Publisher's Synopsis
This book is a fantastic reference book for the aspiring chef and home foodies. You will be able to level up your cheffy skills to amazing new heights and transform your knowledge of cooking quickly and easily with these tried and tested recipes. The recipes are simple, easy and effective to help you get the success you want and deserve.
This book is perfect for the person who wants to increase their cooking skills and learn how to be more cheffy. This is the most comprehensive cookbook that covers fundamental cheffy skills to make you a better home chef. The book covers everything from bread, pastries, basic sauces, advanced sauces, plating and presentation, starters, mains, desserts and everything in between. You will also learn salads, pasta, gnocchi skills and more. Your confidence and skill levels will increase dramatically as you work through the various recipes and information. The recipes are written in a way that will help you understand why and how a technique is beneficial. It will also give you all the tricks, hacks and shortcuts to make sure your time in the kitchen is more efficient. These are quick and easy but very cheffy recipes. You will gain confidence and become unstoppable in the kitchen. Have fun, gain confidence, and have a reference book that will last you years. And who better to teach you than a professional chef who has been a cooking school teacher for more than 28 years? Her superpower is teaching. Making difficult dishes easy and successful. Enjoy, and make delicious discoveries along the way. Your friends, family and loved ones will notice a difference immediately...and so will you.
Perfect for absolute beginners, intermediate or advanced foodies...and everyone in between. Buy this book for yourself or your loved ones, and you'll live happily ever after in the kitchen. You'll become the confident, cheffy foodie you have always wanted to be.
Chef Mel Alafaci has been a professional chef since 1992. Her passion for cooking, eating, and teaching is unwavering.
Her intoxicating enthusiasm, authenticity and unique culinary lingo will have you hungry to flex your muscles in the kitchen.
Mel is brilliant at adding humour, shortcuts, and tricks to all those tedious tasks that can kill your passion for cooking.
Every recipe has been designed, tried, and tested by Mel, and she is proud to share these with you.
You will learn your way through breads, sauces, pastries, starters, mains, desserts and more. You will never look back with this cookbook by your side; best of all, you'll have so much delicious fun along the way.
Happy Cooking
Chef Mel
