Posts tagged ‘Eating’

Culinary Ninja

on January 30, 2013

I’ve been bustin ninja moves recently and here’s why!

Kor180, a new boutique fitness studio, recently hired me as the head chef, or “Culinary Ninja”.

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Yes I’m wearing pants in that picture…and yes I was trying to wear 80′s clothes. (even though I never got to experience that era)

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Since joing the Kor180 team I’ve planned the most amazing events and put out some of the best food Austin TX has every seen. We introduced the A-List of Austin to the Kor180 Concept with a dinner cooked by Chef Jesse Barber & Myself…and we launched the first studio with a completely raw vegan menu!

What’s next?

1. Cooking Videos!

I’ll be filming weekly cooking videos featuring my recipes and content from other Kor180 team members!

2. Member Exclusive KorKitchen Content

KorKitchen will give Kor180 members weekly grocery lists, shopping lists, and inspiration! Videos, Featured Chefs, and Healthy Products make this a one of a kind program.

3. Blogs

Pictures galore, Fun food facts, and cool videos will be on kor180.com!

4. Trips around the world!

I’m planning – OM | SURF | GIVE which will be a kor180 member event in Costa Rica this July! We’ll practice yoga, learn how to surf, and do humanitarian work.

I just wanted to introduce you to this new brand and let you know about my exciting new position! Here’s the kor180 Essence Video -

New blogs and videos will be coming right here to my blog, so stay tuned!

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I Love This

on December 28, 2012

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

- Gloria Steinem

This quote really applies in the health food world! I love it!

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I’m currently on my way to eat lots of snow…and not on purpose!

I like to learn new things, so I’m abandoning my skiing life and taking up snowboarding. Wish me luck! I’ll be drinking plenty of green smoothies to help my bruises heal. (Yea, green smoothies are my answer to everything)

If your like me, you travel with your vitamix. :)

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Juice!

on December 26, 2012

I meant to upload this earlier today! But here you go friends. :)

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So many pictures of foooood!

on December 14, 2012

Over the last 6 months I’ve taken thousands of photos (literally) and most of them are of food. (I had to upgrade to the 64 g iPhone 5 to hold all my stuffff) So here’s some pictures for you from my culinary school life. If you have any questions about any of the food in the pictures leave a comment! :)

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Visiting the Natural Epicurean Culinary School

on March 9, 2012

Where do I even start?

Well….at my grandparents house I guess! On Tuesday I posted about how I was coming down to Austin Texas to visit the Natural Epicurean. Well after surviving fun turbulence, my grandpa’s aggressive driving, and multiple doughnuts being waved in my face. (My grandpa likes to taunt me since I can’t eat gluten.) Horseshoe Bay was within my view. This resort town in the hill country of Texas has been my second or third home for about 10 years. I would come and visit my grandparents at least once a year…sometimes staying in this retirement paradise for 1 month at a time. Yea, I was semi-retired at 12 years old.

Well 50 miles away, the city of Austin holds one of the most exciting schools I’ve ever visited. I first found out about the Natural Epicurean after interviewing one of their distinguished alumni, Christy Morgan (aka The Blissful Chef) on my radio show! literally 2 weeks after finding out that this school existed, I had a plane ticket to check it out. I don’t waste time…that’s for sure!

If you want more information about this school, just visit their website! (even though I halfway don’t even want to tell you about it, since I want it to stay a hidden gem.) :)

Obviously I liked my visit…but let me tell you exactly why!

Reason #1: Every single person that I met at the school radiated passion, excitement, and love. I have never felt so welcomed! The program is fantastic of course…but when you have people in charge of it that are literally out to change the world with what they do, you are automatically reeled in.

Reason #2: As my grandparents and I quickly turned into the parking lot after almost missing the turn…each of us had the same reaction at about the same time. “Wow, this place is small.” The Natural Epicurean is actually in a small shopping center, which actually got me crazy excited. As many of you know, I currently go to the Entrepreneurship Focus Program…which is a small, intimate environment where learning just explodes. Well this Culinary School drew me in because it has a very similar feel to the focus program I go to now. The students all have similar interests, passion is prevalent just opening up the door, and the future just gets brighter and brighter when you talk to the enthusiastic staff. This small environment is definitely a plus, something that gets me extremely excited.

Reason #3: I know very little about the subjects that the school teaches. Ever since I was 12 years old I’ve been going through cooking text books and creating a library to help me with any kind of cooking questions I might have. Well the Natural Epicurean is a plant-based cooking program and teaches all of their students in the following disciplines:

  • Macrobiotic
  • Vegetarian
  • Vegan
  • Ayurvedic
  • Raw & Living Foods

All of these topics have never really even crossed my mind before…and since I’m always wanting to learn something foreign to me, this school seems to be perfect.

