Three Day Chef Brad Event, RIverside CA.

Kamut Baby Kiwi Salad

    I love these three day teaching events.   I will explain what one is first and then you can take a visual tour.  A three day event is an event in someones home.  The hostess opens up her home for three days of cooking.  We do three classes each day and usually we start the night before with a Stake Enrichment or Women's group class.  This class is free and gives everyone the opportunity to meet me.  After that the real fun begins.  Three classes each day from bread baking to pressure cooking, from basic grains class to salads and breakfast foods and a lot more.  The last class is usually a hands on experience dinner class.  That is where everyone comes, most are couples,  and we all prepared an amazing feast.  I personally love this class the most.  It is amazing to see everyone cooking and enjoying each other.

     There is a charge per person for each class and we also open it up for a volunteer in each class to assist me and the hostess in preparation and cleanup.  It is a wonderful time and so worth the effort and money spent.  Actually the classes are really cheap, they are around $40 per person.  If you attend more then one you get a discount.   I love doing these events and when I spend three days in someones home we become life long friends.  Food has a way of doing that to relationships.  It adds dimension and strength to the friendship like nothing else can.  I do believe and the more I do these the more I believe that a "Chef Brad Event" will change your life forever.  They have changed mine and countless others who have attended.  To book one you can send me an e-mail to www.chef@chefbrad.com.  We will send you all the information needed to set up a Chef Brad Event in your city.  

A happy face.

Sweet, Wonderful CinnamonRolls

A happy face is worth a thousand words.

     In one of the classes we did cinnamon rolls and sandwich breads.  Everyone loved them,  especially when I tell them that a healthy cinnamon roll will never happen in my class.  I do a lot of healthy things in my classes, but cinnamon rolls are not one of them.  A real cinnamon roll should be sticky and dripping with butter and frosting and the dough should be light and heavenly.  

Papaya Fruit Salad

Another Happy Face

This is so good.

I need a bigger plate.  

We all find great friends at a Chef Brad Event.

One of the many classes taught. 

Chef Brad, this is the best cinnamon roll I have ever eaten.  

Happy, Happy, day.   From the young to the old. The woman in the back is the oldest
person ever to attend one of my events.  96 years old.  

Great messes only mean great taste.  

This is the Happy Hostess.  Odalisa Nelson.

Home made flour tortillas. 

Black Quinoa Crab Cakes

Oven Roasted Mexican Street Corn

This woman really could pass as the Bette Midler look alike.
Maybe she is Bette Midler.  

Farro Risotto and Pan Fried Crab Cakes

Friends enjoying the evening.

This is the group, enjoying the meal they prepared.

The Nelsons,  it was great the way they opened their home.

Everyone is happy with great food and good company.

The "Bette Midler" look alike won the Compact Bosch

Clean up is always worth it when you realize what just happened.

cinnamon

         Food is so powerful and nothing can bring people together and create fun and long lasting bonds like food.  We often under estimate the power of food and what it can accomplish if we do it right.  The right way is opening up our hearts and homes and feed those we love and those we don't love yet.  We always end up loving those we feed and the ones we already love, the love deepens.  Any time food in involved it turns a gathering into something deeper and more meaningful.  I guess that is why I love Chef Brad Events, it all about food and people and I always leave having established life long friendships.   I really hope to see you at a future Chef Brad Event.  Chef Brad~America's Grain Guy

For the Recipes,  You have to attend the Event.  When you do you get all the recipes for all the food created by Chef Brad

September Third Sunday Dinner Report

My Saratoga Jack saves the day once again.

  The Saratoga Jack is amazing.  I am able to cook alot of grains up ahead of time and just add them to what ever I am cooking.  Third Sunday Dinner is the perfect example of just how useful the cooker can be.  I cooked up whole grain splet, barley, and brown rice together.  I just brought it to a boil and place the pan in the Thermal Cooker.  Left it out over night.  Oh,  I almost forgot,  I added Penzey's Italian Sausage Seasoning to the grains.  I put in three tablespoons when I added the grains.  The grains tasted just like Italian Sausage.  Amazing.

Cooked Barley, spelt, and brown rice.

