Dinner Party in Atlanta Pictures

Another dinner party done by Chef Nia. Chef Nia has been with our Atlanta Personal Chef Service for almost a year. The dinner party was a simple dinner for two, but keep in mind that Atlanta Personal Chef Service also does catering events in Atlanta, weekly service and cooking lessons. To find out more abut Nia click in the following link: http://atlantapersonalchefservice.com/about.php

Cooking Lessons in Atlanta- A chef's perspective

A lot people think that cooking is easy and something anyone can just pick up, which is that main problem with the Chef profession. 

In the Chef industry, there are a lot of people that just don't know how to cook. I've worked with chefs in supposedly fine dining places that were really bad cooks. Also, people in general think that being a chef is a low position job. People are not willing to pay for a good chef to cook for them. Most people don't even know how to differentiate between good food and bad food. Unfortunately, in the U.S, efficiency and price are more valuable than quality.

So, if you are looking to learn how to cook good food, Atlanta Personal Chef Service is probably the best place for you to learn other than a culinary school. They have well respected chefs that know what good food is. There are two types of cooking lessons: The group lessons that teach a two course meals and private lessons. 

Please keep in mind that Thumbtack is not a place for you to find good chefs. Thumbtack is one of the worst things that have ever happened in the service industry. You as customer will have no idea if the chef is cooking from their own catering kitchen or in their hot tub. 

Give us call and try one of group cooking lesson. They are very fun and cheap. $45 per person is very cheap. Atlanta personal chef service just wants to get people excited about cooking, then maybe they will want to try one of their private cooking lesson. 

We Are More Than Just a Personal Chef and Catering Company

Atlanta Personal Chef Service is more than just another catering or personal chef company in Atlanta. We will never compete on price to give a less quality product to our clients. We spend hours perfecting our skills. Our food is combination of mixing the right ingredients with art. We take each of events like we were planing the events for us.

Our dinner parties is where our skills truly shine. For every dinner party that we do, no matter the size, we will have a meeting to discuss the best approach. We see which would be the best fit for the party and come up with a plan.

For our catering events, the same thoughtful process that goes into the dinner party goes to our catering events. But, catering events tends to be less formal. They tend to be less focus around the food and more focused on the atmosphere.

For weekly clients, we spend everyday going over on how can we improve our services. If the chef we sent you is not a good fit, then we will send another. With the weekly service, we really focus on what the family wants to eat, including the kids.

For our corporate lunches, our service is very professional. Our prices are very reasonable and competitive. We are easy to work with and we still maintain our quality.

  

Pictures of our catering in Atlanta

Below are some pictures of our catering events in Atlanta and around the Atlanta area. We are very  proud of catering the business that is growing so much in Atlanta. Our chefs dare doing a great job! Ready to book us for your next catering event? Make sure to contact us by clicking here. Chef Shawn, our head chef, over sees all over catering events and dinner parties. He one of best chefs that we have! Enjoy some of recent pictures!

Some of our Dinner Party and Catering Pictures

These past few weeks we been busier than ever with our weekly in home chef services, dinner parties, and catering events. God has blessed us tremendously. Our team has done a fantastic job and here a few pictures that display some of their work. Most of events are done in the Atlanta area and its around cities. These cities include: Marietta, Sandy Springs, Alphraretta, Dunwoody, Kenensaw, and others. Also, we are now doing a lot more catering events and we just started doing corporate lunches as well. We are proud of the services we provide and proud of our team. Please contact us if you are looking for a chef or a catering company. We are proud to be the best chef rated company company in Atlanta!

Valentine’s Day with Atlanta Personal Chef Service

What are your plans for Valentine’s Day? How about a romantic evening in the comfort of your own home, while a talented chef pampers you with an elegant dinner over candle light? Valentine’s Day is still over a month away and we only have a few spot left. This year we put together two different menus, but you can mix and match between them. Don’t procrastinate this year and do it right with Atlanta Personal Chef Service.  Visit our webpage to view more information about Valentine's Day 2015 with the best team of chefs in town.

