What's for Dinner from Karen's Kitchen

Karen Donato

	Format	ISBN	Price
	Paperback (8.25x11)	9781434314659	$ 14.95

What's For Dinner

From

Karen's Kitchen

My cookbook is a fun, unique answer

to the question in almost everyones house,

"What's for Dinner"

Do you usually get the same answers I do?

Anything, I don't care,

Something or Whatever!"

Well - those and more are the

names of the recipes in my cookbook!

So when your family says they want

"Anything"

you can just whip it up!

It's a fun and amusing approach to cooking!

Karen Donato .... I live in Sharon, Pennsylvania with my Husband Michael. We have 2 children and 5 grandchildren who are the joy of our our lives. I learned to cook from my mother, who seemed to always be in the kitchen, and always encouraged my sister and I to help, just as I did with my children and now I do with my grandchildren.

We owned a restaurant called " Mike and Karen’s Luncheonette" until we closed it in 1992. Other than cooking, my passion is sewing, embroidery and quilting, scrapbooking, gardening and tap dancing.

This book came about because like a lot of people I get the same answer when I ask "what would you like for dinner."

The recipes in this book are made up of things I cook for my family and things that I made at our resturant.

Hope you enjoy the humor in the names of the dishes and that you’ll try a few of them yourself.

So next time your family says they want "Anything’s okay " You’ll be able to whip it up.

You can reach me at drdog@nauticom.net

Whats for Dinner?

Anything /aka Firehouse Chicken

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Servings: 6

Ingredients:

2 Chicken Breasts

(cut into 4-6 pieces)

2 cans Cream of Chicken soup

4-6 slices Swiss Cheese

1 large canister of Stove Top Stuffing

butter or margerine

Spray baking dish with cooking spray

Start Layering ingredients

1...Sprinkle a small amount of stuffing mix on bottom of dish to cover

2...Chicken pieces

3...Swiss Cheese slices

4...Stuffing Mix, a generous amount to fill dish

5...Pour on Cream of Chicken soup

6... a couple pats of butter on top

Bake uncovered 35-40 minutes depending on how thick your chicken pieces are.

Serve with

Mashed Potatoes and Gravey

Corn on the cob

This is a favorite dish at my house and my Husband and Son’s firehouse. I hope you like it too.

It doesn’t matter to me /aka Orechette ala donato

Orechette ala donato

Servings: 8

Ingredients:

Sausage(Mild to Hot)

4 cloves garlic chopped

1 bag Fresh Spinach

Orechette Pasta (Hats)

Olive Oil

Red Pepper Flakes

Instructions:

Saute sausage in a medium pan with garlic

Put water on to cook pasta

when sausage is done drain on paper towel and set aside

In the same pan

put enough oil in to cover bottom

saute spinach until tender

add sausage back to the pan

Drain Pasta and place in serving dish

Pour the sausage spinach mixture over the pasta

Drizzle olive oil over top

and sprinkle red pepper flakes ( if you like the heat)

and mix together gently

Serve with:

Salad with mixed greens and Fresh baked bread

This is my husband’s specialty and a favorite of the guys on my husbands turn at the firehouse.