Eliminate any doubt that you CAN learn to cook.

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I help people every week to learn to cook and yet I’m approached all of the time by people telling that that they can’t cook. I’m here to tell you that you can cook, in fact, I believe that you just don’t have the right information about cooking. Think about it, saying that you can’t cook is like saying that you’ve lost something, right? If you’ve lost a leg, then you might say, “I can’t walk.” But what have you lost to be able to say that you can’t cook?

Listen, you’re not born knowing how to cook, none of us is and the fact that you don’t know how to cook is not your fault. If cooking wasn’t a family hobby or if you didn’t have a mother or grandmother to teach you, then you’ve been left to get cooking information from recipe books and celebrity chefs. And I know that that means, they always let you down! They may have brighter colors, prettier to look at and be more entertaining than grandma, but cook books and celebrity chefs don’t teach you how to cook.

I had a student come to class once and tell me a story about how wonderful her Grandmother’s lasagna was. In an effort to ensure that the legacy of her Grandmother’s lasagna lived on, she got the recipe from her Grandmother and went home to create the masterpiece making sure that she followed the recipe exactly. Lo and behold, it didn’t hold a candle to the Grandmother’s lasagna. When she confronted her Grandmother, she said, “Well, I never follow that recipe anyway.”

Recipes let everyone down. In the end, when following the cooking information that a recipe gives to you and it doesn’t come out right, you think you don’t know how to cook…that you can’t learn to cook. You have doubts creep into your thoughts, “Everybody cooks with recipes, right? I’m the only one who can’t make a recipe look like the photo in the book.”

Wrong!

You’re not the only one who can’t make a recipe turn out great, you’re one of everyone. Everyone can’t cook at one point in their life.

Everyone can’t cook to one degree or another and to be a great cook:

You don’t have to be a celebrity chef
You don’t have to know the difference between escarole and escargot
You don’t have to know how to bake a cake
You don’t have to know how to open a clam
You don’t have to know how to make beef bourguignon

So what cooking information do you need to have to know to learn to cook? You already know it!

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4 Steps to Avoiding the Food Police

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By avoiding cooking healthy and not eating nutritious foods, you have been committing crimes against your stomach. I used to be a repeat offender until I came up with 4 steps that have kept the food police away.

Here’s how you can work off the crimes against your stomach:

1. Eat Purposely: Stop, sit down, and it’s time to eat. Bring back actual meal time, even if it’s at your desk. Don’t eat on the run, stop eating in your car, don’t eat while you are trying to accomplish other tasks. By not focusing on your food, you are making it easier to eat unhealthy foods. Slow down and you will begin to appreciate better foods as you pay more attention to what you are putting in your mouth.

2. Better Breakfast: Start eating a breakfast of whole grains, granola and fresh fruit every morning. Stay away from the one-handed, on-the-go breakfast as these are usually very heavily laden with salt and calories.

3. Grocery Store Lunch: Go to the grocery store, that’s where the food is! The real, whole food, nutritious food that your body needs. This is where you can get a freshly prepared sandwich, salad, Odwalla juices, nuts and granola bars. Stay away from the drive-thru, fast food restaurants, and the pizza place, all of which will keep you from eating healthy.

4. Methods vs. Recipes: At dinner time, practice basic, simple cooking methods, not complicated recipes. Complicated recipes have ingredients that you may not be familiar with, are hard to find or may be difficult to understand. By practicing basic cooking methods, you could, for example, make pasta and cook a chicken breast instead. That’s so much healthier than having someone ring your doorbell and deliver your dinner in a cardboard box or a paper bag!

The more you cook and eat nutritious, healthy food, the more you’ll crave nutritious, healthy food. You’ll sleep better, your anxiety levels will go down and your body will feel healthier overall. Remember, I’m talking from experience and I can tell you that I started craving better foods more, and bad foods less.

You can too! Get over your fear of cooking by learning basic, simple cooking methods. You’ll feel better too, and of course, you’ll get the food police off of your back.

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What Would You Hide if The Food Police Raided Your Kitchen?