 

"His and Hers"

Duo of Tomato Bisque and Cream of Asparagus Soup garnished with a Parmesan crisp and Asparagus tips

Spinach and warm Brie salad with Apples and Walnuts tossed in Champagne Vinaigrette served with a Buttered Crostini

Marinated Hanger Steak and Herb Crusted Lamb Chop with Cabernet sauce over roasted Parmesan potatoes and sautéed Asparagus tips

Mousse au Chocolate over Chocolate Chiffon cake garnished with Crème Anglaise and fresh Raspberries



"Land and Sea"


Caramelized Onion and Cana de Cabra Cheese tartlet garnished with Lemon infused Arugula and Balsamic glaze

Red Wine poached Pear salad garnished with Stilton cheese and a Cranberry Crouton
 

Rosemary crusted Pork Tenderloin and seared Scallops with Cherry demi sauce over roasted Root Vegetable pureé and braised Brussels sprouts

Strawberry Shortcake with Vanilla Bean Ice Cream garnished with Strawberry coulis and Chantilly Cream

Gift Certificates are on SALE now!

Wondering to what give for Christmas this holiday? How about an Atlanta Personal Chef Service Gift Certificate? Starting at $350 for a 3 course-plated dinner for two, this gift includes the cost of the service, groceries and tip for the chef.  This makes a wonderful gift for any loved one. To learn more visit our website here.  This is a $390 value offered at a $40 savings if you purchase now through Dec 18th.

You'll receive a printable gift certificate which you can wrap and gift.  It will include menu options, so when they're ready to redeem, all they need to do is call us a few days in advance and we'll take it from there!

These make great gifts for parents, bosses, or even your special someone.  Relax for dinner, and let us treat you to a special meal.

A Cup of Tea a Day, May Keep the Cancer Away

I’m not sure if you have noticed, but tea is making a comeback. If you go to the mall, there is a high percentage that you will see a store that only sells tea. It’s very impressive, since coffee still is the popular drink of choice. Perhaps, due to the heath factors that teas have or the less amount of caffeine (depending on the tea less, since some tea can have high levels of caffeine), more and more people are choosing tea or coffee.  Atlanta Personal Chef Service is here to help you understand how a cup of tea a day, may go a long way to improve your health.

There are many types of teas out there, but for the sake of simplicity we are just going to talk about the two most famous:

Green tea, perhaps, the most popular of tea, is made with steamed tea leaves. Green tea has a high amount of EGCG (epigallocatechin-3-gallate), which is a powerful antioxidant.  Studies have showed that this antioxidant may prevent many types of cancer such as, stomach, bladder, breast and pancreatic cancers. EGCG is also in known to help with weight loss and brain heath. The caffeine amount is green tea is very low (about 25 mg for an eight oz cup).

Black tea is the tea that coffee drinkers might want to stick with. It has (about 47 mg for an eight oz cup compared to 95 mg in coffee). It is made with fermented teas leaves. Just like most teas, black teas have powerful antioxidants that may prevent many different types of cancers. However, the best benefit of black tea, according to research, is that prevents cancer from second hand smoking (being around smoke).

Atlanta Personal Chef Service cares about your health. We have chefs that serve weekly meals in Marietta, Kennesaw, Atlanta, Buck Head, Sandy Springs, Dunwoody, Roswell, Vinnings and other cities surrounding Atlanta. We also do dinner parties. Contact us and give us a try. We are here to help you making your life easier and healthier. 

Let Atlanta Personal Chef Service Help You With Your New Year’s Resolution

According to http://www.usa.gov, the top New Year’s Resolutions are to “ lose weight, volunteer to help others, quit smoking, get a better education, get a better job, save money, get fit, eat healthy food, manage stress, manage debt, take a trip, reduce, reuse, and recycle, drink less alcohol.” The majority of these resolutions are about being healthy and maintaining a healthy diet. Whether your resolution is to lose weight or to eat healthier meals Atlanta Personal Chef Service is here to help you. Everyday our chefs are cooking healthy delicious meals to families living around Atlanta, Buckhead, Marietta, Dunwoody, Sandy Springs, Vinnings, and other neighborhoods in and around Atlanta. 

All of our chefs graduated from great culinary schools and have a lot of experience. They cook meals that are delicious, healthy, and with low salt content. Let Atlanta Personal Chef Service help with accomplishing those resolutions. Give us a try and we guarantee you that you are not going to regret.

