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Chefs Catalog Retail Store offers a great variety of services for our customers. Aside from selling great high quality kitchen products, we also offer fun and educational cooking classes instructed by chefs from local Colorado Springs restaurants. This blog is a chance for participants of these cooking classes to share their ideas and tips with others who have attended classes. For those of you who have not yet attended classes, this blog just might help you decide which classes you would enjoy most. All cooking classes are posted both under classes at My Hub Central and Northwest and on our website www.chefscatalog.com. Please continue to check this blog weekly, as it will be updated after each cooking class.

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Contributed by: Angela Valencia on 1/16/2008

Welcome to Chefs Catalog is Cooking blog.

First I would like to introduce myself, Angela Valencia, Culinary Specialist of Chefs Catalog Retail Store. I have been with Chefs for just over a year now and what a great year it has been. I am staff chef and cooking class coordinator, which means I get to have all the fun! I do product and recipe demos on the weekends, instruct some of the classes at Chefs and arrange the cooking class schedules each month.

Next, I would like to thank all of the great chefs we have participating in our cooking classes. Without their participation, creativity and enthusiasm we would not have the program we do today. Again, I send a big THANK YOU for giving us a bit of your time.

I would also like to thank our customers for their continued support of our cooking classes. I hope that you will continue to attend our classes and support our local chefs at their restaurants and businesses.

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Submitted By: Angela Valencia

posted on 4/28/2008 @ 3:17:32 PM

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Chef Keith Theodore of the Charles Court at the Broadmoor brought us a great spring lamb class. With Colorado lamb at hand, he created Lamb Sliders, Lamb loin with ricotta salata and orzo salad and braised lamb shoulder chops with a mustard cream sauce.

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posted on 4/28/2008 @ 3:15:44 PM

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Chef Gary Jones of Blue Sage Catering returned for an excellent class on Crepes. The class got hands on and made their own crepes to fill with wonderful fillings like berries and mascarpone, white chocolate mango mousse and more.

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posted on 4/28/2008 @ 3:14:30 PM

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The monthly wine Pairing, was Italian Wine and Food with Chef Jeff Law of the Colorado Steak Company. Using the recipes from "Molto Italiano", Mario Batali's book and some of the Batali line of cookware he created fabulous Panini of arugula and fontina, Clams Oraganato, Devil's Chicken and Braised rabbit were paired with excellent Italian wines.

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posted on 4/28/2008 @ 3:12:27 PM

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In Pad Thai with Vanna Zago, we enjoyed Galangal Soup, and different varieties of Pad Thai, and red curry. A great and warm meal for the day of our spring snow storm.

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posted on 4/28/2008 @ 3:11:24 PM

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Dinner by the Dockside with Chef Thomas English of English Dockside Seafood and Grill brought along his prize winning Clam Chowder along with Grilled Sea Bass, Gulf Shrimp and finished the class with an amazing and beautiful Red Velvet Cake. Great Grilling ideas abound in this class.

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posted on 4/28/2008 @ 3:09:59 PM

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Looking Back through the month of April, the classes were all outstanding. I would like to thank all the Chefs that participated this month! Chef Doug Blazavich of the Cliff House instructed a great hands on class making pasta. The class made lobster ravioli, Chipotle Buffalo tortelloni and Chicken Tetrazzini Stuffed Canneloni.

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posted on 4/7/2008 @ 4:00:08 PM

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Kicking off the Month of April, Chef Ben Hoffer, formerly of the Craftwood Inn brought us a great class on the basics of sauces. Chef Hoffer covered the 5 mother sauces and taught us all how to then create many other great ideas in the kitchen. To finish off the class, Chef Hoffer treated us to Asparagus with Hollendaise Sauce and Rib Eye Steak with Espagnole Sauce. Chef Hoffer plans to return this fall for more classes. Until then, you can visit him in his new kitchen at Cafe 36 at the Fine Art Center. Cafe 36 plans to open on May 1st.

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posted on 4/7/2008 @ 3:54:20 PM

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The 4-week Beginners Cooking Class ended in March as well. Participants learned knife skills, food safety, and cooking techniques in this class. The menus were created to give them all a chance to learn different techniques of cooking like saute, boiling, baking, frying and grilling. Each series has different menus, and this one included roasted pork loin, corned beef and cabbage, surf and turf and roasted chicken. Look for the next Beginners cooking class scheduled for Wednesdays in June.

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posted on 4/7/2008 @ 3:51:22 PM

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Butcher's Block with Chef Scott Savage of the Cliff House was extraordinary. Participants learned how to clean racks of lamb and beef and pork tenderloin before Chef Savage turned them into great dishes like Beef Wellington, Ginger Pork and Rack of lamb two ways, one with a Pistachio Crust and the other was Herb Crusted. We also sampled the Cliff House Chateau Briand.

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posted on 4/7/2008 @ 3:48:58 PM

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Healthy for you and Tasty Too was brought to us by Jessica Brenner, RD and Andrea Houk, RN of the Diabetes Care Center in Colorado Springs. With a tasty menu of Cilantro Lime Chicken with Pineapple and Mango Salsa, Green Rice and Black Beans and a Chocolate Mousse for dessert, you would never notice what was missing. Jessica and Andrea focus on carb counting for those with diabetes and heart healthy ways of cooking. Jessica and Andrea will return in May for a Gourmet Pizza class, again with the focus of how those with diabetes can still eat great meals and stay healthy.

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