chef

September 30, 2009

• Fissler Host a Chef Event

  Several week ago Love to Cook, a local retailer in Logan Utah, hosted a chef event featuring chef Lorna Sass (a James Beard award winning chef) with Fissler products.  Lorna is considered America's leading authority on vegan and pressure cooking. 
  Lorna hosted three sold out events at Love to Cook and demonstrated the Fissler Blue Point pressure cookers to prepare special foods for the attendees.  Love to Cook reported sold over $4,000 in products during the three events over the weekend.  You can be sure there will be more Fissler chef events in the future.  Look for one in your area. (…)

September 6, 2009

• Fast Food: No It Is All About Slow Food

  Everyone knows about "fast food" and there are several publications and a few politicians stating that they have been and are ruining our diets and our health. (…)

August 22, 2009

• Has America Forgotten How To Cook

  I see more and more articles and assessments that Americans are eating at home more and going out to dinner less. That fast food places are seeing declines in business for the first time in decades. (…)

July 22, 2009

• Quality Cookware for Professional Chefs and Chef Wannabees

  Professional chefs have proven to themselves that quality cookware is a big factor in producing quality meals. (…)

May 27, 2009

• Copper Cookware - The Other Precious Metal for Your Kitchen

  What are the most precious metals that nearly every one imagines? I know you will most likely say that gold and platinum are the metals that have the most real value. (…)

November 28, 2008

• Sauce Tips for the Home Chef

  Sauces can be one of the most intimidating areas of cooking to the home chef. Master Chefs actually specialize in this area and are called sauciers (pronounced sauce-ee-aa). (…)

November 25, 2008

• Gobble, Gobble: Time for Turkey

  How do you cook your turkey? Board of the same bird preparation? Well let’s take flight and explore the dynamic world of poultry for that special dinner. (…)

November 12, 2008

• Personal Chef: Gluten Free and Vegetarian

  I have friends who are occasional personal chefs.  That is they do the meal planning, shopping, and preparation for a family or group for a period of time.  Frequently, this is for a group on vacation at Lake Tahoe but also for families in the area who are too bush or too something to want to undertake the daily routine of making dinner.  I have persuaded them to  share some of their thoughts and experiences with us every once in awhile.  These will show up in this blog with the Pre-title of Personal Chef.  I hope you enjoy their musings. (…)

November 10, 2008

• The Best Roast Turkey — Every

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  I know a lot of lazy cooks and I know lots of folks who hate to wash dishes but that should not have any impact on preparing a superb turkey dinner. (…)

November 7, 2008

• Cookware @ YSK

  Since this blog is more focused on events in the realm of Your Smart Kitchen and activities that make meal and party preparation easier and more fun, I wanted a place to have product reviews, comparisons and comments plus some commentary on topics in general. (…)

September 11, 2008

• Gormet Dinner with Friends

  We have a group of friends who get together about every three months for a "gourmet dinner." Most of us would not be considered gourmet chefs of course but we do put together some pretty terrific meals. (…)

September 4, 2008

• Green Bean Salad

  As Sumer ends and we move into early Fall, there are some really good vegetables that can be used for salads to complement those steaks or ribs prepared on the bar-b-que or smoker. (…)

July 24, 2008

• Wedding Registries — Online better than malls?

  I just returned from having coffee with Hanna, the mobile chef, talking about her writing a newsletter for me. (…)

July 14, 2008

• Gourment Group - Sunday Brunch

  This month our gourmet group decided to do a brunch instead of the normal dinner. The meal selection was to be from the Essentials of Breakfast and Brunch by Williams and Sonoma. (…)

July 11, 2008

• Gourmet Group – Not as hard as it sounds

  We get together with several other couples with the purpose of preparing some special dinners and we started calling these gatherings a “Gourmet Dinner” group. (…)

July 7, 2008

• Getting back in the Groove

  It has been awhile since my last post anywhere.  The ChefWannabee blog was over in the Wordpress space and it deserved its own place in the blogging world.  This took longer than it should have to move it and get it reconfigured.  But then I am finding many activities are taking longer and are a bit more difficult that I originally considered. (…)

May 29, 2008

• Online Retail

  Forrester (a technology research organization) published an analysis of the retail market recently. (…)

May 19, 2008

• ChefWannabee

  This is the blog associated with Your Smart Kitchen, your online source for quality cookware, bakeware cutlery, appliances and more.
  It is our intent to make cooking both easier and more fun. (…)