    Here are the grains cooked in the Saratoga Jack Thermal Cooker.  Cooked to perfection.
















         I added the grains to the large roaster pot that I have.  I use it often because of the size and I can just let it simme all day.  Just waiting for an extra large electric pressure cooker.

Cooked Grains added to the large roasting pan.

I love grains.  

Grains added to the sauce made it perfect and ohh so tasty.

Fresh peppers and onions.

Pan baked oven rosemary flat bread.

I always add carrots to the sauce.  

Watermelon is a treat all the time.

These boys are great.   Justin, Justin, and Denson

The happy group, part of the happy group.

The Ice Cream cones were a big hit.  

Fix food and the youth will come.  

I love everyone that comes to dinner.   Food is a
great way to make friends.  

The food is gone, it goes fast.  

Happy onlookers.

Happy boys, leftovers, when there are some are always appreciated.

Don't you just love the Mormon Missionaries.  They are
the cream of the crop in the youth of today.  

   This month I served pasta, egg noodles, with a wonderful whole grain pasta sauce.  No meat,  I used grains cooked with Penzeys sausage seasoning,  Tuscan Sunset, another Penzeys spice, tomatoe sauce, olive oil, red bell peppers, onion, garlic, and 5 lbs. of baby carrots.  After I cooked the grains,  I placed it all in a large pot and let it cook on low for 6 hours,  it was great.  No it was amazing.

     We made a tomato grain salad with fresh basil and peppers.   Fresh baked rosemary flat bread, tossed salad, and for dessert, we served Ice Cream cones.

     The weather is cooling so outside dining is great.

     It has been great to hear that others have started Third Sunday Dinners,  Second Sunday Dinners, and a friend recenlty told me that one a month was a little hard so they are doing 5th Sunday Dinners.  What ever works for you will bless the lives of so many.  Greatest joy to you in all your food adventures.  Chef Brad~America's Grain Guy

Whole Grain Oat Buttermilk Bread

My newly rebuilt Bosch Comfort plus.  I have had this machine for years and years.  It has been a work horse and with the overhaul I am sure it will be a work horse for years to come.   With the stainless steel bowl I can get 8 to 9 ~ 2 lb. loaves of fresh baked bread.

Old fashioned oats soaking in hot water.

      I love making bread and while I was making Ketchup the other day I had some spare time on my hands so I decided to make bread.  When I bake bread I feel that if I am going to do it I need to make the best out of it.  So I like to bake a lot of loaves at a time.  That is what I love about my Bosch and the Stainless Steel bowl.  I love how I can get so many loaves out of it and that means there is more to give away.

Dough Conditioner 

I love Wheat Montana Flours,  available now at almost all stores.

The dough,  It is lovely.  Nothing like fresh mixed dough.  

I like to let the dough raise for a few
minutes before forming the loaves.

This is the batch from the Stainless bowl.  Four 2 lb. loaves and
eight small giveaway loaves.  They each weigh 11 oz.  

The finished product, fresh baked oat buttermilk bread.

   Whole Grain Oat Buttermilk Bread   Large Batch  If using regular Bosch bowl, cut the recipe in half

9 cups hot water

3 cups oats, old fashioned rolled

1 cup Xagave

1 cup canola oil

3/4 cup buttermilk powder

1/4 cup dough conditioner

1 tablespoon salt

1/3 cup instant yeast

16 cups fresh ground whole wheat flour

Natural white flour or artisan white flour

In bowl add the hot water and oats.  Let them soak for 5 to 8 minutes.  Add Xagave, oil, buttermilk powder, dough conditioner, and salt.  Place half the flour on top and place the yeast on top of the flour,  turn on mixer and add more flour until dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl.  Knead for 6 minutes and remove from bowl and let set for 10 minutes.  Divide into loaves and form them.  Place into sprayed pans and let rise to double.  Bake in a 400 degree preheated oven at 335 degrees until bread is done.  About 30 minutes.  

Bread Making can be fun and exciting.  If you are not enjoying the experience you are doing something wrong.  Or you are not using a Bosch Mixer.  I have found that anyone can make bread with the proper equipment and the proper ingredients.  Greatest success to you in your bread making adventures.  Chef Brad~America's Grain Guy