All Things Chill

Hey everybody! I’ll be hosting the 10 Days of Chocolate in the Bloomingdales San Francisco Demonstration Kitchen leading up to the International Chocolate Salon @ Fort Mason on July 14 & 15th where I’ll be a guest judge! YAY! I’ll drop more deets as the information comes… but for now… think about [...]

During a cooking demonstration, in the presence of a full capacity audience… I burnt toasted bread…
…twice. OOPS. LOL.
I’m embarassed… but everything else (chorizo in red wine, black olive tapenade and spanish omelette with potatoes and onions) went very well! YAY. Saved by meat! Haha.
I just hope I don’t do the [...]

I did a demonstration 5 or 6 blocks away from work at the beautiful Ferry Building on the Embarcadero… representing the **Bloom** and BlinQ, a division of Breville. It was for Gourmet’s Wine Cellar event:
Savor San Francisco’s most exciting wine, cocktails & cuisine – the Gourmet way!
Enjoy fabulous wines and great nibbles from the [...]

Larger (and more cheesy) view here. Sara Moulton, execultive chef of Gourmet magazine and Food Network personality, did a demonstration in my kitchen yesterday. I’ll be hanging out with her and her Chef de Cuisine @ the Ferry building tonite for a big wine function. They cool. Supa chill. She’s [...]

Sauteed chicken, slivered almonds on a bed of farfalle pasta with arugula garlic pesto.
Larger view here. I did a pesto demonstration @ work yesterday, and it was so rewarding to watch the audience say stuffs like “WOW, PESTO IS SO EASY,” & “ZOMG I MAKE PESTO TONITE KTHXBYE.” I didn’t use the regular [...]

Larger view here. What a wonderful human being and an equally amazing chef. Hubert Keller, owner of the very long successful Fleur de Lys and hot property Burger Bar , was the guest chef @ work today. Work. LOL. I love saying that. Chef Keller was incredible. He [...]

Larger picture here. So I’ve showed you my work gear and talked about it extensively in my ViBlogs, but I haven’t really shown you where I work. That kitchen is an honest to goodness dream come true.
You can find a few more pictures in my latest Flickr album here. Here are a [...]