• Informational

    What’s Next?

    Thanksgiving is over, the game has been won (Go BYU) and the last of family has gone home.  What now? Now it’s time to get ready for Christmas!   When the lights on the houses light up  the street and each home has a tree of lights in the window (although a little earlier this year!),  it is time for full-on Christmas celebrations. Time to jump into full swing in the kitchen (all the while doing my homework, of course) making our holiday favorites.  …and this year I will be adding a few new ones to my list.  As my “editor” would likely put it…”enjoy it now kids, because you may never have…

  • Informational

    Let’s Talk Turkey

    This is the season for thanksgiving and for me, I am thankful for my life!  I am thankful for new opportunities and a fresh start every 24 hours to create new memories, new possibilities.  I am thankful for my family and their unwavering support of me through my journey of culinary school.  I am thankful for food, good food most of all! Enough about me- well, maybe just a little more! For the past 20 years or so I have been cooking some part of the Thanksgiving dinner.  About 10 years ago I decided I was grown up enough to try cooking the turkey.  Through many trials and errors I have struggled to…

  • Recipes

    A little of this and some of that!

    According to my “editor”, it was a good thing I didn’t try to post anything too substantial the other day.  His words to me as I handed off my last article were, “It’s a good things you’re going to bed!”  A definite indicator that much of my post probably didn’t make much sense or I was too cranky to deal with any longer.  Either way, I got a good night of sleep and now I can share a surprisingly favorite dish from class.  It doesn’t sound like much but it was a hit with us all! As I have told you before, Chef Brian is a genius in the kitchen. …

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