Cheffy Skills QUICKIES Cookbook: Confident Cooking

This book is a fantastic reference book for aspiring chefs and home foodies. With these tried-and-tested recipes, you can level up your cheffy skills to amazing new heights and transform your cooking knowledge quickly and easily. The recipes are simple, easy, and effective, helping you achieve the success you want and deserve.

With over 228 pages and 180+ recipes, you will use this book to become the best, most confident cook or chef you can be. And have fun along the way!

This book is perfect for people who want to increase their cooking skills and learn to be more cheffy. This is the most comprehensive cookbook that covers fundamental cheffy skills to make you a better home chef. The book covers everything from bread, pastries, basic sauces, advanced sauces, plating and presentation, starters, mains, desserts and everything in between. You will also learn salads, pasta, gnocchi skills and more. Your confidence and skill levels will increase dramatically as you work through the various recipes and information. The recipes are written in a way that will help you understand why and how a technique is beneficial. It will also give you all the tricks, hacks and shortcuts to ensure your kitchen time is more efficient. These are quick and easy but very cheffy recipes. You will gain confidence and become unstoppable in the kitchen. Have fun, gain confidence, and have a reference book for years. And who better to teach you than a professional chef who has been a cooking school teacher for over 28 years? Her superpower is teaching and making complex dishes easy and successful. Enjoy, and make delicious discoveries along the way. Your friends, family and loved ones will notice a difference immediately...and so will you.

Perfect for absolute beginners, intermediate or advanced foodies...and everyone in between. Buy this book for yourself or your loved ones, and you'll live happily ever after in the kitchen. You'll become the confident, cheffy foodie you have always wanted to be.

Chef Mel Alafaci has been a professional chef since 1992. Her passion for cooking, eating, and teaching is unwavering.

Her intoxicating enthusiasm, authenticity and unique culinary lingo will have you hungry to flex your muscles in the kitchen.

Mel is brilliant at adding humour, shortcuts, and tricks to tedious tasks that can kill one's passion for cooking.

Mel has designed, tried, and tested every recipe and is proud to share them with you. As a cooking school teacher and founder of two cooking schools in her career, she is the founder of Gecko Culinary Adventures in Durban and Vanilla Zulu Cooking School in Brisbane and has had years to fine-tune her teaching style. You are in good hands!

You will learn your way through bread, sauces, pastries, starters, mains, desserts, and more. With this cookbook by your side, you will never look back, and best of all, you'll have so much delicious fun along the way.

Happy Cooking

Chef Mel

Chef, Teacher, Author and Presenter. This enthusiastic, entertaining, award-winning African-Australian chef and cooking school owner says that with some know-how, anyone can plate up spectacular spreads similar to what you'd expect in five-star restaurants. Mel is brilliant at making everyday dishes dazzling. She promises that after one of her recipes, you will live happily ever after. She ardently believes that even bland mince and chicken breasts can be absolutely sexy. She is often seen on Celebrity Chef Stages. She's blonde, she's African-Australian, she's bubbly, and she's a talented chef, and she runs one of Brisbane's most successful cooking schools. Chef Mel's happy smile is one of the reasons she's become a regular on lifestyle and cooking segments on Australian, American and South African radio and television shows over the years. Chef Mel (Vanilla Zulu Founder) believes in using the freshest local ingredients and having a repertoire of reliable recipes to rehash and refresh using different sides and accompaniments. Just as you would repeatedly wear the same little black dress and dress it up with new earrings, a new handbag and new shoes...it's all about culinary bling and accessories! If you shop cleverly, you can cook cleverly, too. It doesn't have to be expensive, but you too can achieve a round of applause if you know some valuable 'cheffy' tricks. Armed with a sassy sense of humour, Mel is willing to share everything she knows about her passion...which is cooking! Her students LOVE how she makes cooking fun through clever analogies; they even say she "speaks Mel," a language that explains her culinary procedures quickly and clearly. Zimbabwean-born chef Melanie Alafaci (nee Townsend) founded the Vanilla Zulu cooking school in Teneriffe, Brisbane, where she gives foodies and newbies a fun and relaxed atmosphere to "go wild" with food. Vanilla Zulu is Melanie's second cooking school and the culmination of an eclectic career spanning nearly two decades, flavoured by a life rich in experience. Chef Mel is now enjoying creating her cooking show on YouTube and writing a series of cookbooks in the Quickies Cookbook range. She's the real deal and loves creating happy foodies around the globe.