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So, you’ve been committing crimes against your stomach instead of cooking healthy, nutritious food. Maybe you’re thinking that it’s not so bad, I mean, what’s wrong with eating pre-packaged foods, processed foods, frozen foods, foods with ingredients you can’t say, much less spell? What’s wrong? Well, it’s a crime to treat your body that way! What do you think your body does with all of those ingredients? It’s not only unhealthy, I want to know what you think you would do if the Food Police were to catch you committing your crimes.

What would you do?

Well, of course, you would have excuses! Isn’t that what we do when we’re doing something that we know is wrong? Sure it is! And, I’ve come up with a list of excuses that the Food Police might hear from you…

The Speeding Excuse:

“Officer, I don’t have the time to cook.”
“I’m in a big hurry!”
“It’s just quicker and easier to go to the drive-thru.”

The Broken Speedometer Excuse:

“Officer, the oven temperature is off, so I can’t cook anything.”
“My oven just doesn’t work right and I don’t have the right pans.”
“I just can’t cook.”

The Impending Event Excuse:

“Officer, It’s an emergency, I’m a pregnant woman and I have to get to the drive-thru!”
“My kids have basketball tonight and this fast food place is on the way.”

I have to tell you that just as with real policemen, none of these excuses would soften the food police. However, there are some changes that you could make to your eating habits that might grant you some leniency from the food police.

If the food police are watching you:

Whole Fruit Breakfast: Eat an apple or your favorite piece of fruit each morning instead of your favorite muffin or other baked goods.

Whole Food Lunch: Instead of walking under the golden arches, if you were seen walking into the grocery store for lunch, returning with a salad, cooked chicken breast, or whole fresh fruit juice, the food police just might look the other way.

Healthy Dinner: If your house is bugged by the food police, you’ll want them to hear the sounds of a basic sauté method, the sizzle of a sauté pan, the oven opening and closing and the timer going off.

Cooking and eating more nutritious foods will help you to keep the food police at bay and even if they catch you committing the occasional crime against your stomach, you’ll be more likely to have the charges dismissed in open court.

In my next blog post, I’ll tell you how the charges against me have been dismissed.

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Are You Committing Crimes Against Your Stomach?

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People will see me or write to me and say, “But, Chef Todd, how can you possibly understand my fear of cooking? You cook beautiful, nutritious foods for thousands every week.” First of all, I haven’t always eaten or cooked nutritious food because healthy cooking wasn’t on my agenda and as far as the fear of cooking…well, I certainly do understand it, because I still have it.

Let me tell you a couple of stories that developed my fear of cooking:

Story #1 – I was the executive chef at a very large hospital, I was also a chef at the National Security Agency (NSA) in Washington D.C. and we fed 15,000 people breakfast and lunch every day. Talk about a moment for fear of cooking! In fact, on my first day on the job at NSA, I had to grill cases and cases of chicken breast (remember, 15,000 people!!). I had the non-stick spray in one hand and the chicken breast in the other and began to spray the chicken, put it on the grill, spray the chicken, put it on the grill (you get the picture) until I began to smell something foul. I looked down and to my shock and horror, I was spraying the chicken with stainless steel grill cleaner! I had to throw about 100 chicken breasts into the garbage on my first day on the job.

Story #2 – This is my catering horror story that could strike fear in anyone that cooks (professional or not). I was catering a very large wedding with approximately 450 people in attendance. I had a warmer loaded with food for all of the wedding guests and placed it in my catering van using a big lift gate. Everything was great, we took the first turn and there was a sound from the back of the van, but we continued until we got to the event. We opened the back of the van and the warmer was tilted on its side with gravy pouring out of the bottom and all of the food smashed against the front of the warmer.

My fear of cooking is on a professional level, and I can’t avoid it. If I tried, I would be out of business. You, on the other hand, you can avoid cooking, but it would be a crime. It would be a crime against your stomach and your entire body. How do I know? Well, because I used to avoid cooking for myself at all costs.

