Taylor'd for Taste, Culinary Experience Director

06/24/2024

Nice birthday celebration for 10 last week.

Garden salad with vanilla vinaigrette.

Farfalle salad with roasted red pepper dressing and goat cheese.

French potato salad, new potatoes with a white wine and mustard vinaigrette with parsley, dill, and basil.

Grilled flanksteak with chimmichurri sauce.

Ginger and lime marinated grilled salmon salad with arugula and pickled ginger.

And strawberry rhubarb Pavlova for dessert.

06/04/2024

It was a great time.

04/07/2024

When the birthday boy prefers berries and pastry instead of cake, he gets mini blackberry galettes and blueberry ginger strudels.

10/05/2023

Cranberry Sauce: Home made is always better. This batch is spiced up with orange zest, star anise, cinnamon, and bay leaf.

08/03/2023

Now serving Cobble Hill BC, and the Cowichan Valley.

07/05/2022

05/31/2022

03/01/2021

We all know that junk food is bad for us. Anything that is designed to just be re-heated is highly processed, which often means the good stuff is taken out to make it last longer on a shelf or in the freezer.

If you need help cooking wholesome food at home, I can help. Custom menu planning, shopping strategies, and cooking lessons to help you put delicious, healthy food on the table.

Ultra-processed foods have known negative implications for health; however, their effect on skeletal development has never been explored. Here, we show that young rats fed ultra-processed food rich in fat and sugar suffer from growth retardation due to lesions in their tibial growth plates. The bone...

12/22/2020

Need a trick to thaw out a turkey fast and make it super tasty? Brine it.

12/19/2020

Who's cooking Christmas dinner for the first time? If you need any tips or have questions just let me know. I'll answer all cooking questions.

11/05/2020

Does this resonate with you? If so I'm happy to help you take control of your health through cooking real food.

Today, the food industry has hijacked our kitchens, not by accident, but by design. It has rebranded cooking as a chore, a burden, drudgery. ⁣
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“You deserve a break today.” Nonsense. It’s a con job to get us to buy prepared, processed foods. ⁣
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Many of my patients report feeling too stressed and too tired to cook, and on the rare occasions when they have the energy to cook, more often than not they are confused about what to cook. They are victims of the food industry initiative to subvert the American kitchen (and increasingly, the global kitchen), and they are not alone. ⁣
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We now have two generations of Americans who do not know how to cook, who have swallowed Big Food’s propaganda, that cooking is a difficult, time-consuming, expensive, onerous chore from which only they can save us. It’s a lie. Don’t buy it. ⁣
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Cooking and eating food are essential acts that make us human and connect us to what is real and important: the earth, nature, family, and community. Preparing and cooking food, for me, has always been a source of joy, nourishment, connection, and exploration. And with a little practice and guidance, it can be for you as well. ⁣

10/22/2020

For all you folks who are stuck cooking for themselves, this is a handy guide to chiles for any excursions you may be considering into Mexican or Latin cuisine.

I have a ton of bright red now! yummy

09/15/2020

OPEN FOR BUSINESS!!

My latest testimonial from a dinner this past Saturday:

"Hi Jason,

We had a wonderful time, thank you again. We have had rave reviews from everyone there so it was a successful evening all around, woo hoo!"

04/17/2020

Dinner tonight: Pork Chile Verde with pan roasted cauliflower and mushrooms.

04/14/2020

I've had several clients comment on my abilities to load a dishwasher. Here is a guide to help you get more dishes clean in 1 load.

Since you're probably doing more dishes than ever.

03/30/2020

Day 12 of Quarantine. Home made Chicken Fingers (keto) and a Smashed Cucumber salad with black vinegar and sesame oil dressing.