About Me
Welcome to My Kitchen!
I approach cooking with an emphasis on family-style meals and the tastiest ways to eat healthy together! When not in my kitchen, I'm often hiking in the mountains around my home and exploring the best food locations in America. My favorite food is anything shared with friends!
Food as Community
Food has a special ability to bring people together. I often find this in my own life, and I hope you will find that this online community feels just as welcoming as a real kitchen. For me, cooking together builds the best families, relationships, and communities! Let's get cooking together!
Step-by-Step Cooking
I have been cooking for a long time, but that doesn't mean that you need a ton of cooking experience to follow my recipes. I work to make my recipes interesting for advanced cooks and still accessible for beginners. If you ever have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask by sending a message or posting a comment.
Featured Farm|Gnomestead Hollow
I didn't always have a love for mushrooms, in fact as a child I despised them and usually would refuse to eat them, I certainly wouldn't have driven an hour each way so I could visit the farm and harvest them myself, as I did for this episode. Then I realized getting into food as my parents were teaching me and my curiosity about food was expanding, I learned that there is much, much more to the world of mushrooms other than the (in my opinion) almost flavorless typical buttons and portobellos we far too often see on menus and in supermarkets. The mushrooms grown at Gnomestead Hollow are simply the best I have had in all my years as a professional chef. Heck when I was in DC I was trying to figure out how to get these mushrooms shipped to me! So Katey Roshetko and I decided to feature these mushrooms on our show! Click Here to see the 2 recipes we are presenting, Lions Maine Vegitarian "Crab Cakes" and a 1 Skillet Breakfast Mushroom Hash! Both recipes have vegan substitutions as well :)
Featured Recipe|Scampi Pizza
Chef Dale's Scampi Pizza! Look below for this amazing pie you can enjoy at home! Chef Dale and I worked together in DC, He successfully ran 2 of my kitchens as executive chef in our flagship restaurants out of the group of 7, where he developed this killer pizza recipe. We learned a ton from each other, and most importantly formed a friendship to last a lifetime. You can see some of his work here!
Recipes
The BWB - Hot White Chocolate with Pumpkin Pie Mousse
Incredibly easy and DELICIOUS!
Ingredients:
6 cups whole milk
1.5 cup heavy cream
1 T high quality vanilla extract
2 Cups high quality white chocolate chips
2 methods -
Add all ingredients to a crock pot and set to low, stirring every 15 to 20 minutes until all the chocolate is melted and the flavors have fully developed
-OR-
place all ingredients in a
Lion’s Maine Crab Cake, Vegetarian
as Featured on Cookin' in the Mornin'
1 lb fresh young lions mane mushroom, the younger ones have shorter beards, and more meat
¾ cup mayo (sub vegan mayo)
1 cup panko bread crumbs
1 T lemon juice
2 tsp kosher salt
1 tsp black pepper, freshly ground
1 egg (sub 2 T rice flour or vegan flower and 2 T water for vegan)
2 small sweet peppers, diced
1 dash Tabasco or your fa
1 Skillet Breakfast Mushroom Hash, Vegetarian
1 lb fresh young lions mane mushroom, the younger ones have shorter beards, and more meat
¾ cup mayo
1 cup breadcrumbs
1 T lemon juice
2 tsp kosher salt
1 tsp black pepper, freshly ground
1 egg
2 small sweet peppers, diced
1 dash Tabasco or your favorite hot sauce
1 T chopped flat leaf parsley
1 tsp old bay seasoning
Start with the mushroom by tearing into small
Chef Dale's Shrimp Scampi Pizza Recipe
The Dough
- Flour (3.5 cups)
- Salt (1 Tablespoon)
- Sugar (1 Tablespoon)
- Yeast (1 packet) (1/4 cup water) (1/4 T sugar)
- Water (2 cups)
Directions:
- Place two-thirds of the water in a large bowl. In a saucepan or microwave, bring the other third of water to boil, then add it to the cold water in the bowl. This creates the correct temperature for activating yeas
Mushroom Au Poivre
· 1 C your favorite mushrooms, recommend shitake or oyster mushrooms but any will do
· 1 T Butter
· 1 tsp Olive oil
· ¼ tsp beef base
· 2 cloves roasted garlic or fresh, roasted is better flavor (recipe follows)
· 1 shallot, thinly sliced
· ¼ tsp white pepper
· Kosher Salt
· ¼ C cognac or brandy or stock (beef/chicken/vegetable)
· 1 C Heavy Cream
· ½ T fresh cracked black pepper
Place t
Chef Loren’s Key Lime Pie
Pie Filling Ingredients:
- 1 can sweetened condensed milk
- 1/2 cup of lime juice (use bottled lime juice)
- 4 egg yolks
- 1/2 block of softened cream cheese
Crust Ingredients: (Store bought crust works too.)
- 2-3 cups of graham cracker crumbs (depending on desired thickness)
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) of melted butter
- 1/2-1 cup brown sugar*
*Loren says he like to use 2 parts graham crackers, 1 pa