CRE’s Secret Chefs

SRS Real Estate Partners biz development director Janie French (here with her husband and chef Michael French) partner up in the kitchen to make a yummy nut mix. They even created Frenchie's Fabulous Nut Co to sell their creations. Janie says the duo was selected as one of 25 finalists (out of 600 entries) in H-E-B's quest for Texas best contest. She tells us the company launched in 2012 after Michael watched an episode of The Best Thing I Ever Ate showcasing a gourmet nut mix made at a Boston bar. Michael experimented and came up with an oven-roasted, hand-tossed mix with a hint of cayenne pepper, brown sugar, and molasses to season the Brazil nuts, candied peanuts, pecans, cashews, candied walnuts, honey-roasted sesame sticks, and fresh rosemary.