Tomato Sauce
Our delicious and easy recipe for Tomato Sauce is a great addition to our Handmade Pasta, Raviolis, Potato Gnocchi or Lasagna Cupcakes! We even use this Tomato Sauce recipe as a base for our Albondigas (Spanish Meatballs). With the simple addition of carrot to add sweetness and tons of fresh herbs, leave this sauce chunky…
Perfectly Poached Eggs
Poaching eggs is an important technique to perfect in the kitchen, here at Taste Buds Kitchen we poach eggs for our Adult Brunch cooking class to top our Eggs Benedict and Eggs Florentine. We also teach this advanced technique to our older kids during cooking camps when they have team cooking challenges. What is…
Junior Chef of the Month: Sophie
TBK North Andover is so pleased to award Sophie with our Chef of the Month honor for July. Sophie joined us for a week as a Counselor in Training and wowed us with her creativity and plating skills! Sophie’s enthusiasm is contagious, and we love having her in the kitchen. Congratulations Sophie! Meet Sophie Age:…
How to Regrow Scallions
Scallions – also known as Green Onions or Spring Onions – are a delicious flavorful garnish for any dish! They are great to keep on hand to use whenever cooking. At Taste Buds Kitchen we use Scallions in salads, dips and as an elegant garnish to finish plating. Are you tired of buying fresh scallions…
How to Form a Cannoli Shell
Want a quick and easy way to form a cannoli shell? Wonton Wrappers! We love Cannoli. In addition to making them from scratch in our Taste of Italy adult class, our kid chefs love whipping them up in our summer camps and semester classes. Wonton Wrappers are not just for making wontons, here at TBK…
Junior Chefs of the Month: Varun and Owen
TBK North Andover is so pleased to award Owen and Varun with Chef of the Month honors for June. Owen and Varun dove right into their Around the World Italy semester classes this Spring, and they are currently planning to re-create each recipe we made in class for their families in an Italian feast. Congratulations…
How to Temper Chocolate
Chocolate dipped anything is delicious! There’s a trick to getting chocolate to harden back up with that special shine and snap when you bite into it! The trick is called “tempering” which means monitoring the temperature of the chocolate melting process to bring chocolate up to 110 degrees and then bringing it back down to…
Junior Chef of the Month: Donnelly
We’re proud to announce our Southlake Kitchen’s May Chef of the Month, Donnelly. He enjoys preparing and savoring all types of cuisine, both at TBK and at home with his family. He’ll try anything! His focus and attention to detail are fantastically impressive, and it shows in the culinary creations that Donnelly enjoys sharing with others. Do you…
TBK Featured in NYC Life’s Segment
Our friends from NYC Life came to TBK to film our Pasta Workshops for a short segment to be featured in the back-seat of taxis in NYC as part of their “Do It In A Day Series”. Thank you NYC Life. We love how it turned out. Now let’s get cooking!
La La’s Full Court Life Join Us
La La Anthony – wife of Carmelo Anthony of the New York Knicks – takes Kiyan to TBK for a play day with friend Christina Milian while filming La La’s Full Court Life. We loved having them! Click here to watch the video!
Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood Film at TBK
When in NYC, come to TBK! Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott visited NYC with her family while filming an episode for Tori & Dean. We loved cooking with Stella, Liam and a few of their friends. Our mac & cheese cupcakes, made with ricotta cheese – were a big hit with the whole group! …
On the Martha Stewart Show
It was an honor and thrill to make a Valentine’s Day arrangement out of Cupcake Liners with my friend Martha on The Martha Stewart Show. It was even more fun welcoming her to our Kitchen for a young chef’s Birthday Party. See you soon Martha! Click here to watch the video!