Rob Dretler, Atlanta, GA

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Create This Comforting Chicken Pot Pie Meal at Home
A comfort food classic during the dead of winter, this chicken pot pie with drop biscuits from our ranch chefs is sure to warm your insides up. It’s perfect post ski or snowshoe and even better shared with friends. Try swapping the chicken for wild game like venison or elk. If you like this recipe,…
January 16, 2025
Whip Up These Matcha Grinch Cookies for the Holidays
If you’ve been to the ranch during the Christmas season, you know what a spectacle our cookie table is at the Christmas feast! Melissa really pulls out all the stops. New this year, she’s created a fun take on a matcha cookie using browned butter and white chocolate chips dubbing them Grinch cookies. They’re sure…
December 18, 2024
Add This Warm Gingerbread Cake to Your Holiday Menu
This dark, moist gingerbread cake is a favorite of guests at the Vista Verde Ranch in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, where it’s cut into rounds and set on a pool of custard sauce. You can make the cake up to 2 days ahead; cool, cover, and store airtight at room temperature. Ingredients for the cake: 1…
November 23, 2024
Make This Quick and Easy Fire Roasted Salsa
We enjoyed 70-degree weather and sunny blue skies all the way until October 16 this year. With those warm temperatures came an extended growing season for us here in the mountains which meant one thing: More tomatoes! If you’re also wondering what to do with all your late-harvest garden tomatoes, Chef Ben shows us how…
October 21, 2024