Delicious Meals For You!

People are asking to read not only about the service, but the food, on the Personal Chef, LLC web site. Here are some photos I have taken of dishes I make frequently for my customers, and for my own household. I'll add more photos as I cook up more food and remember to take pictures of the food before I eat it!

This is a popular dish, Black and White Beans With Orzo. The beans are cooked with cumin; the orzo is cooked with curry; and steamed vegetables are mixed in with the orzo. The taste is so delicious and yet light, you just keep eating forkful after forkful. It's hard to stop! But hey, it's only 294 calories per serving with 3.2 grams of fat and 473 mg of sodium, so eat up!

The dish on the left is extremely popular, and it's one of my favorites. It's Eggplant with Brown Cumin Rice. The delicious part is really the feta and the goat cheese, oh, and the cumin, of course. This dish has a wonderful greek flavor, the texture of it is excellent, and it freezes and reheats very well. One recipe makes six good-size servings. I really think I could eat this for dinner every day and not get tired of it.

Clearly I am not a food photographer, as sampled by my real live hot slice of Vegetable Lasagna, shown on the right. However, rest assured that I ate this piece of lasagna as soon as the photo was taken. No cold fake models of perfect-looking food here!

I make my vegetable lasagna with spinach, mushrooms, cottage cheese, zucchini and summer squash, tomatoes, red wine, parmesan and mozzarella cheese. For Personal Chef service I layer the filling with no-boil lasagna noodles. That means you can microwave the thawed dish or bake it in the oven for about 20 minutes and the noodles are soft and quite edible! I have taken this lasagna from the freezer to the microwave and been very happy with the results. It's 289 calories per serving, with 8.2 grams of fat. Not bad!

Sample Menus

You can view menus I used for one customer's service for a whole year. At the bottom of each menu is a link to the next menu.

A sample menu for a potential customer service is shown below. This sample menu is for six dinners and 20 lunches. These dinners will feed 3 adults, and the lunches are packaged as single servings.

Remember, I will provide you with reheating instructions and I can also give you nutritional information on each meal, if you want!

Sample Menu
Service Date: 10/29/2002
Baked Sea Scallops with Feta Cheese
Storage
Servings
Sea Scallops baked in a Fresh White Wine Tomato Herb Sauce topped with Feta Cheese
Fresh Serve
3
Cheese Stuffed Shells with Sun-Dried Tomato and Basil Cream Sauce
Storage
Servings
Large Pasta Shells filled with Ricotta, Mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses and topped with a
Sun-dried Tomato Basil Cream Sauce
Freezer
6
Parmesan Bread Strips
Baguette broiled with Parmesan Butter
Vegetable Shepherd's Pie
Storage
Servings
Vegetable Casserole filled with Onions, Carrots, Corn, Green Beans, Peas, Tomatoes and
Kidney Beans topped with Garlic Mashed Potatoes and Cheddar Cheese
Freezer
6
Orzo and Portobello Mushroom Casserole
Storage
Servings
Orzo with Portobello and White Mushrooms, Sun-dried Tomatoes and Leeks
Freezer
3
Chick Pea and Feta Salad
Storage
Servings
Chick peas with scallions, feta cheese, tomatoes, fresh parsley, red wine vinegar and Kalamata olives.
Freezer
10
Tabouli
Storage
Servings
Bulgur wheat, fresh parsley, diced tomatoes, scallions, mint, olive oil, lemon juice, and Kalamta olives.
Freezer
10

Lori Doyle • Personal Chef
lori@personalchef-llc.com
324 3rd Street,
Troy, NY 12180
Ph: 518-286-1650