How it Works

The Personal Chef concept is simple: I make your life easier and healthier by cooking for you. I handle everything from menu planning, to grocery shopping, to cooking. At the end of the day I leave you with a spotless kitchen and a refrigerator and freezer filled with handcrafted meals.

Before each cook date I develop a menu of entrées and side dishes based on your likes, dislikes, preferences, and needs and submit it to you for approval a week in advance.

On the morning of your cook date I shop for the freshest fruit, vegetables, and herbs selecting locally grown produce whenever possible to be sure it's just picked. I also purchase the meat, fish, and poultry that morning selecting the most tender and most flavorful cuts and then packing everything in ice until I arrive at your house. Fresh food means no chemicals or preservatives.

Although I cook in your home, I bring all the pots, pans, cooking utensils, and storage containers I need to prepare your meals -- all you need provide is the refrigerator, freezer, oven, and microwave.

As I prepare your meals I package them in sealed containers, label each container with detailed thawing and heating directions, and store them in the refrigerator and freezer.

Before leaving I thoroughly clean your kitchen leaving you with only wonderful smells and a larder full of handcrafted meals to come home to.

Note: Some clients have requested that I simply deliver prepared food — this can arranged.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song
above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien

Serving Knox, Blount, & Anderson counties.