Just a Chef Brandon Bretz: HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012!!!!

Just a Chef Brandon Bretz: HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012!!!!: hello everyone, I just want to wish everyone in amazing 2012! 2011 was an amazing year! My lovely bride was able to stay home in 2011 and ...

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012!!!!

hello everyone, 

I just want to wish everyone in amazing 2012! 2011 was an amazing year! 

My lovely bride was able to stay home in 2011 and take care of our children and that in itself is an amazing thing.   

Our children Connor and Kayla had an amazing year themselves. Connor 13 is caring at 3.7 GPA and is amazing baseball player. My beautiful Kayla 10 is doing great in school and has become a great dancer and singer. I couldn't be more blessed with all the things that God has given me. Each and every day I am grateful for all that I have.

In 2011 I was awarded after painstaking tests certification by the international culinary Federation as a Master Chef!I was also blesses to become the vice president of the culinary department of which I am in the alumni. This coming week I get to have the honor to speak in front of the students of Lake Washington. These are things I only dreamed about. Having a beautiful family and rising to upper echelon of the culinary world. It is true what you dream will become your reality. Your attitude ultimately sets your altitude. Once again I truly have been blessed and I wish you all those blessings that have been blessed upon me. For I could have not become who I am today without knowing each and every one of you and having you in my life.

I spent a better part of my life a mile wide and an inch deep. Trying many many things in the moment they became difficult I would move on to something else. I always knew cooking was something I loved, and when I was 14 I began cooking. I went culinary school and then became head chef. But I spent many years jumping from restaurant to restaurant never quite finding my home but always honing my craft. I took a few years off from cooking to see if there was something else out there for me. But I know it's come back to cooking the thing that I love. Over the last few years I've truly given 100% to becoming the best possible chef that I can. By focusing my energy downwards not being a mile wide and an inch deep but being inches wide and miles deep and having amazing focus on my goal to become a master chef. I achieved my dream!

So so all you out there I wish you the best in 2012! I wish you the ability to focus and achieve your dreams for I am sure you have amazing dreams and the one day become your reality. Because of most people's some days becomes a handful of people's everyday!

thank you and God bless,

eat love and enjoy life!

Chef B.

Just letting it flow

                                                               This one by Eric Ring

                                                             This one by Eric Ring

I got a Ipad

Hey you guys I just got a new ipad for www.Juatachef.org now I will be posting like mad.So get set for it.
Eat, love and enjoy!
chef B.

The True Essence of Chef

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 tablespoons paprika
• 2 tablespoons salt
• 2 tablespoons garlic powder
• 1 tablespoon black pepper
• 1 tablespoon onion powder
• 1 tablespoon Cayenne pepper
• 1 tablespoon dried Oregano
• 1 tablespoon dried thyme
• 1 tablespoon piquante sesoning

Directions

Combine all ingredients thoroughly. Now just put this in all things to suck the love out of it.
Eat love and enjoy life!
Chef B.

Chef's Green Curry Tofu

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups water
• 1 cup uncooked basmati rice, rinsed and drained
• 3 tablespoons sesame oil
• 1 (14 ounce) package firm water-packed tofu, drained and cubed
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 (10 ounce) can coconut milk
• 2 tablespoons green curry paste

Directions

1. Place water in a medium saucepan, and stir in the rice. Bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer 20 minutes. Remove from heat, cool slightly, and fluff it up with a fork.
2. Heat the sesame oil in a separate medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir in tofu. Stirring occasionally, fry about 20 minutes, until evenly crisp and lightly browned. Season with salt.
3. In a small saucepan, bring the coconut milk to a boil. Mix in green curry paste. Reduce heat, and simmer 5 minutes. Drizzle generously over the tofu and rice to serve.

Eat, Love and Enjoy Life!