This is a great main course, and really versatile. For a special meal, when you have company make it with smaller potatoes and serve them as a side. If you don’t have a small toaster oven, it’s a good investment. It’s perfect for small portions and won’t heat the whole house. The combinations for stuffing…
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!
Cooking For One
One of my readers reminded me, I don’t really have specific recipes for cooking for one. Dishes that are simple to do, without a lot of leftovers. I know it’s easy to cook a little larger amounts and freeze in portion size, but realistically some of us will never take it out of the freezer…
Tomatoes
Tomatoes are the red gold of the garden. A lot of people have bumper crops this year. They are slowing down with the heat, but we still have another week or two of fresh tomatoes for sure. If we’re lucky a couple of the plants may stay alive for a fall harvest. After the harvest…
Apple Butter Coffee Cake
There’s just nothing better than a great coffee cake, and this is it. Jessica and I collaborated on this recipe. There were ingredients that needed to be used, and I like for sweets to have some redeeming qualities, if possible. This one worked perfectly. It’s moist and delicious. And Dot gave it the stamp of…
Eggplant with Garlic
We’re harvesting a little eggplant now and this is our favorite recipe for it. It’s the same recipe I use for kohlrabi. You’ll love this as a side, on crostini, or for an amazing vegetarian main course, on pasta with roasted tomatoes and parmesan. PrintEggplant with Garlic Ingredients1/4 cup olive oil 2 medium eggplant, cut…