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How-To Guides: Master your Cooking Skills with Chef Maika

Welcome to the "How-To" blog category, your ultimate resource for mastering essential cooking skills and techniques. If you're here as a beginner or an experienced home cook, education is the key to elevating your culinary creations, and I’m here to help as your personal chef and instructor.

These guides are crafted to simplify the process of preparing, cooking, and serving delicious meals with confidence.

Looking to take your skills further? Be sure to explore our online interactive cooking classes, where you’ll gain hands-on experience and personalized tips to perfect your craft.

Explore these helpful how-to guides:

  • Prepping and Cooking Mushrooms: Learn the best methods for cleaning, slicing, and cooking mushrooms to bring out their rich, earthy flavors.
  • Prepping Herbs Like a Chef: Discover techniques for washing, storing, and chopping fresh herbs to maximize their aroma and taste.
  • Cutting Chicken the Right Way: Master essential knife skills for cutting chicken efficiently and safely.

Explore these guides to refine your cooking skills, and don’t forget to check out our cooking classes for a truly transformative culinary experience!

  • Best Cast Iron Skillet Care | Cooking, Cleaning to Seasoning
  • Guide to Shrimp: How to Clean, Cook, and Choose the Best
  • How to Cut Chicken: Prepping to Cooking Tutorials
  • 15 Things to Know on How to Use a Wok
  • How to Make Multigrain Rice | Purple Rice Recipe
  • How to Make Homemade Tamarind Paste
  • Heart Healthy, High Smoke Point Oils for Cooking
  • Prepping Lamb
  • Best Tofu Press Guide: How to Prep Perfect Tofu
  • How to Prep and Cook Fish
  • Japanese Mandoline
  • Unlock the Power of Rubber Spatulas: Essential Cooking Tips & Techniques
  • How to Prep Sweet Peppers | Bell Peppers and More
  • How to Use Garlic in Cooking: Easy Tips for Beginners
  • Caribbean Thanksgiving Meal Prep Plan Ideas | 2024
  • Tips on How to Prepare and Cook Mushrooms
  • Prepping Mangoes
  • Scoville Scale and Chili Peppers
  • Prepping Gourds
  • Prepping Chili Peppers
  • How to Cook: Quick and Easy Rice Recipes
  • Salad Spinner
  • Zesting
  • Culinary Glossary
  • Prepping Herbs

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I’m Maika, a professionally trained chef, recipe developer, and culinary educator. For over a decade, I worked at major hotels such as the PGA National Resort, The Ritz-Carlon Hotel Company, Conrad Hilton, and W Hotel. As a lifetime passionate cook, my blog explores a world of flavors and experiments with recipes to create restaurant-quality dinners that will excite the food enthusiast's taste buds. Learn More →

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Sliced Peach Piri Piri Chicken with Fonio Kale Salad on a plate.

Pollotarian

Caesar Salad with soft-boiled Egg, roasted campari Tomatoes and Chili-Infused Croutons garnished with freshly grated parmesan cheese and cracked black pepper in a wide rim bowl.

Vegetarian

Gluten-Free

Dairy-Free

Grilled Zhug Ras el Hanout Lamb Chops and Tomato, cucumber, onion Salad served with a lemon-oregano dressing served with a grilled lemon.

Grain-Free

grilled marinated tofu on top of a warm roasted vegetable couscous salad on spicy basil romesco sauce in a wide rim bowl topped with micro greens.

Egg-Free

top view of the the Easy Spicy Crispy Chicken Tacos with Cholula Sour Cream sprinkled with fresh chopped cilantr on a flat white round plate with shallow straight sides.

Nut-Free

top view and close up the Lemon Calabrian Chili Chicken Orzo Soup in a wide rim bowl .

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