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Chef of the Month Spotlight: Chef Dan's Top Healthy Living Tip!

Chef Dan’s Top Healthy Living Tip

Chef Dan is widely known for his unique take on healthy cooking. Yes, he stays generally healthy by regularly training in martial arts and focusing on living a health-focused lifestyle overall, but the recipes he promotes consistently are designed to be nutritious, delicious, easy to transport or refrigerate as leftovers, and are simple for most recreational cooks to make in their home kitchen.

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Recipe: Roasted Spatchcock Turkey

While we love a traditional Thanksgiving turkey, we’ve become big fans of spatchcocking our turkeys instead. Not only does it cook in half the time, but when you remove the backbone to be able to flatten the turkey and cook it skin side up. This allows the turkey to brown more evenly, creating one delicious, juicy turkey that will please the whole family.

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Spoonfuls BlogJodie Leschuk
THE ART OF PERSONAL MEASUREMENTS

When most of us decide to learn to cook, we typically all start by taking similar steps. We get out a cookbook that was once a family favorite, or we take a cooking class to learn some delicious new recipes that we can later re-create for family and friends.

Then we read the recipes at home and follow the steps exactly. “One teaspoon sugar,” got it covered. “Two heads of lettuce,” purchased and plated.

But sometimes our dish doesn’t turn out the way we had planned. Something just seems a bit “off.” It’s lacking a little flavor or needs a little extra crisp to fit our liking.

And with that… welcome to the world of personal measurements!

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Would You PLEASE Just Learn to Cook?

Before we dive in, here’s a word from our favorite chef, Chef Dan: You mean you don’t know how to cook? Isn’t it about time? With the recent shutdown, it has only reinforced the need for culinary skills. Cooking has been around since humans discovered fire. It was a staple in every home until modern food service came about. Since then, we have had a sharp increase in diet-based illnesses. Take control of your life by taking control of what you eat. It is a skill every person should have.

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