My kitchen is your kitchen! As a personal chef, I travel all around Massachusetts, New England, and beyond, preparing foods in people’s homes.  I do it all, including

  • Cooking lesson parties
  • Romantic Dinners for Two
  • Small dinner parties, and
  • The classic personal chef service, where I’ll come to your home, and fill up your fridge and freezer with a week’s worth of your choice of entrees and side dishes.

Plus, I teach cooking lessons at Stonewall Kitchen in York, ME, and at Different Drummer’s Kitchen, in Northampton, MA and Albany, NY.

I invite you to roam around my website.  Please contact me with any questions you might have. That’s almost as good as you and me  standing around and chatting about food in your kitchen!

This Week’s Top Six List…Corn on the Cob!

Every week, I’ll cook up a Top Five (or Six) List covering a holiday, a seasonal food item, a fresh food item du jour, or whatever edibles pop into my head. This week, it’s corn on the cob!  due to the wacky Spring weather, we’ve had corn for a few weeks.  To paraphrase my good friend, Tony the Tiger, it’s GREAT!!!!!

  1. You don’t need a full pot of water to cook the corn.  You just have to steam it in approximately 2” of water.  This saves time.  And money.
  2. Cook it for 8-9 minutes.  Anything much longer than that with reduce the corn to a yellow, starchy mess.
  3. Just eat it as it is.  You’ll be shocked that it’s even better without butter, salt, and pepper!
  4. Try grilling the corn.  There are a zillion methods.  Try one.  Almost all of them work, and bring out the sweetness of the corn even more than just steaming it.
  5. Get the freshest corn you can find.  Even if you have to drive 7 hours to get to a farm stand.  It’s worth the effort.
  6. Corn on the cob is my favorite food.  There is no close second.

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Food Network?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!

August 17, 2010

On August 30, I’ll be biting the bullet (not usually considered a food item) and going to NYC to (drum roll, please) audition to be The Next Network Food Star on the Food Network.  Why am I telling you this, rather than just sneaking into the Big Apple?  Because I’m also looking for ideas on [...]

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