Last week, I had a one day break in my cooking schedule, and decided to enjoy a little shopping trip to Waco. High on my list of things to do was have lunch at a fairly new restaurant in Waco, Moroso Wood Fired Pizzeria. It’s hard to believe that on Bosque Blvd in Waco, Texas…
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!
Texas Chocolate Sheet Cake
When I was growing up, we lived in Texas twice, and that’s when my mom got her recipe for Texas Chocolate Sheet Cake. Luckily, she passed it on to me. It’s the cinnamon that helps make it irresistible. I don’t make it very often, because I can eat a lot of it! We made this…
Cream Corn
If you want a simple, fabulous side for the holidays, or dinner tonight, cream corn is it! A friend told me about this dish, and I haven’t seen anyone yet who didn’t love it. It’s a regular at the lodge this year. The first clue to how easy this is is step one – get…
Marfa
It is fabulous to have a long, cool weekend in Marfa, Alpine, Ft Davis area. Lodging is quite pricy, but we stayed in a great house through Airbnb. We came for a musical (interpretive!) performance at the Marfa Ballroom, Pancho Villa from a safe distance. The music was really amazing. Marfa is becoming like the…
Scrambled Egg Casserole
It’s opening weekend of hunting season, and I’ve started cooking at the lodge again. The first morning I made way too may scrambled eggs. So, I put the leftovers in a half-steamtable pan, and decided I had to figure out a way to use them on the second day. And voila, scrambled egg casserole was born….