by Chef Todd | Apr 16, 2014 | Holidays Cooking Tips
Chocolate Easter Eggs that you buy in the store have questionable chocolate quality. I’m a chocolate fiend, I could have Chocolate At Every Meal, and just as I always assure the source of ALL my food, the same is true for Easter chocolate. I don’t want...
by Chef Todd | Dec 19, 2013 | Holidays Cooking Tips
New holiday traditions are being created in my house with Koloa Coconut Rum. Bananas Foster is easy, fun, entertaining, and even tastier with coconut rum. This dish was created in New Orleans originally, but food is globally mobile. The history of food is filled with...
by Chef Todd | Dec 13, 2013 | Holidays Cooking Tips
My friends at the Koloa Rum Company are helping me to put some Hawaiian attitude into my cold Northern holidays this year with their Kauai Coconut Rum. It’s inspired me to change my usual holiday fare and bring the flavors of the Islands into my home.
by Chef Todd | Dec 3, 2013 | Holidays Cooking Tips
She’s no good for you, that Swiss Miss. She may seem all sweet and warm, but she’s a fake. She’s had some work done, full of chemicals and preservatives. How could she do that to you? With the cold of Winter upon us, I can think of no better way to...
by Chef Todd | Nov 25, 2010 | Cooking Classes, Holidays Cooking Tips
A potluck party can be a food nightmare. As a professional Chef and caterer, few things offend my culinary senses more than the holiday potluck party. With hot items going cold, badly portioned and picked-through platters, nacho dip next to brownies, and...
by Chef Todd | Nov 23, 2010 | Holidays Cooking Tips
Since thanksgiving cooking planning starts at your desk and not your stove, you may not have any food remaining after the meal. To reduce wasted time, money, and food, this is the best approach. Do you start thinking about uses for leftover turkey as soon as the meal...