Blissful Cooking Connections Featuring Celebrity Chef George Duran

To kick off Cooking Connections in grand style, we held a live cooking class onstage at Blissdom (the conference for bloggers) in Nashville and on the web with celebrity chef George Duran. It was a blast interacting with George, the audience and participants online in the first virtual cooking school experience!

From February 2- March 16, nearly 100 of your favorite bloggers will be teaching classes here in The Motherhood and you all are invited to join in, ask questions, share your recipes, tips, tricks and great ideas for making cooking for your family joyful, social and fun! Cooking Connections is brought to us through a partnership with ConAgra Foods.

To get the full feel for the awesomeness of the kick off event, check out this video we played at the start of the class with George.

http://youtu.be/d3HKkwaph5I

George cooked up a yummy dish for everyone – chicken with balsamic tomatoes -from ReadySetEat.com. http://www.readyseteat.com/recipes-Chicken-with-Balsamic-Tomatoes-5254.html So delish!!

While he was cooking, George and Cooper took questions from the web and George shared some great tips and stories, among them:

– There are two kinds of balsamic vinegar: the cheap one and the expensive one! According to George, use the cheap one for your cooking and the expensive ones in your salads!

– The best way to chop garlic without making your fingers smell like garlic … is not to touch the garlic. Ha! But if you do touch it, lemon juice will cut the smell.

– His favorite guilty pleasure is deep-fried cheesecake bites. (And because he is such and amazing guy, George actually brought special cheesecake for two lucky bloggers at Blissdom with him all the way from New York!) Watch George tell the story.

http://youtu.be/fA-DjppjD10

Be sure to read through the full transcript and here’s Cooper and Emily’s video introduction of Cooking Connections:

http://youtu.be/rz8vUrUNLzc

The classes coming up are:

Navigating Food Allergies
Cooking With Loved Ones
Creating an Efficient Kitchen
Healthier Meal Makeovers
Expanding Your Family’s Palate By Placating Picky Eaters
Sweet Treats
Cooking With Dad

Register now and mark your calendars!! It’s free, it’s online in TheMotherhood and going to be TONS of fun! themotherhood.com/cookingconnections

See the original Talk here: http://tmotherhood.wpengine.com/talk/show/id/62131