Christmas Dinner Delivery 2014 - Toronto - Fabulous Faitth

Christmas Dinner Delivery Menu 2014 - by Fabulous Faith, Toronto`s Number One Private Chef

Fabulous Faith donates traditional Christmas dinner to families in need - Christmas 2014

Please contact me through www.foodisfabulous.com if you or someone you know is in need.

Chocate Pumpkin Crispy Crunch Cake with Peanut Butter Buttercream frosting - Thanksgiving recipe 2014Ch

Chocolate Pumpkin Crispy Crunch Cake with Peanut Butter Buttercream Frosting

Happy Thanksgiving America!! Hope you enjoy my gift this awesome recipe:

http://www.yougottaeatthis.com/dessert/chocolate-pumpkin-crispy-crunch-cake-fabulous-faith/#.VHaDEskxGM0

Quinoa Salad with Raspberry Vinaigrette Recipe by Fabulous Faith

Check out my recipe for Quinoa Salad with Raspberry Vinaigrette on YouGottaEatThis.com!!!


http://www.yougottaeatthis.com/featured/quinoa-salad-raspberry-vinaigrette-fabulous-faith/

Quinoa Salad with Raspberry Vinaigrette

Spooky Sliders Recipe - Halloween Treats

Happy Halloween from Fabulous Faith!!

Check out this awesome kid-friendly, perfect for your event NEW ORIGINAL recipe!!


http://www.yougottaeatthis.com/sandwiches/spooky-sliders-fabulous-faith/#.VFD0gBaBSBw

The Fit Pack - Coming soon to the GTA - Daily Meal Delivery Service

Fabulous Faith's new product The Fit Pack set to launch in the GTA

Shrimp Tacos at Bymark by Fabulous Faith

Check out my new article on Bymark's Shrimp "Tacos"!!

Shrimp "Tacos" at Bymark in Toronto

http://www.yougottaeatthis.com/featured/shrimp-tacos-bymark-fabulous-faith/#.VCxEPRbNuPI

Fabulous Faith Live on Social Life Peel

Prenatal and Postpartum Health Food Delivery in Toronto by Fabulous Faith

Toronto's First Prenatal and Postpartum Meal delivery program

Eative makes Nitrogen Ice Cream by Fabulous Faith

Check out my article at YouGottaEatThis.com !!!

Nitrogen Ice Cream at the CNE 2014

Thanksgiving Waffles at the CNE in Toronto! – by Fabulous Faith

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Fran's Restaurant Presents Thanksgiving Waffles at the CNE 2014

http://www.yougottaeatthis.com/chicken/thanksgiving-waffles-cne-toronto-fabulous-faith/#.VAXiaWPUNnU

Video - Fabulous Faith - Carifest 2014 - Culinary Workshop with Chef Selwyn

http://youtu.be/vdlaXQ1BsAg

Fabulous Faith presents - A Culinary Workshop with Chef Selwyn Richards at Vaughan Carifest 2014

On Friday August 22^nd I was invited to attend the VIP thank you dinner and Caribbean culinary workshop at Carifestival in Vaughan. 

I arrived at the venue Woodbridge fairgrounds, a local historical site famous for hosting elegant garden parties, movie productions, art and craft shows, garden markets and numerous cultural festivals since the 1880s. 

Fabulous Faith at Carifest 2014

 As soon as I stepped out of my car I was overwhelmed by the delicious aroma of smokey grilling jerk chicken.  I turned and headed towards a large elegant white tent that was decorated to match the Caribbean theme.  A buffet of 5 star hors d’œuvres was presented including enchanting tarts filled with ackee and saltfish, shrimp shot glasses, smoked salmon bites and an array of exotic fresh fruit that tantalized the pallets of the lucky guests upon arrival.  

 

Chef Selwyn Richards, from Jamaica, a chef with over 25 years’ experience catering here in the GTA was just off center stage.  He demonstrated his recipes and provided instructions on how to prepare traditional Jamaican dishes, Escovitch fish a tangy fish stew with peppers, onions and carrots, the ever popular jerk chicken and rice and peas.  

Our senses were excited as delicious aromas filled the tent and Chef Selwyn’s pleasant personality engaged the crowd with witty humour.  Chef Selwyn personally served the guests after his cooking lesson and the crowd was thrilled with his recipes.   

