Chef’s Blog
How to Be Healthy By Simply Cooking at Home
Cooking at home is a powerful secret to overall health – and it doesn’t have to be difficult or confusing. More and more research is showing that simply cooking at home more is one of the single greatest things you can do for your health. It helps you lose weight, boosts your immune system, and promotes emotional wellbeing, too. Here’s how to be healthy by making one, simple lifestyle change.
Chef Eric Judges a Chili Cook-off
Cooking competitions are all the rage these days. From baking to grilling, and from age 10 to 70, the passion is seen as the culinary contestants move rapidly through the chaos. As a professional chef, I too, have been on that side of the game more times than I can count. For the last 15 […]
Mama Mia! “Think Outside the Box” in our Homemade Pasta Class!
As a chef, one of the fun things that I really enjoy about food is understanding the “why” behind the product. Certain things, like geography, trade, and culture all contribute to why certain foods, dishes, and even seasonings are used – or scorned – in a recipe. Given that fact that cereal grains form the […]
One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Many of our readers know how much I love to teach – I’ve been doing it for years – but my joy doesn’t come from simply showing others how to cook, it comes from opening doors to students on how much joy and health can come from understanding how to prepare and execute any meal. […]
Dinner at Rustic Canyon
Okay, it’s confession time. I work a lot. As a chef, it’s not unusual to find me in the kitchen 6 or 7 nights a week, and truly rare is the day that goes by without me in the kitchen at all. So it was a pleasure to be able to sneak away one night […]
Thanksgiving and …
By now, grandmothers everywhere have been watching turkey prices fall and younger families have been kicking themselves for buying the same bird two weeks ago for another 50 cents per pound. Family recipes written down on all manner of lined paper, the backs of envelopes, and carefully trimmed from magazine pages during the Kennedy administration […]
Are You Capable of Cooking?
Register for our class now The next session starts on October 9th at 7pm and we have room for you! There comes a time in everyone’s life when they realize they don’t know how to cook. Whether the epiphany strikes in middle school or mid-midlife crisis varies from person to person, but the solution remains the […]
Culinary Dreams Come True at the C-CAP Competition
Photo: Chef Eric judges the finals at the C-CAP competition When there’s good food involved, we like to think everyone’s winning. And this year at the Careers through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP) Culinary Competition, young chefs Adrian Gonzalez and Matthew Sanchez won big! Adrian snagged a $2,700 Culinary Classroom scholarship, and C-CAP gifted Matthew with a $2,700 […]
How to Make Sushi: Filling Up with Fuller House Star Candace Cameron Bure
For some reason, sushi is one of those foods that sports an invisible warning: “Don’t try this at home.” But you really can conquer this Japanese favorite! All you need is a little direction from Chef Eric Crowley – and it’s your lucky day, because you can follow along as he teaches Fuller House star Candace […]