150: The Art of Making Homemade Pies Easy

This week on The Mad Chef Podcast, Chef Brian gets back to the basics with cooking with Whole Grains and Beans with guests Bruce and Carla Crane. Bruce and Carla have been cooking with Whole Grains and Beans and are recognized as experts in their field with over 40 years of experience on how to get the most out of Whole Grains and Beans in your cooking.

This week on The Mad Chef Podcast, Chef Brian sits down with Pie Making expert JeriDee Burnett. We discover JeriDee's passion for making pies and she answers your questions on how to make a great pie. 

This week on The Mad Chef Podcast, Chef Brian sits down with brother and sister team and local business owners Gina and Alan Crane. We discuss their life in the bread making and teaching business and how eating whole wheat bread was just what they knew, and didn’t know any better. Gina and Alan recount their family’s life lessons and how they help prepare them for life as an adult. Each shares their insights on their upcoming class and how they will assist the attendees to make better bread.

The Mad Chef sits down with local artisan Candy makers Carla Crane and Tenill Foote. Carla shares her story of building her Business with her husband and the struggles they endured getting started. Carla and Tenill recount the good memories their family had making Easter Treats together. Each share their thoughts on International Women's Day and more.

This week on The Mad Chef Podcast, we visit with Emily Rawlings a local artisan who makes cheeses. Emily says that you can make cheese at one half the amount that you can purchase cheeses in the store and there is a world of better flavor as well. Emily shares her passion and why she became a self-taught artisan of cheese. We get a good rapid fire session in.

This week on The Mad Chef Podcast, we visit with Brett Borg co-owner of The Schmidt’s Pastry Cottage in Salt Lake City, Utah. Brett says that there is a lot to producing a quality product consistently than what the average customer might think. Brett shares the values and life skills he has learned growing up in the bakery and how family and supporting local business has been a passion of his. We get a few rapid fire questions in as well. 

Chef Brian sits down with Salt Lake City resident and Home Chef Vini Joseph. Vini shares her immigration story to the United States. Vini shares her personal sacrifices and her hopes and dreams of opening her own restaurant and writing her own American dream for herself one day.

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Chef Brian sits down and talks through listener comments and questions.  Brian provides quick and easy steps to solving some common questions from how to store cheese, using honey in cooking, what to do with leftover wine and how to make a fancy balsamic glaze.

Of course we share our featured recipe of a New Orleans classic BraBant Potatoes.

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Chef Brian became a grandfather while on his trip to Texas.  Brian shares his experiences, the joys of technology and how being 1,000 miles away how it brought the family together.  Brian shares his food experience in Texas, How to Find and Fix your Grill’s Hot Spots, and of course he talks about Great Skirt Steak that is marinated in an Asian Style and Elote (Mexican Grilled Corn).

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Brian is going to Texas again next week and the great city of Dallas.  We celebrate the beauty of our childhood memories of where we eat food, what hamburgers we like and how regionality play in our food preferences.  Dani shares her love of Whisky & Jameson.  We talk about a beautiful Mediterranean classic, a grilled Bronzini and the live remote on College Football game day.

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