Ya’at’eeh (Hello) Gorgeous!
I’m Alana Yazzie! A fancy Diné (Navajo) lifestyle and food blogger from Phoenix, Arizona who loves to cook, eat, and drink coffee. I was born and raised in New Mexico, so I looove spicy and Native American cuisines! I also love fashion and traveling. I enjoy sharing what I am cooking in my kitchen along with my food travels on Instagram. If you aren’t following me on Instagram, go do that now! You won’t be disappointed!
As a Navajo woman, I think its important to support Native American Owned businesses and to always buy native and local! I love to incorporate my Native American heritage into my every day life. From wearing turquoise jewelry that my husband makes, to cooking traditional Navajo food. I enjoy adding a Fancy Navajo twist to everything I do! On my blog, I share my recipes as well as Native American businesses that I love. So go take a peak!
I started this blog in 2014 and I am a full time content creator and photographer in Phoenix, AZ. I have worked with local and national companies such Fry’s Food Stores, Bashas’, Kroger, the Heard Museum, Native Health, SRP, Meta, Nutella, Bob’s Red Mill, Vital Farms, and La Brea Bakery.
Want to collaborate? Need help producing content for your business? Or maybe you need help promoting your business? Want me to demonstrate one of my recipes in person? Send me an email at TheFancyNavajo@gmail.com and let’s discuss!
Also here’s a more formal bio if you are looking for one. 🙂
Alana Yazzie is the creator of The Fancy Navajo, a lifestyle and food blog created in 2014, that follows Alana’s life as a contemporary Diné/Navajo woman living in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. Originally from Northwest New Mexico, Alana inspires others to embrace their culture, wherever they live, by sharing a variety of lifestyle content such as recipes, fashion, and gardening infused with her Navajo heritage. Alana’s greatest passion is developing innovative and approachable recipes that use Indigenous and Southwestern ingredients. Through, The Fancy Navajo, she enjoys capturing her Navajo lifestyle in modern and bright settings to showcase the continued presence and thriving of Indigenous peoples.
Follow along and let’s be friends! You can find me on Instagram and Facebook.
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XOXO,
Alana
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I love your style!
Thanks Lady!
It’s all about Natives supporting Natives! Love your page. 🏹❤️🏹
Thanks lady!!! Yes!!!
Love your blog. Love to see my fellow native blogging and showing their talents.
Thank you so much for your support!
Hello Alana I’m glad I found your blog, I’ve been looking for like-minded women writers and bloggers as yourself. Looking forward to read your blog!
Aww thank you so much!!
Hello from New Mexico ☺️. Looked up Navajo style biscuits and I just finished watching the spam and potatoes with biscuits video. I’ve never made the biscuits on my own and loved the way shi masani them. Thanks to your video I have new inspiration for breakfast this morning. I already am inspired to watch more content on your channel. Nizhoni!
C. Y.
Awww thank you so much!! Hope you enjoyed the recipe!!
Hi Alana, I’m so happy to find you! It’s taking me a long time to move back to the southwest and I crave personal content like yours. I can pretend, for a minute, that I’m there.
I have a couple of points to get your feedback on.
First, have you seen Babette’s Feast? I don’t know if I could watch it now because I love animals alive, but there’s a foodie movie for you.
Second, I’m sure you’ve had pinon (I’ve got to figure out how to get the tilde) coffee made with the actual nut so was it much of a letdown to drink it made with flavoring? I’ve been thinking about ordering New Mexico Pinon Coffee, but the flavorings issue always makes me hesitate. I’m tempted by the Biscochito, Adobe Morning and Mexican Spiced Chocolate but…. So what do you think?
Thank you for your efforts!
Hi there!! Yay!! That is great to hear! Welcome! I have not seen that movie, but now that you recommended it. I will have to check it out. I love New Mexico Piñon Coffee. The traditional is my every day coffee. I have a couple of posts about them. Since piñons are not commercially produced they have to use the piñon flavoring. I love it!! Adobe Morning is my second favorite next to the traditional coffee. Enjoy!
I love your traditional recipes. Do you have a cookbook?
Thank you! I don’t but share them here.
Just took the results of your BAGEL recipe and method of preparation out of the oven. I loved the way you instructed to mix the dough for a full 10 minutes with my stand mixer. I’ve tried some other methods and this, by far, was the easiest and most efficient and effective. By using a smaller batch recipe, was able to use the smaller mixing bowl. Amazingly, before it got to that 10 minutes, it had just about wiped that bowl clean. The dough wasn’t sticky and the gluten was beautifully stretched and strengthened. You are definitely one very smart home chef. Other instructions, including those on the King Arthur Baking website, instruct us to cook the dough calls for less time. The 2 minutes per side gave better results. The very best TIP was to drain the cooked dough on folded tea towels. I was calling that draining process all kinds of names, in 3 different languages, due to the royal pain of putting them on parchment paper and struggling to get them off and into the water plus draining on a cooling rack. Grrrrr ~~~ 🤣🤭😂. I did the cornmeal piles on the silicone baking mat and that went okay but won’t do that next time because of personal preference. Didn’t paint the tops with the egg white wash this time because I want to evaluate how well they’ll make a breakfast sandwich without, for a change. All in all, your recipe and methods are the absolute best of all I’ve used. As for the others, it’s game over. From now on, am sticking to my favorite Navajo baking mentor.
Suggestion: Regarding your YouTube video. It was a bit difficult to view because the person who did the filming had whatever phone or camera turned the wrong way and, on screen, for your viewers, it was very narrow. Ask that person to turn the phone or camera sideways, that’s a LANDSCAPE view. They had the vertical, up and down, portrait view version. I really love your style, all your Blue Corn recipes. Your delightful personality comes through all your social media posts and I love everything you do. Now, if possible, start writing your COOKBOOK with color photos. I’ll buy it and will probably buy more for special gifts. Additionally, would be delighted to help you promote the cookbook on all my social media pages. Photos of my Bagels will be on Instagram
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