Chef Danie Cooks
Culinary Classes for Every Age

There were over 1600 vendors displaying everything from expensive pizza ovens to kitchen twine. Here are my top five favorite picks...

One of the first steps in any cooking process is the prep work for our meal. "Mise en place" is getting everything ready to cook. It...

Being a chef has been an all consuming career and a huge part of my life for almost thirty years and I love it!! Along the way I have...

a new concept but it sure is a great one.  Omelets always top the list of great breakfast for dinner fare.  Maybe because you can fill...

📷 Jambalaya is a meal I learned to cook from my step-dad who happened to be a Cajun chef.  Cajun food is an amazing combination of...

Horn Island Flounder Caprese over Chef Danie’s fresh 📷 📷 fettuccine pasta tossed with a creamy sun-dried tomato sauce and topped with...

Having been a chef for over twenty years now, I have run several restaurants, catered many events ,trained many up and coming young...

One of my favorite memories is waking up to the smell of breakfast being cooked in the kitchen.  The smells always tickled my nose and...

Brunch has always been one of my favorite meals.  As a Chef we really don't go to bed early so we are always kinda too late for breakfast...

Steak Gorgonzola with Fresh Cheese Tortellini 📷 One of our best selling meals at the restaurant has always been Steak Gorgonzola. For me...

Pasta Rosamarino 📷 Pasta Rosamarino Rosemary is one of the most fragrant herbs I know and I really love to use it.  If you have ever...

This is a dish that I love to make as well as eat. 📷 The flavors blend so well together and it makes great use of beautiful bell peppers...

📷    Bolognese sauce is one of the most versatile sauces in the Italian kitchen. Learning to make a good bolognese sauce is one of the...

I am writing today about a favorite dish of mine to order when we go out to eat.  I think my favorite place to have this dish out was at...

Apple Pie in July 📷Normally you would not expect to read about an apple pie recipe in the middle of the summer.  It is true that I...

JUL6 Eggplant Parmesan 📷One of my favorite meals of all time is Eggplant Parmesan.   In the last couple of years I have been selling my...

📷I do pasta classes all of the time.  I go to private houses or public places and I teach people the centuries old Italian tradition of...

Summer Time Flavor 📷Even though it has been really hot so far this year and we have had very little rain there is still a great deal of...