I would cook all day long, beautiful nutritious food for my business, deliver my healthy cooking and think to myself, “Wow, now I’m tired and hungry!” And you know what I would do? I would pull my upscale catering van through the drive-through at McDonald’s and commit crimes against my stomach. I would be cooking healthy all day long and then not eat healthy myself.

And do you know how I know that I was committing crimes against my stomach? Because keeping myself from eating healthy, nutritious foods left me feeling badly, sometimes I would even feel depressed and lethargic, and on top of that, I didn’t sleep well. How embarrassing! To cook healthy foods all day long and then choose not to cook for myself and eat less than nutritiously sound foods. Even though I was cooking great food for others, I was committing a crime against myself.

Fast food, packaged foods, heavy-salt frozen foods are all ways to avoid being able to understand and handle whole foods. I have committed these crimes against my own stomach and now I want to help you with some community service on your intestines and start giving a few ideas to fill your stomach with more wholesome food, whether you cook or not.

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Get rid of Mageirocophobia once and for all!

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Mageirocophobia, fear of cooking, is not going to be cured with avoidance therapy. If your phobia is severe or life-threatening, you should seek professional help like cognitive-behavorial therapy, which focuses on replacing the reflexive negative thoughts about your fears with more rational thoughts instead. With severe Mageirocophobia, this is a definite first step if you are to overcome your fear and learn how to cook with confidence.

For those of you with less sever versions of Mageirocophobia, there are ways for you to reduce the effects that it has upon your life. We all have fears that we have immediate negative reactions to, but if you can do some positive self talk to replace those thoughts, it can get you through the fear and eventually past the fear.

For example, if you’re thinking, “This is never going to taste right.” Replace it with, “this is going to be a great meal,” or “everything will come out alright!” This may sound a little hokey, but hang with me. This works!

Many years ago, I went to a Brian Tracy seminar and he taught me something that I have carried throughout my life. If you’re feeling a little down in the dumps, stand in front of a mirror, look yourself in the eye and repeat, “I’m the best. I’m the best. I’m the best. I’m the best.” This really works. If you tell yourself, “It’s alright, it will come out alright,” it will, in fact, come out great in the end.

So, if you’re thinking, “I haven’t cooked this meat enough, someone might get sick,” instead, remind yourself, “I’ve used a thermometer so I know it’s safe.” If you’re thinking, “No one is going to like this meal,” replace it with, “It doesn’t have to be perfect, just cooking a nice meal is great and my family will appreciate it.” You could also tell yourself, “I’ve tasted everything, so I know the seasonings are correct,” or, “I’ve chosen a simple recipe that’s not too hard.”

Reassuring yourself is a wonderful way for you to begin to eliminate the fear of cooking and embrace learning how to cook in a way that brings joy into your life and others. You should also be aware of the difference between “of poor quality” and “not to my liking”. Sometimes your taste may be different than someone else’s. You may put additional red pepper flakes on a dish which makes it not to someone else’s liking, but does not mean that it’s poor quality. I came across this situation several times in the catering business. Don’t let this impede you from learning how to cook.

If your phobia isn’t overwhelming, there is a direct approach to getting over your fear of cooking forever. However, keep in mind that you need to make sure that you’re ready for each step or you could make your phobia worse.

3 Steps to Conquering Mageirocophobia

1) Pick One Method – choose one cooking method that you can repeat with confidence (for example, if you know how to make a grilled cheese sandwich, you know a saute method, add some tomato or ham. If you can make soup, you know a moist cooking method, you can add some shrimp and expand from there and build your confidence.)

2) Pick 3 Confident Spices – Find 3 spices that you like together and feel a little more confident in their flavor profiles. It might be basil, garlic and oregano (Italian seasonings), it might be cumin, coriander and red pepper (Mexican seasonings). Get these three spices and begin using them in different dishes to practice with quantities of the seasonings and the flavors that they produce with different foods.

3) Get a Thermometer – Getting an instant read thermometer will allow you to quantify when things are done rather than guessing.

