Perfect Chicken or Perfect Chicken Soup

Perfect Chicken or Perfect Chicken Soup

As a private chef, I constantly have to multitask.  Catering to New York’s elite leaves me running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off: shopping 3 times a day (for each meal), running errands for my clients, pop up 6-course dinner parties for 12 with only a 3-hour notice, etc…  You get the picture.  Speaking of chickens with their heads cut off, here is one of my...

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Emergency Guacamole

Emergency Guacamole

Here is a useful trick -and it is just in time for those summer gatherings…  Whenever I make Guacamole, I add half a package of Lemon/Lime Emergen-C to prevent it from oxidizing.  A bowl of that mushy green stuff usually starts turning brown in 15 minutes.  It usually takes 4 days for the color start to change using my secret ingredient.  Emergen-C is great, I can throw a fun summer...

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