Kitchen Confidence: The Haven’s Kitchen Cooking School + Giveaway
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Artisan Books partnered with me to support an exciting new cookbook! All thoughts are my own.
My mom is an amazing cook. She has a love for trying new recipes so I was raised with a wide variety of food and grew to love cooking and baking in the process. I learned a lot along the way but over the past several years I’ve come to discover just how much I actually don’t know. It is part of the reason I started doing Mini Chef Mondays with my kids. It was a fun opportunity to teach them while trying out new recipes and techniques.
Alison Cayne has created a book, The Haven’s Kitchen Cooking School, dedicated to helping others build confidence in the kitchen. She is the owner of Haven’s Kitchen, a cooking school, café, and event space in New York City. Cayne started Haven’s Kitchen as a place to inspire and educate people about food and sustainability issues. With her master’s in food studies from New York University, she has been featured in numerous publications, serves on two boards and is an adjunct professor. Cayne lives in New York City with her five children.
The Haven’s Kitchen Cooking School includes 100 delicious recipes carefully chosen by Cayne and her expert staff with food inspired by global cuisine and a modern sensibility of how we like to eat today.
Each of the book’s nine chapters revolves around a key lesson taught through a collection of recipes to ensure that readers are not simply memorizing a canon of tried-and-true instructions; they are learning how to cook for a lifetime.
From basic to more advanced techniques and recipes, you’ll find everything from how to boil eggs to pickling tips!
I’ve enjoyed browsing through the selection and look forward to testing out more of her recipes and tips! Curious to see more? Check out the The Haven’s Kitchen Cooking School excerpt! Excerpted from The Haven’s Kitchen Cooking School by Alison Cayne (Artisan Books). Copyright © 2017. Photographs by Con Poulos.
Cayne equips home cooks with fundamental building blocks they need to feel confident and at ease in the kitchen. Those skills include:
- How to Get Over Your Fear of Frying
- How to Pick & Cut Herbs
- How to Make Stock
- How to Stock Your Refrigerator & Pantry
- How to Make an Omelet
- How to Make Dressing
- How to Filet a Cooked Fish
- How to Roast Garlic
- How to Make Stock
- How to Make & Store Sauces
- Knife Cuts: Slice, Dice, Julienne, Oblique, Brunoise, Chiffonade, Supreme
- How to Cook Vegetables: Blanche, Braise, Sautée, Roast & Grill
- How to Cook Proteins: Poach, Roast, Steam, Broil, & Stew
If you could stock your kitchen with some new items or replace old favorites, what would they be? I personally can’t imagine not having my favorite kitchen products such as silicone baking sheets and high quality jelly roll pans. I also love my Henckels chef’s knife and 12 inch saute pan. It is called the Everyday Pan for a reason because I use it almost every day!
Some of My Favorite Kitchen Products:
Calphalon Unison Nonstick, Everyday Pan, 12-inch
Artisan Silicone Baking Mat for Half-Size Cookie Sheet with Red Border, 16.5 xNordic Ware Natural Aluminum Commercial Baker’s Half SheetJ.A. HENCKELS INTERNATIONAL Classic 8-inch Chef’s KnifeQadira Silicone Baking Spatulas – 7 Inch (Set of 6) Spoon Style DishwasherIpow Stainless Steel Fine Tea Mesh Strainer Colander Sieve with Handle for Kitchen
Enter below for your chance to stock up your kitchen!
The Fundamentals of Cooking Giveaway:
One (1) winner receives:
- The Haven’s Kitchen Cooking School (deliciously educational!)
- $100 Visa gift card to stock the kitchen with the essentials!
Giveaway open to US addresses only. Prizing and samples provided by Artisan Books.
My knife cutting skills could use some real work.
With soups for sure.
I could use help with cooking vegetables.
I need help with How to Cook Vegetables: Blanche, Braise, Sautée, Roast & Grill
I’m not positive on how to make a good stock.
I could use some help making dressings and with using knives.
I could use some help with cooking fish…I have always had a problem with overcooking
More info on working with fish would help me.
I would like to know more about How to Cook Vegetables: Blanche, Braise, Sautée, Roast & Grill.
I could use help cooking proteins. I do a pretty good job now but could definitely improve.
A few of the knife cutting terms I would have to look up but I’m sure I’ve used them. I could use instruction on making sauces and storing them. I have Calphalon Elite pans, which are resistant to metal utensils, (though I’m always careful with my non-stick pans) and I like these better than the Unison.
My knife skills are lacking…
I would love to be able to make my own sauces and dressings this book would be awesome teach me a lot of different ways to cook
I could use help with How to Roast Garlic.
I’ve heard it is great.
thank you
How to Make Dressing. I have never tried to do this and it could get interesting.
I really need help in the How to Pick & Cut Herbs category! I have always wanted to know more about seasoning potatoes to make them go from bland to fab!
I could use help with how to make an omelet.
I could use help with knife cuts.
I would love to learn many things from this book, How to Make Stock would be helpful .
•How to Get Over Your Fear of Frying>>> We love fried chicken but never made it, would love to learn to make my own