Use a Personal Chef for a Truly Unique Proposal

Proposal season has arrived! Grooms-to-be all over Atlanta and Buckhead are thinking up crafty ways to pop that question to their significant other. Some are reserving seats in fancy Buckhead restaurants planning to propose to their girlfriends, while others are planning a surprise in the park. But why not try something different that is more romantic and less crowded? For those of you who live around the Perimeter area of Atlanta (Marietta, Buckhead, Dunwoody, Midtown, Vinings), Atlanta Personal Chef Service would be happy to help you plan a special evening for the big proposal. Have an intimate dinner in the coziness of your home or condo, while our chefs cook and serve a menu tailored just for you. All of our chefs have experience in high end restaurants and know how to make a memorable evening with great food. Atlanta Personal Chef Service will work with you to customize your perfect menu. We will gladly show you some samples menus, which you are encouraged to customize as you like. For example, if you have gone to Buckhead Diner or any other restaurant and had a dish you really enjoyed, we will gladly cook a similar (and better!) dish for you. We are a professional service dedicated to planning and executing a wonderful dinner that you and your future bride will always remember. Atlanta Personal Chef Service serves Atlanta, Buckhead, Marietta, Dunwoody, Midtown and other areas around the perimeter with tasty dinners and wonderful memories. Find out more about our dinner service here.

Grocery Shopping with Atlanta Personal Chef Service

Have you seen Atlanta Personal Chef Service's team of chefs shopping in your local Publix and Whole Food's stores?  We do most of our shopping in the early afternoon hours, so that dinner is ready when you come home from work.  But we also shop over the weekends to get the freshest ingredients for our dinner parties around Atlanta.

Take a look at the photo's below as we follow one of our Personal Chefs, Kym, who joined the Atlanta Personal Chef Service team in early January.  Kym cooks dinner three nights a week for a family of four in Buckhead.  With two working parents, and two school-aged children, there's just not enough hours in the day to prepare healthy, home-cooked meals as well.  But you don't have to give up that family time of dinner each night.  For many families, its the routine of enjoying a meal together every night that binds the family together across everyone's busy schedules.  Our service allows busy families to return to the dinner table, and create a lifestyle of eating together, and eating healthy, tasty meals.

If you'd like to find out more about Atlanta Personal Chef Service, please visit our website here.  Take a sneak peak into one of Kym's latest shopping trips.  Menus are customized for each family at the beginning of each week, and chef's bring the menus to guide their shopping each day.  Of course, we also always select the freshest ingredients, so you'll always see seasonal items on the menus.  Here, Chef Kym is shopping in Publix, but we also shop at Whole Foods, Harry's, and some specialty stores on occasion.

Spring Dinner Parties are in Season at Atlanta Personal Chef Service

Our Chefs were busy this weekend preparing some of our favorite spring featured dishes.  See the photos below for a look at the finished courses prepared by Atlanta Personal Chef Service:

Foie Gras on top of Toasted Brioche Bun and Fig Demi Glaze (Atlanta Personal Chef Service) 

Goat Cheese Tart with Roasted Tomatoes and Caramelized Onions (Atlanta Personal Chef Service)

Tomato Basil Bisque with Gruyere Crouton (Atlanta Personal Chef Service)

Spring Greens tossed with White Balsamic dressing with Apples, candied Pecans, and Goat Cheese Schnitzel (Atlanta Personal Chef Service)

Seared Red Snapper over herb poached Fingerling Potatoes, Haricot Verts and Spring Pea sauce (Atlanta Personal Chef Service)

Are you looking to host an intimate dinner party to celebrate a special occasion coming up?  Our talented team of chefs is excited to help each of our clients celebrate what's most important to them with those who are most important to them.  We do all the cooking in your house, so its truly amazing to see what fine food can come from your own kitchen!  Contact us (click here) to find out our availability and make your next celebration an intimate dinner with great food.

Executive Chef Patricia to judge local Culinary Competition

Atlanta Personal Chef Service's Executive Chef Patricia Homma will spend next weekend juding the 2013 Georgia Culinary and ProStart Management State Championships at Le Cordon Bleu culinary school.  This one day competition is a chance for aspiring young chefs to compete for the chance to move on to the National ProStart International competition in April in Maryland.  The competition is judged by some of Atlanta's top chefs, including Master Chefs, Executive Chefs, and restaurant executives.  Winning young chefs will receive thousands in culinary scholarships.

Chef Patricia started Atlanta Personal Chef Service after working in some of the fine dining restaurants of Atlanta.  Having received a culinary scholarship herself from winning the "Best Teen Chef in America" competition, the chance to give back to the community in this sense is extremely meaningful.  Patricia was the first-ever female winner of the national competition, which she won in 2003, which earned her a full scholarship to the Art Institute of Atlanta.

Interested in having Chef Patricia or one of Atlanta Personal Chef Service's team of chefs cook for you in your home?  We cook family dinners during the work week, and also serve up fancy, multi-course dinner parties to make that special occassion really memorable.  Contact us here for more information on our personal chef service.

