Chef Recipes
Easy Truffle Risotto recipe
I had the pleasure of testing a new recipe for Angela McKeller’s podcast show Kick Back Kook.
The last recipe I had tried was a real winner (the best Chicken Pot Pie on the planet) and this recipe is no different. Along with this one of the tastiest Romaine Salad recipes I’ve tasted, I was able to discover new ingredients like white truffle oil and white balsamic vinegar.
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New way of eating cornmeal
I’ve really only eaten cornmeal a few ways: Italian polenta, as a savoury Greek dessert, in cornbread and corn muffins.
I still remember when I explained an Italian recipe to a former colleague, she just looked at me and said, “That’s not polenta, you’re describing a recipe for grits”. I had never heard of grits until that point, but from her description grits are the North American (or should I say Southern) cousins to the polenta.
I like to eat my polenta with a porridge-like consistency topped with a tomato sauce and I also like to eat it baked.
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International Michelin chefs share their best recipes!
I live in a country where there are NO restaurants that have been awarded Michelin stars.
There are a number of restaurants in the U.S. that have been picked recently as part of the first-ever editions of the Michelin Guide for New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, but the company behind the prestigious guide has yet to find a Canadian restaurant worthy of this honour.
A few years ago, I was in London and I ate at a 3-star Michelin restaurant for brunch and ended up dropping close to $200 (with the conversion) for a meal that I really didn’t consider to be that outrageous. I remember leaving the restaurant and thinking “there are FAR better restaurants in Canada”.
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Best Chicken Pot Pie recipe on the planet!
***This Chicken Pot Pie recipe is insanely delicious! AND I have the full recipe for you at the end of this post!***
Are chicken pot pies healthy? No they are NOT if you are buying them frozen in a store!
If you make your own chicken pot pie recipe and you use good quality ingredients and don’t eat the entire pie in one sitting, then YES they pass the Eat Smart Age Smart test!
I haven’t eaten a store bought chicken pot pie in so many years I’ve lost track.
When I was 17-18, I worked for a doctor and my job was to retype nutritional food value of foods on his MAC computer. I remember typing mindlessly until I hit the salt content in a typical frozen chicken pot pie and I remember being so shocked that when I got home that night after work, I declared that I would NEVER eat chicken pot pie that came from the frozen section of a supermarket ever again … and I haven’t.
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Do you want to become a trained chef?
Are you looking to go back to school to train to become a chef?
Not long ago on CNN, they had a feature about a town in the U.S. that used to specialize in a particular manufacturing expertise but because of the recession the plants in the area had shut down or moved their operation and business to China.
Most people in the town had made the decision to go back to school to study to become chefs!
These people are onto something because …
… “according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, chefs, cooks, and food preparation workers held nearly 3.1 million jobs in 2006. And here’s a tip on where the culinary careers are — meals-to-go (e.g., prepared foods sections of grocery stores) and contract food service (e.g., catering). These healthy culinary careers are projected to grow much faster than the average for all occupations through 2016!!!”
If you are also looking for a culinary career, you’ll have to find a good culinary school!
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