Guessing is something that you are going to try to eliminate from your cooking method. Guessing is the biggest point of stress in cooking. Guessing puts great mystery and inconsistency in your cooking and inconsistency will increase your fear of cooking whether you’re cooking with a recipe or not.

Then, once you’re psychologically ready, invite a friend or relative over for a cooked meal. You’ll be facing your fears directly when you cook for someone else. And, by repeating this process over and over again, your confidence will increase, your enjoyment of cooking will increase, you’ll want to learn more about cooking and completely eliminate your fear of cooking.

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You don’t have to suffer these effects of fear of cooking

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In my last blog post, I explained the 5 signs of the fear of cooking that many people suffer from in deciding that they would like to learn to cook. Because the kitchen plays a particularly important emotional role in many people’s lives, not knowing how to cook can have devastating effects. Some people that have come to me to learn to cook have told me stories that not only explain their fear of cooking but have made it almost impossible for them to learn how to cook.

One of the ways that fear of cooking is intensified is through smells. Your sense of smell has a powerful links to your memories. In fact, I’m sure that most of you have memories that come flooding into your mind when you smell cookies baking or a pot roast. I have strong memories when I smell the chlorine from a pool that remind me of swimming and snack bar hamburgers.

Memories are not always positive. For example, I had one woman that came to my cooking school and told me that she can’t cook. Later in the evening as she was learning how to cook (funny how well cooking by method works), she explained to me that as a child, every time she went into the kitchen, her mother would scream, “Get out of the kitchen. You’re going to mess everything up. You’re going to ruin things. This is not a place for children.” No wonder she had a fear of cooking!

Let’s look a little more deeply into the 10 ways that the fear of cooking may affect your life:

Anxiety – this can come from the thought of the “impending” meal and not knowing what to cook or how to cook.
Depression - eating the same things over and over again can cause depression and place a person in a lull where they lose the desire to learn to cook.
Lethargy - most often this comes from eating foods that aren’t good for us. In particular, eating empty calories or fast food over and over again.
Embarrassment - are you the person that always brings napkins to the pot luck? Not knowing how to cook can cause embarrassment when you never bring a meal to gatherings.
Loneliness - eating home cooked meals has the potential to bring families together. Without home cooked meals, there may be a sense of loneliness because so much conversation and socializing occurs over a cooked meal.
Non-Reciprocation – Have you been invited to dinner by your friends multiple times and never returned the favor? This can cause a feeling of being a “deadbeat”.
Poor provider – Not knowing how to cook can lead to a lack of variety for your family and feeling guilty from not feeding your children healthy foods.
Taker/not giver – Always depending on your spouse or partner to cook for you can make you feel like a taker and never being able to give back to the cook in the family.
Spend–thrift - Do you have kitchen gadget that were gifts or purchased that you don’t know how to use? Do you have a multi-thousand dollar range that makes popcorn? This type of guilt can intensify the fear of cooking.
Money stress – When one has a fear of cooking and doesn’t learn how to cook, there is a tendency to spend more money on take-out foods which can cause anxiety around money and cooking.

You don’t have to suffer these effects of the fear of cooking! These are exactly the types of feelings and thoughts that drive me to continue to help people to understand how easy it is to learn to cook using simple cooking method. Having an understanding of how foods go together without using a recipe can not only make the fear of cooking go away, but will enable you to cook anytime anywhere with confidence. You will not only know how to cook but will never suffer from the devastating effects of the fear of cooking again!

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Do you recognize the 5 signs of Mageirocophobia keeping you out of the kitchen?

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If you have a fear of cooking, be assured, you are in good company. I have literally cooked for a 1000 people on many occasions and I’ve been fearful in those moments. But you don’t have to let the fear of cooking keep you from learning how to cook like a chef. Honestly. In fact, learning basic cooking method can help you to eliminate your fear of cooking while you learn to cook!

The fear of cooking comes in different forms and one of the best ways for you to eliminate a fear is to understand the source of the fear. You may find out that your fear is much easier to overcome once it has a name. Overcoming your fear will not only help you to learn how to cook like a chef, but will allow you to eat better food. In my desire to help you to cook like a chef, I feel that it’s necessary to explain the 5 sources of Mageirocophobia (fear of cooking).

