How to Cook Meals in Advance

This is a video that was recently produced for About.com’s Frugal Living Website. A few months back, a producer from about.com approached me about shooting a video about what it’s like to be a Personal Chef, and while we were shooting, she asked me to share some tips for home cooks about preparing food in advance and artful use of the freezer to keep the house stocked with homemade food. This video is the result.

You can see the full video and post at About.com

ReMARKable Palate LIVE #1

Chef Mark Tafoya answers your cooking questions LIVE on Ustream. Today, we talk about how to make a perfect risotto, fixing a tomato soup that’s too thin, cooking crispy hash browns, and much more.

The Ustream channel is at www.ustream.tv/channel/chefmark (for upcoming LIVE shows)

Theme Song: “Hit It & Quit It”, by B.D. Lenz www.bdlenz.com

ReMARKable Palate LIVE is a production of The Culinary Media Network. www.culinarymedianetwork.com

ReMARKable Palate #204: Daily Cooking Tips Redux

You may or may not know that I do another podcast called Chef Mark’s Daily Cooking Tips, which I record on my iPhone and upload via a great app called AudioBoo. It’s an almost daily 3 minute podcast with a short and easy tip to make your cooking better, from foundational techniques to simple recipes for weeknight eating, or dinner party tips. On today’s show I thought I’d gather a few of these tips to show you what you might be missing.

Theme Song: “Go Fish”, by Big Money Grip, from the Podsafe Music Network.

ReMARKable Palate is a production of The Culinary Media Network. www.culinarymedianetwork.com

Subscribe to Chef Mark’s Daily Cooking Tips Podcast in iTunes

Subscribe to Chef Mark’s Daily Cooking Tips Podcast in iTunes

Description

In this class, we’ll explore 4 different ways to cook fish: en papillote (cooked in a paper packet), broiled with a persillade crust, steamed, and poached in olive oil. These foundational techniques will open your cooking up to many wonderful and easy preparations for fish which are virtually foolproof, resulting in moist succulent fish every time.

Schedule

May 26, 2009

• Tue   6-9 PM

Pricing Details

$50 for a 3-4 hour class, covering 4 different cooking techniques for fish. The cost of ingredients is included in the fee. This is a participatory class. Students will get to do some hands-on cooking, and sample the finished products!

Location

• ReMARKable Palate
• 117 W 17th St , 3 C
  New York, NY 10011 | Manhattan/Chelsea
• Please call 917-405-0088 to reserve your spot, or to request future cooking class topics.

See this listing on TeachStreet.com

CMN Video: Chef Trevor Simms Shellfish Bowl

Chef Trevor Simms of the 44 North Restaurant at the Marriott Harbourfront Hotel in Halifax, Nova Scotia shows us his signature 44 North Shellfish Bowl, which showcases the local lobster and Digby Scallops.

A production of The Culinary Media Network. www.culinarymedianetwork.com

CMN Video: Indonesian Cooking – Pepes Ikan dan Udang

Chef Mark’s Indonesian Adventure concludes with a trip to the Wayan Cooking School in Bali, where Chef Mark learns how to make Pepes Ikan dan Udang, or fish and shrimp steamed in a banana leaf. The most aromatic blend of spices makes this dish amazing! (And yes, that is prodigious perspiration on Chef Mark’s shirt! It was HOT!)

A production of The Culinary Media Network. www.culinarymedianetwork.com

See Chef Mark’s Entire Adventure here:

Here are all my Daily Cooking Tips rounded up in one convenient weekly post! You can subscribe to receive my daily audio cooking tips automatically via iTunes.

Cutting Boards 12.31pm EDT, 17 Apr 2009

Wild Garlic, Ramps & Herbs 05.27pm EDT, 16 Apr 2009

Wine Glasses 08.13pm EDT, 15 Apr 2009

Pastry Perfection 09.59am EDT, 15 Apr 2009

Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs 08.44pm EDT, 13 Apr 2009

Distinguishing Hard Boiled Eggs 04.46pm EDT, 12 Apr 2009

Mise en Place 03.07pm EDT, 12 Apr 2009

We’re happy to announce that Chef Mark is now doing a short daily cooking tips podcast! Many of our listeners have been asking for a show just about cooking, and while a longer form video cooking show is in the works, for now we’re offering a daily audio podcast.

Chef Mark will be recording a brief, under 2 minute, tip each day. This podcast is not nearly as produced at the ReMARKable Palate Podcast, nor our videos, just a quick note to help you improve the quality of your home cooking! This will be a separate feed which will NOT be in our full CMN feed (since it’s every day, we don’t want it to overwhelm your feedreader). Just subscribe in iTunes via the link below, or directly to the feedburner feed. Enjoy!

Subscribe to Chef Mark’s Daily Cooking Tips Podcast in iTunes