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Can you recommend a process/methodology in creating a recipe. Moving from following a recipe to creating a recipe.

Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

Char Nolan - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

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This event was on October 18, 2022

Join Chef Char Nolan in her virtual office as she welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to ask anything – from cooking techniques to course-specific questions, to how to turn your cooking passion into profit or simply hearing the perspective of a professional chef, Chef Nolan is ready to answer them all.

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Question

Jay Lawson

Can you recommend a process/methodology in creating a recipe. Moving from following a recipe to creating a recipe.?

Answer

I write everything in long hand because it's what I know when I have to write a recipe professionally, I do it all in long hand first and I like to take notes as I go along to sort of tweaking ingredients and a little bit of this take this out. Don't use this. So my suggestion would be to perhaps look online. There are many many recipe Foundation websites that you can use but I think starting from scratch with a notebook and a pen or a pencil is a really good way to go and I also want to throw in Jay that a lot of what we do in the kitchen is almost instinctual based on our preferences and our own flavors and taste and things like that. You can email me Jay. I might have some other ideas email me at Char@rouxbe.com. I hope that you have lots and lots of recipes that you are saving and getting ready to work with very good question. Thank you.

Char Nolan

Chef Instructor

Char Nolan is a serious crusader for plant-based education, armed with a degree in public health from Philadelphia’s Temple University. She teaches nutrition and plant-based cooking throughout Philadelphia, and in many underserved communities. Char holds a certificate in plant-based nutrition from eCornell and completed Rouxbe’s Plant-Based Professional Certification course in 2015. In 2019, Char completed post-graduate course work in social media marketing at the University of the Arts. When she is not cooking or teaching, she manages social media accounts for several plant-based influencers. Char prides herself on learning everything she knows about cooking from growing up in her grandparents’ Italian restaurant. Her favorite vegetables are Brussels sprouts and kale, of course. Char originally hails from Queens, NY, but has lived in Philadelphia most of her adult life. She is a former Peace Corps Volunteer.