A Great Valentine's Day with a Personal Chef

Looking for a unique, personalized, and romantic gift for Valentine's Day?  Surprise that special someone with a private four-course dinner prepared by a personal chef in the comfort of your own home.  Don't fight the crowds and lines of the restaurants on the 14th.  Enjoy fine-dining from the comfort of your own dining table.  This year, we've put together a menu that provides a tasting of Atlanta Personal Chef Service.  The menu is below:

Valentine’s Day 2013

Soup

Tomato Basil Bisque with Manchego Crostini

Salad

Red Wine Poached Pear Mixed Green Salad with Goat Cheese and Cranberry Walnut croutons tossed with Balsamic Vinaigrette

Entrée

Seared Filet Mignon with Cabernet Sauce over roasted Root Vegetable purée with sautéed Asparagus

(Herb Crusted Lamb Chops $10 additional)

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Seared Salmon with Beurre Blanc sauce over Mushroom Risotto with Brocollini

Dessert

Chocolate Lava Cake with Assorted Berries and Vanilla Bean Ice Cream

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Crème Brûlée garnished with Fresh Berries

Your chef will arrive about 2 hours before your scheduled meal time, with fresh ingredients in hand, and prepare your dinner in your own kitchen.  That means you'll need to have a working oven and stove, and some extra space in the fridge.  All you'll have to do is pick out your favorite bottle of wine or champagne, and enjoy the meal.  Your chef will do all the cooking, serve each course of the meal as if you were in a fine restaurant, and clean up everything afterwards.  The cost of the service, food included, is $350 for two.  (Please contact us for special rates for dinners with multiple couples. Dinners held outside the Perimeter will incur an additional $20 travel fee.)

We only have a few reservations left for the 14th, so contact us or call us today to schedule your Valentine's Day Dinner!

What's cooking at Atlanta Personal Chef Service?

This week will be another busy week for Atlanta Personal Chef Service!  Among many of the fine dishes that our personal chefs will be cooking this week for our clients are these two-course meals:

 Baked Brie with Orange Marmalade

Seared Seabass with Edamame, Succotash, and Butternut Squash Puree

 

Veggy Slaw with Lemon Vinaigrette

Grilled Pork Loin with Chimichurri Sauce, Potato Hash and sauteed Yellow Squash

 

Grilled Corn Salad

BBQ grilled Salmon with Sweet Potato Puree and Roasted Asparragus

 

Wedge Salad with Blue Cheese 

Cilantro-Lime Marinated Flank steak with Brown rice and Caramalized "Burned" Broccoli

 

Caesar Salad with fresh Croutons

Homemade Turkey Meatballs with Tomato Sauce, Linguini Pasta and sauteed Snow Peas

 

Each family has one chef paired to cook their dinners during the work week.  Personal Chefs go grocery shopping each day, arriving to our clients homes with the freshest produce, seafood, and ingredients available.  With a chef in your home, that means no menu planning, shopping, cooking, or clean up!  Just time with the family at the dinner table, and the enjoyment of home-cooked food.  Oh, and of course a kitchen filled with the aroma of home cooking.  For more information about our services, click here.



Hire a Personal Chef to bring your Family Back to the Dinner Table

The summer months are just about over, that is if you have school aged children. The kids are getting ready to go back to school and that means even busier schedules, more transporting the kids around, and typically a heavier workload in the office. How do families these days find time to enjoy healthy meals together at the dinner table? Personal Chefs.

More and more families are depending on personal chefs to provide healthy, family meals one to seven nights of the week. With a personal chef, you don't need to worry about planning menus, going grocery shopping, following recipes, or cleaning your kitchen. All you need to do is show up, and enjoy the food, which is cooked in your own home.

There are a few different types of personal chef services, most notably the "fresh cooking" and the "freeze-and-go" styles. Atlanta Personal Chef Service cooks fresh, visiting clients homes every day the family plans to eat at home together. They start the day picking the freshest ingredients and then cook the food to be enjoyed that evening. "Freeze-and-go" personal chefs will visit a clients home less frequently, and one day may make up to five different entrees, which they will freeze for their clients later consumption. While this is typically the cheaper option, unfortunately the food isn't as tasty nor can it deliver the nutritional quality of fresh meals.

If you're worried that your family will be strapped for time this fall, and you're looking for a practical solution to bring your family together for home-cooked dinner every night, look no further than Atlanta Personal Chef Service. We have a team of professional personal chefs, who each hold a degree in the culinary arts and years of cooking experience, who can help bring your families back to the dinner table. Please contact us if you have any questions!