One question I have is: How will I give up Bacon? ;) (I think I could probably handle it)

So will I be blogging from  Austin Texas in the future? I’ll have to keep you up to speed about that. For now I’ll just be busy changing the world like usual. (I gotta tell ya…once I get together with the world changers at the Natural Epicurean..Super Hero Status will be achieved)

Make sure to check out this blog, from a student currently at the school!

I’m in Texas until Sunday, Soaking up the feeling of the future. More Blogs will be coming your way once I get back to the big city of Lincoln Nebraska.

What are you doing to change the world? Have a great recipe to share with me?

Comment on this post, or tweet me! :)

 

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The best gluten free lemon bar recipe ever.

on February 15, 2012

Happy day after Valentines Day!

Ever since i was little I’ve been consuming massive amounts of lemon bars. Okay, I’m exaggerating a little bit, but the point is that I love them and so does my whole family. I think it’s time for me to rise to the TOP of the lemon bar ranks, and this recipe will help me do just that.

How was my Valentines day you’re wondering? Is he just going to skip the whole subject? Well the truth is I’ve never been a huge V-day fan. We should share the love with everyone everyday of the year, right? I’m starting to like this cliché day more and more though, so maybe next year you’ll see a huge valentines day blog post with a big heart-shaped cake or something.

My Valentines day did end up being really great, and lemon bar filled of course. I started out by singing my uncle a great Heytell message. “I, I love you like a love song baby…I, I love you like a love song baby” (thank you Selena Gomez.) That’s what happens when you Heytell my mom, she just hands the phone to me and says “say something to your uncle.” I then proceeded to be accidentally late to school. (it wasn’t an accident…it was calculus) After that I worked worked worked…almost like it was a regular Tuesday, until it came time to hangout and go to dinner with my awesome girlfriend. We had very romantic mexican dive bar food. The best valentines dinner ever.

To be more festive I would’ve cut these lemon bars into heart shapes…but the sad thing is, they were gone before I really thought about doing that. These bars literally fly out of the pan magically into your mouth…again and again and again. (don’t tell anybody, but I ate one for breakfast, lunch and dinner.)

**disclaimer: I never said these were healthy. Please eat them sparingly if possible. I support eating healthy, but these lemon bars are an exception. (There are quite a few exceptions if you know me really well…you just have to make them very very rarely, that’s the key)

But anyway…Enjoy these! They are the BEST. :)

Ingredients

for the shortbread crust

16 oz. Bob’s Red Mill All Purpose Gluten Free Flour

8 oz. powdered sugar

2 sticks unsalted butter

1/4 cup heavy whipping cream

1 tbsp. lemon zest

for the lemon curd

2 cups fresh lemon juice (about 8 lemons)

4 egg yolks

8 large eggs

2 cups granulated sugar

2 sticks unsalted butter

2 cups heavy whipping cream

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Here’s your butter Julia!

on February 3, 2012

Sometimes I have dreams about food.

Shocking right? And most of the time they are crazy…which is why i don’t tell you about them. (I think I’ll just publish a “Tanner’s Crazy Dreams” book later in my life) Every once in a while though I have a dream that is not quite as crazy as the others and needs to be shared. Last night I fell asleep in Lincoln, Nebraska and woke up in the land of Julia Child.

As a 17 year old…sure I know who Julia Child is, but I never really had a chance to experience what she was all about. To be totally honest I thought she was boring when I first layed eyes on her TV show. CRAZY…I know. But there has been a change in the air.

Every day during the week I’ve started to watch “The French Chef” on the Cooking Channel. Her show puts me in a trance, ignites my passion for food, and sends me over a flavor rainbow with a huge pot of beef bourguignon on the other side. I DIDN’T KNOW HER MAGIC EXISTED. Sure, I knew who she was, I knew she was THE celebrity chef…but I didn’t know why she was who she was.

After being completely sucked into everything she has done…I’ve started to feel sad, and guilty, and in love. I feel like maybe I could’ve gotten to know her better before she passed away…even though I know that would’ve been a far off dream. Maybe I could’ve run into her in a french bistro, and asked her to sign my forehead. Who knows! But I think my feelings of guilt, sadness, and love all stem from me wishing I could meet her and follow in her footsteps…and somehow fall in love over a fancy dinner. I mean she’s just plain awesome. ;)

So I finished sending emails last night and slowly fell asleep. My dream started like normal…Everything I was thinking about before bed started fighting to the death. The topic that came out on top received the high honor of supplying me with great entertainment for about 5 hours. Julia was obviously the winner with her big knife and chicken minions.

