How about some fish to start out this week’s specials. Wild fish and seafood are good to have at least once a week. Cod is a really good price and would be good with this recipe, or you could use the Baked Mahi Mahi recipe, or the Coconut Milk Chicken recipe. It’s a really versatile…
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!
Fried Pasta and Frittata
After reading my weekly The City Cook™ Newsletter, I did a little reality check, and thought it might be a good time to add a few notes about being a home cook everyday. Since I love all things having to do with food, sometimes I forget not everyone is like that. Even if I’m just…
Southwest Pork Loin (Slow Cooker)
In our house, we love all things pork. Luckily, pork is often on special at the grocery store. Southwest Pork Loin is all the Tex-Mex flavors that are our favorites. Loin, butt, shoulder, and country rib cuts all work in this recipe. Just a reminder that when posts are no longer on the home page,…
Baked Spaghetti Sauce
Thought for the week: Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. –Albert Einstein Just a few more pictures from Hawaii. We kayaked and swam with the spinner dolphins one day. They live in the bay where we stayed. We had to say a final farewell to…
Fall Garden
You’re looking at my weekend project, planting our fall garden. I know it seems a bit ambitious to plant this variety of seeds, but I don’t plant a lot of any one thing. I just want to make sure I have a harvest of something, and if I put enough out there, something’s bound to…