Mage –iroco – phobia is the fear of cooking.

It can be the fear of cooking for a large group, which we all have, or cooking for two.

Fear of causing illness: The first fear of cooking revolves around the idea of how food may cause illness in those that you serve it to. Some of this has been accelerated out of proportion because of the “foodborne illness” stories that make headlines in the media. On the other hand, you may be someone that is actually more concerned about undercooking and poisoning someone. Please understand that this category of “fear of cooking” is easily overcome by understanding some basic cooking rules.

Fear of serving bad food: This fear of cooking is mainly associated with someone who is uncertain about their ability to cook like a chef in the first place. In fact, they may even doubt their ability to mix flavors or understand when an item is done cooking. This person will typically overcook or undercook dishes on a regular basis.

Over-perfectionist: This person’s fear of cooking is a little less pervasive and less obvious. This person will fret about how their food looks or worry incessantly about how well their dish is received. They will sometimes display a heightened fear of dinner parties or providing enough variety for their family.

Fear of Cooking Process: This person is hypersensitive to the idea of potentially cutting or burning themselves in the cooking process. Their fear of cooking is obvious as they are also noticeably afraid of new techniques or techniques that they haven’t ever used in their journey to learn to cook.

Fear of recipes: Recipes are complicated and full of ingredients that most home cooks don’t use or have in their pantry which allows the fear of cooking to cripple their creativity in the kitchen. Another difficulty with recipes is having to have very precise measurements that may or may not work for the overall desired effect. What is the desired effect? Having people tell you that you cook like a chef.

The fears that are listed here are a big reason why I do what I do. I know that I can help someone to get rid of their fear of cooking by simply helping them learn to cook using simple cooking method. This method encompasses a more thorough understanding of how certain foods go together, how to create a meal without a recipe and stop worrying because you will cook like a chef!

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Valentine’s Day Dessert Ideas

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After you’re through melting chocolate for Valentines Day candy, start thinking about a romantic Valentines dessert. The secrets of egg custard will enable you to make creme brulee or zabaglione, a romantic valentines day dessert.

I’ve been a fan of the incredible, edible, egg. It’s nature’s perfect food. Nutritionally balanced, and filling a long list of roles in the kitchen, it’s a great friend to chefs and home cooks alike.

Eggs leaven baked goods, they bind items together, they combine two un-mixable objects, they add color to breads and pies, they’re perfect by themselves, and they thicken liquids too!

Egg proteins “coagulate”, they stiffen and shrink at 165f or 74c. You can use this knowledge to make scrambled eggs, or to slowly bring the egg proteins to this temperature threshold, combined with milk or cream, to make a thickened custard.

You’ve got a great skill in the kitchen if you can treat an egg yolk so delicately as to have it thicken your liquid without getting bits of scrambled eggs in your custard. This ability can be transferred to cold sauces, salad dressings, creamy desserts, and even used in a unique way to bind crab meat together. That’s the improvisation I used to win the Chesapeake Flavor Crab Cook-Off in Annapolis, Maryland last year.

While the other contestants were using the typical mayonnaise to bind their crab cakes, I used my knowledge of egg custard to make a creamy crab entree without scooping mayonnaise into the mix. You can see the video Chef Todd Wins Crab Cook Off on my Facebook page.

Today’s video will show you how to use egg yolks to thicken liquids and make an egg custard. Once you’ve mastered this skill, you’re only a step away from Creme Brulee’, or Zabaglione, two romantic Valentines Day Dessert Ideas.

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Melting Chocolate for Valentines Day

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Rather than buying Valentines Day candy, how about melting chocolate and making your own Valentines Day candy this year?

The key to melting chocolate for Valentines Day, Easter candy, chocolate lollipops, or any homemade chocolates is melting chocolate to a precise temperature, called chocolate tempering.

