I’m not very excited about the grocery specials this week, so I’m making dishes I’ve been thinking about for a while. When the weather gets bad, or you just can’t take going to the grocery store again, here’s a new make on an old classic pantry meal. I don’t know why I have a thing…
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!
Cheese and Pepper Green Beans
PrintCheese and Pepper Green Beans Total Time: 30 minutes IngredientsGreen Beans Extra virgin olive oil Breadcrumbs Butter Southwest Chipotle Seasoning (or any other with salt and hot pepper) Parmesan InstructionsHeat oven to 350. Place green beans in boiling salted water, and cook to crisp tender stage. Drain and place immediately into ice water to stop…
Fish Loaf with Cheese Sauce
This is a great fish dish to add to your repertoire. Even non-fish lovers, like it, and it’s great for kids. I first started making it when we would go fishing and have a lot of small fillets from bass, blue gill, or perch. Those still work well, but if I haven’t gone fishing, I…
Holiday Leftovers
Just some ideas, if you have leftovers from holiday cooking. Hover your mouse over the recipe name and click on it to go there! For turkey or poultry: Chicken and Spinach Stuffed Peppers Chicken and Dumplings Chicken Tetrazzini Pasta with Chicken and Cream For leftover pork: Pork and chilies – toss chunks of pork…
Multivitamin Use
Happy New Year, here’s looking at you! Thanks for cooking with me. We’ll have more kitchen fun in 2012. There’s been such a controversy about multivitamin use. The newsletter from Harvard School of Public Health has some information worth reading. One of the points the newsletter makes is that we don’t always eat the healthiest…