What’s cooking this week at Atlanta Personal Chef Service?

At Atlanta Personal Chef Service, we love hosting dinner parties, but we’re also cooking Monday through Friday.  Some of our clients hire us to cook for them every night of the work-week, which frees up their schedules to spend time with their families instead of worrying about dinner.  So, what would be more fitting than to give you a sample menu of what we cook week in and week out?  Below is the actual menu of what we cooked for one of our clients last week.  Maybe it will even give you some ideas of family dinners to try for yourself!  If you’re thinking about hiring a chef to cook dinner, even for a few days out of the week, contact us to see if we might be the personal chef service for you.

Monday

Arugula Salad

Honey Lime Roasted Chicken with Wild Rice Sweet Potato Hash and Zucchini

Tuesday

Seasonal Fresh Fruit Salad

Seared Tilapia with Spaghetti Squash and Roasted Eggplant

Wednesday

Spinach Salad

BBQ Skirt Steak, Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Collard Greens

Thursday

Grilled Ahi Tuna Avocado Salad

Crab cake with Corn Crab Chowder

Friday

Roasted Leg of Lamb, Butternut Squash Purée, Roasted Asparagus

Chocolate Soufflé

Mark’s Meatballs and Three Cheese Stuffed Zucchini

Mark's Meatballs and Three Cheese Zucchini

Tonight’s dinner entrée is both beautiful, healthy, and can easily be made gluten-free! These home-made meatballs have been named after Mark, one of our clients, since he requests them so often. Served with the meatballs are three-cheese stuffed zucchini. Preparing these zucchini “wraps” (should you be looking for a special name for them) deliver great taste and vegetables in a unique way. While traditional ravioli would be stuffed with a similar cheese mixture, we’ve replaced the carb laden pasta part with a healthy veggie alternative. And to pull together the entrée, the entire dish is served on a bed of homemade tomato sauce and then drizzled with fresh parsley.

Atlanta Personal Chef Service will help your family return to the dinner table by making tasty, yet healthy, meals like this one pictured for dinners during the week. We take the hassle out of dinner, without having to sacrifice taste or health, by choosing unique, sophisticated menus for our clients, and preparing each meal fresh right in their homes. Want to find out more about our weekly meal service? Read about it on our website here.

Themed Dinner Parties in Atlanta

If you’re going to host a dinner party, you’ll want one type of coherent theme to link all the courses together.  It may be a single main ingredient, or cuisine of a chosen country, or a similar color palette.  For last week’s party, our clients requested an Italian themed menu, so we chose plates which highlighted Italian flavors and ingredients, while offering a tasteful break from the typical idea of “pizza and pasta.”  We typically provide our clients with a few different menu options, which they can then pick and choose particular starters, entrees, and desserts from.  For example, we’ll suggest three different Italian inspired salads, and ask them to pick their favorite.  Since all the options already are within the particular theme, any selections will work well together.  Below is a picture of the chosen menu for a dinner party we hosted last week in Buckhead, Atlanta.

Dinner Party Menu displayed on place setting

For more sample dinner party menus created by Atlanta Personal Chef Service, click here.

Chocolate Challah Bread Pudding Recipe



Chocolate Challah Bread Pudding with Vanilla Ice Cream



Atlanta Personal Chef Service will start to post a series of recipes that you can try yourself at home.  We've cooked these for clients, and they're absolute favorites.  The first recipe, posted below, is a recipe by Chef Patricia Homma, who designed this special chocolate treat for clients she regularly cooks for.  While Challah bread pudding has recently gained popularity among the Jewish community as a different spin on a way to break the fast held over the holiday Yom Kippur, this comforting dish is a warm treat for anyone, on any occasion.

Chocolate Challah Bread Pudding - makes 6 individual servings

· 1/2 of a loaf of Challah Bread
· 1/3 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips
· 1 cup of heavy cream
· ½ cup of milk
· ¼ cup of condensed milk
· ¼ cup of walnuts chopped
· 1 whole egg

Preparation:

· Dice the Challah bread and let it sit over night or until it gets stale
· Combine the cream, milk, and condensed milk and bring to a simmer
· Pour the chocolate chips into a bowl and pour the milk mixture on top
· Stir until the chocolate chips are melted and well incorporated into the cream mixture
· Whisk in the egg
· Fold in the chopped walnuts and the Challah bread
· Place in individual ramekins and bake on a sheet pan at 375 degrees for 15 minutes

Serve with vanilla ice cream and enjoy!