Real chocolate should have four basic ingredients: Cocoa, Cocoa butter, Sugar, and Vanilla. Any chocolate bar that lists things like vegetable oil or palm kernel oil cannot call themselves chocolate. Chocolate for Valentine’s day candy may also have soy lecithin as an emulsifier, and milk.

Theobroma_cacao-frutos Chocolate starts out in the seeds of the yellow fruit of the cacao (Ka-Kow) tree. There are about 40 almond-sized beans in each of the cacao fruits. The beans are harvested and treated a lot like coffee. Cacao beans are left in the sun to dry and ferment. They are then crusted, revealing the valuable “cocoa nib”

Cacao Beans in Pod

Cocoa nib is further processed into “chocolate liquor” (has no alcohol), or “chocolate mass”. This the resulting fat or butter from the processing of the nib. This is what gives real chocolate it’s wonder mouth-feel.

Melting chocolate isn’t as simple as just applying heat and watching it melt. If you’d like to create your own valentines day candy, then the chocolate needs to be “tempered” so it will return to it’s solid, crisp, shiny state after melting.

Tempering chocolate is not difficult, but you must contain a lot of caution in melting chocolate this way. There is a slight 10 degree Fahrenheit range to which you must melt the chocolate gently, and then “seed” the melted chocolate with cold pieces so that the warm sugar may assume the crystal structure of the cold sugar in the chocolates.

It’s more fun, and a lot less expensive to make your own Valentines Day Chocolates by learning the correct method to melting chocolate to create your own Valentine’s Day Candies.

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Worst Cooks in America Finale

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The Blackboard is Gone

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The final two contestants on Worst Cooks in America have learned to cook like a chef! They’ve done it in only ten days!

How do I know that Jenni and Rachael have absorbed a few tricks about the science of cooking? It’s because there’s no blackboard in the final episode of the Food Network reality mini-series. Once the written recipes were removed and they had to concentrate on basic cooking methods, even the worst cooks in America were cooking gourmet to fool top critics.

While early weeks concentrated on creating controversy and tension for the cameras, the last two episodes have shown that it takes very little actual education to gain cooking confidence.

If you don’t know how to boil water, it’s okay. It’s not your fault that you don’t know how to cook. Cooking like a chef is not an innate skill. You weren’t born having taken cooking classes in-utero. So, it’s okay to start now.

We’ve witnessed on Worst Cooks in America that just a few cooking method tidbits can create a curiosity in anyone. This passion then seeks out cooking lessons, online cooking classes, or even a school of cooking.

I’ve heard from two of the contestants on this show, and they mention a sudden passion for cooking videos, cooking websites and a desire to learn to cook.

This isn’t because they enjoy following a recipe on a blackboard. It’s not because they like the cooking method of being yelled at by a chef under tight time constraints. They love what they create from their hearts and minds.

Every contestant on this show has experienced what I teach people all over the globe on a daily basis. Any school of cooking, even online cooking classes, or cooking videos that ignore written recipes to focus on basic cooking methods will empower you with confidence. Confidence leads to risk-taking and curiosity. Curiosity needs to be fed information.

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but “Thank you Food Network, for finally teaching someone to cook.” And thank you for proving the point I’ve been making for years. Learn to cook by basic cooking methods and forget the written recipe, especially if it’s written on a blackboard.

Previous Posts about Worst Cooks in America:
Finally! Cook-fidence!
The Flavors in Jennifer Cross’ Head Saved her Butt
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Worst Cooking Instructors in America
Are You the Worst Cook in America?

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Eliminate any doubt that you CAN learn to cook.

4 Steps to Avoiding the Food Police

What Would You Hide if The Food Police Raided Your Kitchen?

Are You Committing Crimes Against Your Stomach?

Get rid of Mageirocophobia once and for all!

You don’t have to suffer these effects of fear of cooking

Do you recognize the 5 signs of Mageirocophobia keeping you out of the kitchen?

Valentine’s Day Dessert Ideas

Offer True Romance This Year!

Melting Chocolate for Valentines Day

Offer TRUE Romance This Year

Worst Cooks in America Finale

The Blackboard is Gone

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