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Cooking with Collette: Lightened Up Mexican Cooking

May 17, 2023 at 6:00 pm - 7:30 PM
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May 17 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

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Join Chef Collette Haw in the Nutrition Theatre for a fiesta, where you’ll learn how to make and sample three delicious recipes!

Love chips, salsa, guacamole, tacos and quesadillas? Us too! But loving these foods too much (and too often) isn’t great for our overall health and wellbeing. Good news! We’re going to introduce you to lightened up, fresher versions of some of your favorite Mexican-inspired dishes.

Join Chef Collette Haw, a classically trained Culinary Institute of America graduate with a passion for seasonal, sustainable cooking, in the Nutrition Theatre for a fiesta, where you’ll learn how to make and sample the following recipes: Black Bean Salad, Chicken Street Tacos, and Avocado & Shrimp Ceviche.

This program is presented by Chef Collette Haw and hosted by the Winter Park Health Foundation.

Cancelling Your Reservation: In order to receive a full refund, participants must cancel their program registration at least 72 hours prior to the scheduled start of the program. Center for Health & Wellbeing’s Refund Policy >>>

About the Presenter:  

Chef Collette Haw is a classically trained Culinary Institute of America graduate. With a passion for seasonal, sustainable cooking, Chef Haw approaches her cooking with a passion for blending comfort-food-gone-healthy and ‘food as medicine’ philosophies.

Chef Haw spent several years operating her own successful meal delivery service out of Longwood—Collette’s Clean Eats—and as a private chef to a celebrity family in Atlanta before launching Nourish Coffee Bar + Kitchen at the Center for Health & Wellbeing. For its first three years in operation, she created the café’s beloved seasonal menus. Now a new mom, Chef Haw is returning to her passion of recipe development for local businesses and organizations in Central Florida.

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