Category Archives: Chef Kelly

chef kelly’s baaack! great summer party food…

Can’t believe how fast time flies.  A lot has happened since last post including a puppy shower/housewarming party at the house where with some help, I put together a lunch menu for ~40 people at the house.  Below are some … Continue reading

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What to do the first week of being laid off. Cook!

I should be updating my blog more often, especially when technically, I should now have a lot more free time.  Some big events since last time which can be said in few words. – I have no job. I got … Continue reading

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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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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

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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