So excited that my first online course is now available

I have spent the last few months creating a course on Kitchen Basics, it covers knives, food hygiene, cooking methods and many more things.

If you would have a look at the course, then you can see some previews.

I am already on to my next course, Baking Basics. Love sharing these techniques, I am aiming at all of you who can not cook, new to cooking, need a refresher or suddenly having to cook due to a change in circumstances. I hope you enjoy .

Kitchen basics

Please give me feed back, or let me know of any other courses you would like me to create. If I can, I will.

Living life to the full.

My first TV show, lots of fun.

I had a lot of fun doing this show, it was per-recorded and listening to it bought back memories of my mums visit.

I hope you have time to watch this, fun fun fun..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Kdz63Wdyc

What am I up to

Life is so busy but fun at the moment. As I grow my Kitchen Coach business, I am having a blast.

I thought I would let you all know a course will be available soon on the Udemy platform, on Kitchen Basics, all about cooking styles, food safety, health and safety, equipment. I will let you know as soon as that goes live. I am anticipating it will happen in September, then I can get back to my first cook book, for new or young chefs. That will be coming out and available through Amazon, I expect that to be live by the end of November.

I have been asked by a number of people if I could do an App for weekly recipes, using ingredients off of a shopping list I provide, so all ingredients are used up. Apparently that would be useful, some of you are fed up with throwing food away or having food go stale, as you only need part of it for a recipe. I had a great suggestion from a friend today, that I should trail this on my blog, to see if it is really something you would all like, before I go to trouble of creating an App!! What a brilliant suggestion. So from mid September, I will be posting a shopping list and a recipe, and if you want more then you can just sign up for free and get the weeks recipes, and I will throw in a list of Kitchen essential foods for your store cupboard.

In case you did not see my YouTube video on filling a Butter crock pot, I am including it here.
Butter Crock pot video

 I would appreciate each one of you subscribing to my YouTube channel, Kitchen Coach.  You can do that here .That would help me a lot, and you can comment and let me know what other videos you would like there on my Facebook page here.

Wishing you all a Fabulous day.

Freggies and Kitchen Coach meet again at Orange COworking

Discovering I still have a love/hate relationship with technology

I am busy putting lots of videos up on YouTube, trying to master Instagram, am Periscoping frequently( depends on your definition of frequently) and of course lets not forget facebook with three pages to manage and twitter. What have I left out.

Oh my goodness.

I really mean that, there are days when I wonder if I have time to cook. When I become rich and famous- because I know famous does not always mean rich!- I will be letting someone who loves technology deal with all this 'stuff'. my head wants to explode.

Then I add to my techno waterfall and start making videos, editing and publishing them. I mean really did I think this through!

The good news is I am getting better, you can not always see my chopping board, but most of the time you can, I no longer quickly make video's in a tankini- what was I thinking, apart from heading to the pool with the family as soon as I had finished.

The good news is, I do love to cook, and that had been my saving grace. I get to put lots of recipes down on paper, and publish them. My children, and any grandchildren that follow will always be able to see me cooking and have family recipes. I think that is really amazing. it actually gives me goosebumps knowing I am using technology to leave a reminder of me for family to come. Of course I now and again wonder if YouTube will be around or useable, the way technology is advancing and changing. But lets all pretend it will be here, and then all my swearing and crying over a keyboard and computer screen will not be in vain.

So feel free to check out the videos, feel free to subscribe to my channel, Kitchen Coach, and please leave me messages and suggested recipes. I will enjoying adding them into my repertoire and getting them out there for the world to also enjoy and create in their own kitchen.

Here i am doing a live cooking show at Orange COworking, in Austin TX, we periscope these now, it has been fun for sure. No escaping.

have a Fabulous day folks

getting all excited about cooking today

I have spent a lot of time rushing around this week, but today I will be in my kitchen actually making video's, which will be fun. I aim to upload a video a day next week, so my YouTube channel starts to have real content for me.

I am meeting with a friend today as well to get my apron embroidered with my name and company name. I love setting up businesses. So many aspects and angels, but always fun.

I have had some specific requests this week for recipes, so I am going to be putting those on my web site also this weekend. If you have any requests, please just comment.

I learned this week that a pinny means nothing in America, I have to keep explaining it is an apron, so watch this space, a new name is happening today. All decided and I will be excited to announce it later. No point in me doing all this work setting up a business and nobody understands what it is all about from my name, but looks confused and needs a lengthy explication.

I have a series of workshops coming up soon, The Wise Woman's  series, which I will be holding with a talent friend, Teresa Zapp, a Yoga teacher for a long time, who's heart is all about being calm and centered.
The first one is Wise Woman make the most of every minute.
Teresa will be giving tips on breathing and other ways to stay calm and get through our very hectic days, I will showing cooking tips, scheduling tips and tricks, discussing ways to help busy woman get through there day/week with out feeling so exhausted but achieving so much. This will be on Wednesday August 5th, 2015, 10-3pm, in Austin TX, please message me if you would like more details. the normal price is $79, but we are doing an early bird special of $69 until July 20th. All drinks, snack and lunch is included. A Workbook with everything we are teaching you will be provided so you can make notes, although we will have put our tips and tricks in to the book already.

If you live in Austin, I am also hosting some Lunch and learns at Orange COworking, so if you are a member there, come along on Wednesday at noon, and see quick  recipes for a healthier life.

photo's of the recent decorating

It was fun while it lasted, Allan and I had fun decorating. We do what we can do, and bring in the experts for the rest. Although Allan has sanded and re-stained wooden floors for us before, we have such a huge area of wooden floors, this time we are going to get help!! I will admit to be very grateful for that.

Our recent projects are coming along, painting all done, and here are a few photo's for you.

The family room, nearly all put back together, no more paint samples on the wall.

So close, you can see the kitchen nook as well from this angel

about to be painted.

I LOVE this area now, so fresh and inviting. The colour is called Reviving green.

and another angel, to help you see the colour.

We have actually done Ben;s room as well, and the back hallway, so I will make sure to post pictures once they are tidy ( Ben's room) or finished- the hallway. I am on mission to keep the house looking great, with a clan of children running a muck and visitors galore, I sometimes if we will ever be finished. My kitchen needs a major overhaul, but i want a permanent outside one before I do the inside one. although this year with all the rain, my back yard is not such a great place.