{"id":8506,"date":"2018-05-18T17:28:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T17:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8506"},"modified":"2018-05-18T17:28:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T17:28:37","slug":"los-fresnos-couple-master-art-of-making-brittle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8506","title":{"rendered":"Los Fresnos Couple Master Art of Making Brittle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Warren and Marilou MacNelly show the many kinds of brittles they make at home.<\/p><\/div>\n

by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Warren<\/a>

Warren MacNelly with one of 30 plus flavors of brittles.<\/p><\/div>\n

Brittle lovers now have a place to get the sweet treat made right here at home.<\/p>\n

Warren MacNelly and his wife, Marilou, are a Los Fresnos couple behind a business venture called Mac\u2019s Brittle which they advertise as Sinfully Delicious.<\/p>\n

Unlike the usual brittle people are accustomed to made of peanuts and pecans, the MacNellys went a lot farther to the point of making 33 different flavors of the hard candy.<\/p>\n

Two of the many brittles they make have such ingredients as cayenne and habanero peppers. Others are non-spicy like a brittle with pumpkin seeds, cinnamon and vanilla.<\/p>\n

\u201dI have been making and selling brittles for a little more than three years,\u201d Warren MacNelly said. \u201cBut my business finally took off to the point that is hard to keep it up with the demand.\u201d<\/p>\n

His wife said her husband is the fourth generation of a family making brittles though not to the extent Warren is doing today.<\/p>\n

Today, his brittles are found in a number of restaurants in the Rio Grande Valley, including the New York Delis.<\/p>\n

\u201cI make them as needed,\u201d he said. \u201cI tried to keep a stockpile but people keep calling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although he is the person behind the operation, his wife said she likes to experiment in the kitchen and helps her husband come up with different flavors.<\/p>\n

Mac\u2019s Brittle is one of dozens of vendors people can find in the Under the Stars Artisan Market held every month at Memorial Park.<\/p>\n

The next Artisan Market is this Saturday, May 19th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Tony Vindell\/LFN Brittle lovers now have a place to get the sweet treat made right here at home. Warren MacNelly and his wife, Marilou, are a Los Fresnos couple behind a business venture called Mac\u2019s Brittle which they advertise as Sinfully Delicious. Unlike the usual brittle people are accustomed to made of peanuts and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8507,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506\/revisions\/8507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}