyNotGuilty, #FreeQuilty and #NoMoreDoors. “People have told me that they just wanted to watch Quilty and laugh,� Shuttlesworth said. Ironically, the family who took Quilty home for a trial period last Saturday put in an application for him before he blew up the Internet. “They just liked him,� said Shuttlesworth, who added that since the application process takes a while, Quilty had time to get famous. During the interim, Friends for Life got adoption requests from as far away as Canada and the UK.
The family came to collect him in their Christmas cat blazers and a car painted with Quilty sayings and hashtags. His homecoming was streamed live on Instagram. “They’re the right type of people (for him),� Shuttlesworth said. A recent update from the family said Quilty hasn’t put his Houdini skills to work as of yet and is instead working on his snuggling. One of the ways that Friends for Life is capitalizing on Quilty’s popularity is to classify its existing adoptable cats. Of course there’s a hashtag for that: #QuiltyRecommendsCats. There is Quilty swag available to the public for purchase and one woman, Carolyn Levy, is sponsoring a promotion that if someone adopts a cat from Friends for Life between now and the end of November, they get a #FreeQuilty shirt for free. For more information about the other animals behind the doors at Friends for Life, visit https://friends4life.org/ or the Don Sanders Adoption Center at 107 E. 22nd St.
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Are senior pets trainable? Also, you’re in luck, because the old adage, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks” just doesn’t hold water for most dogs. In fact, there are even some basic commands that you can teach your older dog at home that will greatly help him to interact more favorably at home as well as out and about. “The first few commands are usually basic obedience commands such as sit, down, stay, walking on leash and most importantly, to come when called,” said Elizabeth Bachle, a technician at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences pharmacy and an agility instructor at Puppy Love training. “These are a great foundation to training more complex behaviors and can keep your pet out of harm’s way. “Training your dog not only rewards good behaviors, but can also prevent unwanted behaviors before they begin. I would highly encourage new puppy owners to attend a group class to socialize and create a strong
Dear Tabby, We’re interested in adopting a senior dog soon, but are concerned about bringing an animal into our home who might have long-held bad manners that can’t be reversed (due to old age). What do you think...are senior dogs trainable? Skeptical of senior pets in Shady Grove Dear Skeptical, In case you didn’t know, November is Adopt A Senior Pet month, so in shelters across the area, you’re likely to get a great deal on a slightly older pet. These pets all come fully-vetted and spayed or neutered with a clean bill of health. Can you teach old dogs new tricks?
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Zuvie’s Brews: Area beer scene continuing to evolve Adam Zuvanich Editor
Kristen Schapson had been a regular visitor to 5301 Nolda St., where Buffalo Bayou Brewing Co. began crafting beer in 2011 and served it to the public three days per week. The Heights resident enjoyed an elevated experience for her birthday Monday night, and not just because she was sipping suds on a rooftop with her husband and three friends. One of Houston’s most popular craft breweries built a three-story, 28,000 square feet “Brewtopia” at 2101 Summer St. in Sawyer Yards, where Buffalo Bayou Brewing Co. reopened Nov. 1. The signature feature is a rooftop bar and patio and on the third floor, where there is a view of Downtown Houston that resembles the brewery’s longtime logo. “This is awesome,” Schapson said. “We go to Karbach and Saint Arnold and those places. This feels like they’re coming into the game, like they’re here to show up and be part of that brewery scene.” Damien Franco, a Shepherd Forest resident and the marketing manager for Buffalo Bayou Brewing, said the move was multiple years in the making and will allow the company to meet demand by brewing four to five times as much beer as it did before. The brewery has nine beers that it makes year-round – including the Crush City IPA, 1836 red ale, Wake ‘N Bake
coffee blonde ale and Great White Buffalo witbier – along with nearly 40 seasonal offerings. Buffalo Bayou’s massive storage tanks are visible to visitors as part of what Franco calls an “immersive experience.” Customers are greeted by a bar and row of taps upon entering on the first level, which will include indoor seating as well as a dog patio by the end of this month. On the second story is another bar with taps as well as a restaurant led by Chef Arash Kharat, whose offerings include pizzas made with dough that ferments for three days. Buffalo Bayou was limited to having food trucks at its original location. Franco said the brewery also has enlisted Houston artist Voltaire to paint a custom mural for the building. “We consider ourselves Houston’s most creative brewery,” Franco said. “Attaching ourselves at the hip to the Sawyer Yards area with all these artists was sort of a no-brainer.” New Magnolia upcoming While one area craft brewer is expanding, another is about to get off the ground. New Magnolia Brewing Co. plans to open to the public Nov. 22 at 1616 Bevis St. in Shady Acres. The brewpub started as a joint venture between Shayn Robinson and his father-in-law, John Ferguson, and two months ago they enlisted another beer maker with an impressive pedigree. Sean Spiller, a Houstonarea native who previously worked for Buffalo Bayou Brewing Co. and 8th Wonder Brewery, most recently was
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Local football teams primed for postseason By Landan Kuhlmann landan@theleadernews.com The Heights Bulldogs have built a culture of playoff contention under head coach Stephen Dixon, having qualified the high school football postseason every year since 2010. Now they are looking to build a new culture of playoff success and advance past the bi-district round for the first time since 2013. Heights (4-6) squared off with Houston Memorial (64), which finished fourth in District 17-6A, in a Class 6A Division II bi-district playoff game Thursday. Go online to theleadernews.com for results. The Bulldogs defeated Westbury 39-19 last Thursday night to finish off a strong regular season, which saw them place third in District 18-6A behind Lamar and Bellaire. Heights went 4-2 in district play. With a playoff spot clinched prior to the game, Kendric Rhymes got the start at quarterback in place of
Jalen Morrison and did not disappoint. The junior completed 8 of 12 passes for 151 yards and three touchdowns while adding 154 yards and three more scores rushing to pace the Bulldogs’ attack. St. Thomas (7-3, 4-0 TAPPS District 3) polished off an undefeated district run with a 47-21 triumph over St. Pius X in the schools’ annual rivalry game last Friday night. Maddox Kopp threw for 283 yards and five touchdowns in the victory for the Eagles, who won five straight to end the regular season and will host Addison Trinity Christian (0-10) in a TAPPS Division I first-round game at 1 p.m. Saturday. Despite a loss to Bay Area Christian last Friday night, Lutheran High North (6-2) still finished with its best record since 2016. The Lions, who finished third in Division III, District 4 under first-year head coach Shaun Stephens, looked to advance past the first round of the postseason for the first time since 2009 when they played at Texas School
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for the Deaf (6-4) in Austin for a TAPPS Division III game on Friday night. While it may have been a season of learning for St. Pius X (2-8), the Panthers have a chance to rewrite the story of their season when TAPPS postseason play begins this weekend. The Panthers will play at Midland Christian (6-4) in a TAPPS Division I first-round matchup at 4 p.m. Saturday. Basketball season tips off The high school basketball season has just started for teams in the area and all across Texas. UIL girls teams began play last Friday, while the boys season is slated to begin this Friday night. TAPPS play has also begun for both boys and girls teams.
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