Before you say ick, at least look at the picture! It’s a dense and delicious, European style cake. Try serving it Roasted Figs and Walnuts. PrintPolenta Fig Cake Prep Time: 20 minutesCook Time: 40 minutes Yield: Serves 6-8 Ingredients4 large egg yolks 2/3 cup sugar 1/8 teaspoon salt 2 cups whole milk 1/4 cup cognac…
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!
Best Deer Deterrent
For those of you who have followed my problems with the deer eating everything, I think I’ve stumbled onto a fairly simple, and cheap solution. It’s not pretty, but it seems to work, and certainly is light years ahead of using mountain lion urine, and having to smell that in your yard!! We have an…
Roasted Figs and Walnuts
Summer harvests are great, and now figs are in, and we’re fortunate to have friends that have 3 huge trees. I harvested a lot of ripe figs, too many to use all at once, so I decided to roast some, then put them in jars to use later. All the figs that I harvested were…
Nacho Jalapeño Poppers
If you love nachos, like I do, you’re gonna love this recipe. I could easily eat the whole pan. I altered Kathy’s recipe for Pepper Poppers a little, and came up with an incredible recipe, to help use up all the jalapeños my father-in-law just gave me! PrintNacho Jalapeño Poppers Total Time: 30 minutes Yield:…
Honey Mustard Chicken with Balsamic Sauce
I wanted to do this recipe, mainly for the sauce – it’s so delicious, and goes with chicken, pork, beef, or fish. The picture is of chicken breast tenders. Let everyone think you’ve worked for hours to prepare this! It’s fast, and very impressive. The recipe to make the tenders is similar to the one…