The Balaboosta Chef was founded on the idea of social cooking–a place where food brings people together. An opportunity to learn the best tips, tricks and tools to cook for your friends and family with confidence and ease. Cooking doesn’t have to be intimidating. By learning friend and true tested recipes, YOU can be the Balaboosta in your house, too!
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Miso Tahini Everything Sauce
SAUCE. It’s the dinner hero you never realized you always needed.

Lacy Fried Potato Pancakes
In lieu of witty banter, let’s just cut to the chase. You came here for the perfect fried latkes, and there’s a science to that. I’ll give you the Cliff’s Notes with these simple tips:

Cast Iron Asian Flank Steak with Ginger Miso Sauce
Please enjoy this non-Thanksgiving related content in a feed currently littered with sliced turkey, 26 ways to eat pumpkin and too much of that cranberry stuff no one even likes but you wind up serving anyway because maybe this is the year someone decides to eat it.

Halibut with Ginger Scallion Relish
News Flash from Captain Obvious: I am ready for this whole covid sitch to be over.

Fattoush Salad
We all need more recipes in our lives right now that take 15 minutes to whip together, taste like you ordered it in a restaurants and look picture-worthy for the ‘gram. amiright?

Miso Butter Chicken
I know the aesthetic of my current feed says otherwise, but I promise we are not only eating food that is both Asian in flavor and Brown in color. But....you can’t blame us if we were - because it’s all been insanely delicious! Ya gotta go with what works.

Sticky Miso Honey Chicken Wings
Do Sticky Miso-Honey Chicken Wings qualify as a Rosh Hashanah recipe? I mean, it has honey in it…

Asian Pappardelle Bolognese
Remember when you were in 7th grade and you thought of the BEST comeback to say to that one queen bee bitch but not until, like, four hours later? Yeah. Timing really is everything.
Assorted Crudite: Slow Roasted Tomatoes, Pickled Carrots & Spicy White Bean Dip
