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Author Archives: chefkelly
Out with the old – In with the new – New class at UCLA – Restaurant Operations
A quick update as I head to hit the books! I enrolled in UCLA’s extension class in…<<<drum roll>>> Restaurant Operations & Management. It’s once a week night class from 7-10pm – I know it’s late – but it’s really gotten … Continue reading
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Tagged restaurant management, restaurant operations, ucla, ucla extension
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Korean street food recipe – Kimchi Pancakes
In a rather odd-weathered week here in LA where it’s been storming wind and rain the last two days, there’s no better way to stay indoors than frying up some golden-crisp kimchi pancakes to share with your loved honeys. Of … Continue reading
Baby, it’s cold outside…perfect for some white chicken chili to warm your soul…
Even though we’ve been spoiled with low to mid 70s here in LA, there’s something about the winter “air” that’s a little blue, a little gloomy – a perfect excuse for making some comfort dishes. One of my favorite is … Continue reading
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Tagged comfort food recipe, white chicken chili
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Snapshot of Holiday Cooking pix – Dumplings, Sweet Potatoes, Bokchoy and all over the place
It was my birthday yesterday and my perfect, best-in-the-universe-husband surprised me with a Macbook Pro and so here I am with a debut of blogging on my own Mac. Wordpress looks a little different and I am sure I have … Continue reading
Nancy Silverton, the Bread Queen – learning Italian cooking from the best…
Inaugural Mozza cooking class of 11 eager-beaver, hand-raising (that would be me:)), ravenous foodie students gathered on one weeknight of Nov 12 at the impressive, fully-equipped kitchen at Mozza with the one and only Nancy Silverton – with pix to prove it;) … Continue reading
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Tagged cooking class, fennel, holiday recipe, italian thanksgiving, Matt Molina, nancy silverton, osteria mozza, roulade, turkey recipe
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Cooking class at Mozza tonite! Inaugural class with co-owner Nancy Silverton and Chef Matt Molina
Can’t wait! Inaugural cooking class at Mozza2go, of the infamous Nancy Silverton of Osteria Mozza and chef Matt Molina. I so lucked out – was put on a waiting list and got a call late last night of a cancellation … Continue reading
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Tagged chef matt molina, cooking class, italian, mozza2go, nancy silverton, osteria mozza, thanksgiving
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Cheap dinner- Stretch your dollar with one chicken, three very different recipes.
Make one damn good roasted chicken. Get three tasty n very different meals out of it. Your dinner worries are half over with three days of chicken. I promise you won’t be tired of chicken as each recipe is totally … Continue reading
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Tagged chicken enchilada, chicken fried rice, chicken recipes, roasted chicken
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Converting oatmeal haters with quick-n-easy Irish steel-cut oatmeal recipe
Mmm..aahhh~ It’s starting to smell like fall. No leaves changing color here in SoCal but definitely feeling the chilly mornings and nights and with Halloween around the corner, it’s definitely fall. And what better way to start your morning than … Continue reading
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Tagged breakfast recipe, healthy breakfast, irish steel cut, oatmeal, slow cooker recipe
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Check out this video! I want to have fun at work too! Backstreet Boys’ I want it that way~~~Office-style
When is this corporate thing going to get better?!?…
Bring zing to your chicken recipe…Chicken Marbella (tribute to Ms. Sheila Lukins)
On my way to work driving down the ever-treacherous demonic 405 in LA, I heard a clip on KCRW. A listener, an expat in a far-away land, perhaps Sweden or even Iceland wrote in, saying how uncanny it was that at the … Continue reading
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Tagged arugula, capers, chicken marbella, chicken recipe, prunes, sheila lukins, smashed potato
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