Month: November 2021

At Select Chef, one of our long-term goals is to break the stigma that is attached to having a personal chef. When most prospective members first hear about a modernized private chef service, their first thought or worry attends to the cost associated with this luxury service. However, our three course Select Chef private chef service is very comparable to the same prices as a fine dining restaurant. Here are a few innovative ways to use Select Chef.

Holiday Meals & Dinner Parties
The most enjoyable part of dinner parties with loved ones is the hosting, the entertaining and the ability to connect and catch up on old memories or new ones. However, the biggest drawback of hosting dinner parties is the seclusion from everyone while you are wearing multiple hats prepping, cooking, and tidying up afterwards. With Select Chef, your personal chef removes all the responsibilities of hosting, so you can truly enjoy the party! Take back your night with your Select Chef private chef.

Date Night
It doesn’t matter what you do, just who you do it with. Whether you are looking to spice up your typical date night or if you want to enjoy a night off together, your Select Chef personal chef is ready to make your night a great one! Your private chef will take lead in the kitchen, so you can use this time to reconnect while having an amazing culinary experience.

Girls Night/Guys Night
When it comes to a well-rounded person, a social group of friends is an aspect of that. It can be the stereotypical “girls night” or “guys night”, or if labels don’t necessarily matter, just a “friends night”, but a night where you laugh over old memories and create new ones. Your in-home chef will ensure that you are the star of the show because it’s true… you are! So, while we do the shopping, cooking and cleaning you have the time back to focus on what and who are most important.

Impress Out of Towners
We all have out of town family members and friends who frequent us in the Greater Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex that we are either trying to impress or just enjoy a calm, relaxing evening in with, and we have the solution for you. At Select Chef, we treat you like the VIP that you are. If you are trying to impress your in-laws or friends from out of town, you can make a specific note in the checkout process, and we will inform your personal chef to help make you shine!

Networking
Your very own personal chef on your schedule is a great opportunity to break up what can be a mundane, office monotony. A private chef for the night can provide the break that you deserve, not to mention a great team bonding activity. We encourage our clients to use our private chef service to impress their bosses, too! Going that extra mile to ensure your boss (and you) get that special attention usually goes a long way. Just type in the notes, and let us do the rest!

Bonus
A bonus way to use Select Chef is the “just because” reason. Founder, Christine Henry-Musa, created Select Chef to allow our clients to have more time back in their lives. And we’ve seen just that! Clients take advantage of normal everyday hours and spend it with family.

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When talking about health and sustainability, the term “eating seasonally” often gets brought up. But what does that actually mean and why is it important? There are many benefits to eating seasonally, and what exactly falls under that depends on where you live. Texas’ list of in-season fruits and vegetables for fall, for example, differs from Alaska’s or even New York’s!

Eating Seasonally 
Usually, when you go to the grocery store you’re able to buy a wide variety of fruits and vegetables. Often you’re able to buy strawberries in the winter outside of its typical growing season. However when doing that, it means that the strawberries have traveled very far in order for you to enjoy them outside of the summertime. Somewhere in the world strawberries do grow in winter, but it’s not locally.

This is why eating seasonally also often means eating locally. In order to enjoy season-appropriate produce, it means you’re also enjoying more local produce. On the other hand, there are quite a few fruits and vegetables that DO grow in season. Scroll down to the end of the blog post to read a list of seasonal fruits and vegetables for our state of Texas.

Three Main Benefits of Eating Seasonal Produce
There are three main benefits when eating seasonal produce: it’s better for you and your family’s health, supports your local economy, and it’s better for the environment. Whether you choose your health first, you can benefit from incorporating this simple shopping habit into your life.

Health Benefits 
Eating local, seasonal food has many health benefits. For one, you’re getting produce at its prime, when it’s meant to be enjoyed. Often when eating something that isn’t normally available during this time of year, it’s been picked weeks or months prior when it was still not ripe, so it wouldn’t go bad by the time it lands in your shopping cart. Other times, they spoil along the way.

Peak nutritional value happens when produce is ripe when it’s picked. This obviously doesn’t happen when it’s traveling hundreds, or who knows how many miles to the nearest grocery store to you. Generally, the fresher the produce, the better for you and your body! Some nutrients that tend to be higher in seasonal produce are for example vitamin C, antioxidants, folate, and more.

An added bonus: it also tastes much better!

Environmental Benefits
Most likely you’ve heard about how eating local food can benefit the environment. When trucks and shipments don’t have to travel so far away, then there are less emissions. This benefits the environment. Whether your grapefruit is arriving from a farm near you or from halfway around the world, the transportation does make a big difference in the carbon footprint.

