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To Be A Chef…

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buy Pregabalin online usa I add the finishing garnish to my client’s cranberry and orange glazed chicken thighs. A mountain of dirty dishes leers at me from the sink — the second mountain for this personal chef client, fourth mountain for the day — when her adorable, trumpet-toting middle schooler saunters into the palatial kitchen from the equally palacial three-car garage. 

El Retén “I’ve decided I want to be a chef,” they proclaim, plopping onto a seat at the island, their bags and instrument clattering to the counter.

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Weeknight Slow Cooker Chicken and Corn Enchiladas

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One of my favorite culinary challenges is figuring out ways to turn complex multi-part recipes that would normally take several hours to create  into meals that can easily be pulled together on a week night to feed the starving masses. And that is exactly what this enchilada recipe does.

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Soft Boiled Eggs Breakfast of Champions

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Occasionally I go through periods of time…we’ll call them phases…where I need to remember what’s truly important to me. It can be very easy for me to let things like my own expectations of myself, my contrived idea of what it is that I “should” be doing in life, my self-judgement get in the way of what’s actually real and right in front of me.

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The Great Cake Experiment Part 3 – Layered, Not Stirred

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There are few things more impressive than a beautifully crafted layer cake embellished with frosting rosettes, fresh fruit, and  flowers. Even an eight inch layer cake can be a enough to stop appreciative guests and party goers in their tracks, with mouths agape and eyes in awe.

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The Great Cake Experiment Part 2 – Buttercream Bonanza

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I’m six years old and I have just taken a gargantuan bite of a frosting encrusted slice of purple-winged-roller-skate shaped cake. I’ve chosen to have my birthday party at the skating rink this year, and after soaring deftly around the rink for lap after lap to the sounds of Baby Got Back, Achy Breaky Heart, My Lovin’ – You’re Never Gonna Get It, and the like (it’s 1992, after all) that bite of cake is pure heaven.

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