The recipes at the lodge this week have been some of the proven favorites, including twice baked potatoes, garlic green beans, smoked pork, and beef tenderloin. However, at home, we’re still working on desserts. We still have loads of pecans, and “the guys” wanted me to make a pecan cobbler. It’s a delicious diversion from…
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!
Nutella Cake
A friend of my brother’s sent me this recipe. It is so easy and so scrumptious. I’ve made a couple of adjustments in the original recipe which were heartily approved by my tasting committee!! My cousin needs calories, so I’ve been making a lot more desserts lately. Of course, the rest of us could do without them,…
Dove Season at the Lodge
It’s the beginning of dove season at the lodge, so I’m cooking for a week. My brother is helping, because I managed to cramp my back on that 3 day drive home from California. For the first night, we made garlic mashed potatoes, Cream Spinach, Oven Steak, and garlic bread. I’ve started using frozen whole leaf…
Blackberry Peach Cobbler
My brother and cousin went up to Dallas for a doctor’s appointment, and on the way home, stopped at the farmer’s market in downtown Dallas, and brought back some great finds. The blackberries were huge, sweet, and perfect for a luscious blackberry cobbler. We added some peaches to make the cobbler big enough for all…
To Cedar Plank or Not To Cedar Plank
You could not have convinced me, before today, that cedar planking really made a significant difference in the taste of the food cooked on it. I got a large fillet of salmon and made the Herb Salmon recipe, with half the fillet on the cedar plank, and half just on a baking sheet. I cooked…