In my dream Julia received an email from me. (I frequently send out emails to amazing chefs asking for advice) While I slobbered on my body pillow last night…My new Idol hit reply. She asked me to come to her home. Not because she wanted to cook with me, or talk with me, but because she was out of butter and desperately needed me to bring her some. Funny huh? I remember arriving at her kitchen, which was the exact kitchen out of her show, and guess what happened? She wouldn’t say a word to me. I offered her the butter she desperately needed…and she just didn’t say anything. I didn’t know if I came too late, or made her mad…I was extremely confused, but became even more confused when she finally looked up at me and said “just keep chopping.”

“Just Keep Chopping,” What the heck does that mean? I wasn’t even chopping anything. I was just standing in her kitchen with the butter she asked for! I tried again to communicate with her, but from then on the only thing she would say to me was “just keep chopping.”

Sadly I don’t remember much more from this dream. The part that I do remember though really REALLY impacted me. The “just keep chopping” went on for quite some time I believe. Before I headed over to the radio station today to share my super bowl hot wings recipe…I googled quotes from Julia Child. I was thinking that it would be really creepy to see “just keep chopping” on the list.

No, I didn’t find it (that would’ve been crazy!)…but I did find this one:

“You’ll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.”
― Julia Child

So I decided to interpret my dream in this way:

Just keep chopping is Julia’s way of telling me to not give up. Lately I’ve been trying to really figure out the direction I want to go after High School…and what this quote tells me is that for the rest of my life I get to chase after my dreams. I WILL be on the Food Network, I WILL go to culinary school, I WILL speak to and inspire millions of people. And while I’m doing all of this I will continue to grow, and learn about what I love. Everything will happen the way it should. (even though I’m slightly disappointed I didn’t get to eat any of her food in my dream)

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Paula and the Diabetes Factory

on January 17, 2012

I have loved this woman ever since i met her….through my TV. When I first started watching the food network I was literally glued to the screen when Paula’s show came on. Casseroles made with everything under the sun, decadent desserts, and the constant view of fried food made me feel like I was in her kitchen! Sometimes I could even swear that I smelled her chicken fried steak cooking. She has been the closest to creating smellovision I believe.

Recently though there has been some NOT SO SHOCKING news about this wonderful woman that has been confirmed. This morning (January 17th) Paula announced on the “Today” show that she has had Type 2 Diabetes since 2008.

“You can have diabetes and have a piece of cake. You cannot have diabetes and eat a whole cake.”  -Paula Deen

My first question Did she really use to eat a whole cake at a time?

My second question Why did she wait until now to tell us all about this?

The answer to my first question is an obvious yes but the answer to my second question has people in an uproar! Paula claims that she never came clean about having diabetes because she knew very little about the disease and wanted to make sure she was sharing the correct facts with people. Okayyyyy……so here’s my third question Why did it take you 3 years to learn about diabetes?

You want to know the answer to my third question? Just read this paragraph from The Associated Press:

“Deen is the pitch person for Novo Nordisk’s new online program, Diabetes in a New Light, which offers tips on food preparation, stress management and working with doctors on treatment. She has contributed diabetes-friendly recipes to the website and takes the company’s drug Victoza, a once-daily noninsulin injection that had global sales of $734 million in the first nine months of 2011.”

It takes a long time to put a deal together like this! Sure she had to learn about the disease, change her diet, change her recipes, and get her family on board. (one of her sons is now hosting “not my mommas meals” on the cooking channel) But the thing that I’m sure took the longest was finding out a way to make money off of her diabetes. Thank you Novo Nordisk.

Now I’m not bashing her…even though it might sound like I am. Everyone is in business to make money…and if you were in Paula’s place I guarantee you’d be making millions off of this too. I don’t judge, I think it’s great that she has come clean about this…I even think it’s great that she made a deal with the drug company! I respect her as a business woman and a culinary Icon. Before you go against this southern butter bell, think about what you would do as a cooking celebrity with diabetes. You’d start a whole new line of recipes right? You’d try to partner with a drug company right? …That’s what I thought.

The one thing I hope she does is change her diet for the better. Pills aren’t the way to go…you can truly cure diabetes with the right kind of diet. And remember Paula! A diet isn’t something that you go on to lose a couple pounds…It’s a way of life! So drop the pills, drop the gluten, and eat your vegetables.

No matter what, I still love you!

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