Supporting Your Local Economy
When you purchase foods that grow somewhere completely different, a large chunk of the profit isn’t going to the farmers who grew the produce, but to the retailers, the shipping companies, and more. Eating local seasonal produce helps stimulate and support your local economy. That money that you spend on Farmer Joe’s apples is invested into a local business. It’s likely he’ll re-invest it either into his own local business or may use it to support other neighboring farms. Overall, this can have a larger impact by allowing for local businesses to have the profits to take on more help. Your locally purchased produce most likely over the years will lead to another person having a meaningful job.  The same is true for your personal chef. When you book a personal chef at Select Chef you know that you are reinvesting in your local economy. Moreover, your purchase also goes towards fighting childhood hunger within local community.

Seasonal Produce in Texas
Fall runs from September 1 through November 30, and there is so much variety to choose from in seasonal local produce for those who live in Texas. If you’d like to print this article or list out to have it ready for your next shopping trip, this one’s for you!

Texas Fall Fruits

• Apples
• Grapefruits
• Oranges
• Citrus fruits overall
• Melons
• Pears
• Pomegranates

Texas Fall Vegetables

• Broccoli
• Cauliflower
• Cucumbers
• Okra
• Peanuts
• Pumpkins
• Tomatoes
• Winter squash
• Cabbage
• Carrots
• Celery
• Mushrooms
• Peppers
• Collards
• Turnips
• Other greens

If you’re cooking at home, you won’t be able to solely eat seasonally. You most likely will have to purchase some ingredients that are required in a recipe that aren’t necessarily grown locally in the fall. It’s not about perfection, but it’s about going that extra mile for you and your family’s health.

If you find yourself dreading the cooking and shopping process simply reach out to us at Select Chef to hire your own personal chef to take care of that for you. We’ll make sure to incorporate fresh, organic and seasonal ingredients into meals that you’ll love!

 

Life has never been busier! The workload takes up most of your time, there’s the family to look after, and you need to keep up with your friends and the social circle. All these and similar necessary life activities take a considerable chunk of energy out of your daily life, which leaves you with only a few precious hours that you can use as your own time to plan something with your family, relatives, or friends. Now, if you must go grocery shopping to get the ingredients you need to prepare your meal, and then after the long and strenuous cooking session, you need to clean up after, isn’t that a bit frustrating? Wouldn’t you rather have a trained expert shop for the ingredients, prepare the gourmet meal for everyone, and clean everything up while you enjoy the gathering and relax the night away?

 

Now you must be wondering why you need a personal chef and may be thinking that it would probably be a bother to select one and then tell them all the details, so the meal is prepared just right. Wrong! It’s simple and completely reliable. After selecting and ordering the gourmet meal that you desire and mentioning the day and time you need it to be made ready, all that’s left for you to do now is wait for the day of the event to arrive. When it comes, relax your night away without the pressure of planning the meal, shopping for the ingredients, cooking the dish, and cleaning it all up. Enjoy the event to the fullest with your loved ones while the gourmet chef handles all the strenuous cooking tasks and prepares a delicious gourmet-level meal that earns you the compliments of every attendee of the event. Everything will be served properly, creating a professional ambiance that will enhance the satisfying experience of the entire meal course.

 

Introducing Select Chef

Our company includes a community of professionally trained chefs who have absolute control over their selected cuisine. Cooking is not a task but a passion for them, and their thirst for preparing the most delicious meals is unquenchable. Through years of experience, they have perfected their culinary art and are more than capable of delivering an amazing culinary experience.

 

Our chefs take pride in their creations and prepare everything using organic ingredients that do nothing but justice to your taste buds. We deliver not only a delicious gourmet meal, but everything we serve can be personalized for your health and nutrition goals. And the best part about our service, the whole lavish cuisine experience is delivered to you in the vicinity of your house!

 

Cost of our chefs

Despite our unwavering and unmatched high-quality standards and superiority in taste, we cater, care, and prioritize the satisfaction of our customers before anything else. Hence, you will find that the prices we charge for our professional gourmet services delivered to you in the comfort of your house are highly competitive in the market against highly-rated cuisines. Our Starters package is priced at $109.99pp for a party of 2, $69.99pp for a party of 4, and the larger the party the greater the savings.  Same goes for our Standard and Premium packages that offer you a wider array of our delish services.

 

We have been caring and cooking for hardworking and deserving people for years now and have handled all their small events, gatherings, parties, and simple family dinners. We can do the same for you and give you an experience worth savoring.

Book your in-home chef today with Select Chef.

 

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