 

Special thanks to Karen from the CariFestival Association for the invitation and to Chef Selwyn Richards for the delicious supper.   CariFestival is a two day festival devoted to celebrating Caribbean cultures in the City of Vaughan. The objective of CariFestival Association is to showcase the best of the Caribbean culture, demonstrate Caribbean artistry, and generate revenue to fund other Association programs and services throughout the year, to support local charities and to contribute to the community infrastructure.  

Make sure to come out next year and support Carifestival!

Toronto's #1 Private Chef - Fabulous Faith

Fabulous Faith covering Carifestival 2014

Fabulous Faith will be at CariFestival 2014

This Friday, August 22nd 2014,  I will be on-site at Carifestival in Vaughan doing media coverage for The Art of Catering workshop with Chef Selwyn Richards, come out and learn! Tickets are still available at: http://www.carifestival.com/ ‪

Flavours in the Field 2014 - Fabulous Faith for You Gotta Eat This!

Check out my article at:

http://www.yougottaeatthis.com/international/culinary-adventure-train-fabulous-faith/#.U_BtImO86mc

Fabulous Faith - Flavours in the field 2014

Fabulous Faith hosts Scarborough Afro-Carribbean Festival - August 23rd and 24th 2014

Fabulous Faith is thrilled to have the opportunity to MC the 3rd Annual Scarborough Afro-Caribbean Festival!

Heritage Skills Development Centre (HSDC) in partnership with Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) are proud to present the 3rd Annual 2014 Scarborough Afro-Caribbean Festival. The festival will be held on Saturday August 23rd and Sunday August 24th, 2014 between 12PM-8PM on both days, inside the Albert Campbell Square, located in the Scarborough Civic Centre (150 Borough Drive Scarborough). It is a FREE event, open to all members of our community and the general public.

The Festival is a unique event, “Celebrating our Diversity”, while bridging the cultural gaps. It offers a platform to educate and entertain festival attendees as well as provides an economic development opportunity for independent vendors and artists to engage in self-sufficiency. This is in line with Heritage Skills development Centre’s mission to promote the health, social, cultural and economic self-sufficiency of new immigrants, at-risk and marginalized groups in the greater Toronto Area (GTA). It is also a great opportunity to showcase our diversity by celebrating the arts, culture, cuisine and heritage of the African and Caribbean communities, as well as promote local businesses while providing exposure to new and emerging artists.

According to Ms. Charity Lebeanya, The Executive Director of HSDC, the festival will celebrate our culture, bridge community gaps and help to portray a positive image of Scarborough. The event will feature various activities that will help strengthen, promote and increase awareness of the African and Caribbean cultures including its music, fashion, food, arts, crafts and lifestyle. The aim is to bring residents of Scarborough and the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) together.

There will be performances and entertainment by Juno Award Winning Artist: Adam Solomon, Fojeba and the Sunshine Band, Ijo Vudu, ICU group, Carnival Spice, Blandine Kaniki, Focus group, Afro-Caribbean Dancers, many other talented artists, a Dancing Competition with prize give aways and so much more!

HSDC is a grassroots non-profit organization, established in 1993 with a mission to promote the social, cultural, and economic self-sufficiency and well-being of new immigrant families and at-risk youth, so that they and their families can enjoy and contribute to the opportunities that Canada offers.

Fabulous Faith MC onstage and Provider of the Grand Prize Giveaway

Indian Taco Pizza Ready in 5 minutes!

Toronto – Fabulous Faith’s Caribana Pop-up Brunch

Toronto – Fabulous Faith’s Caribana Pop-up Brunch

The Hangover - Caribana Pop-Up Brunch

The Roscoe Dash - Fried Chicken n Waffles

Jerk chicken, rice & peas, lobster mac & slaw

Pan seared salmon over rice & peas, sweet potato fries & slaw

DJ JUG E and his large platter

Fabulous Faith serving up heavenly plates

A special thank you to everyone who came out and enjoyed the great food!

Canadian Cuisine

Check out my first post for You Gotta Eat This!

http://www.yougottaeatthis.com/international/fabulous-faith-introduces-canadian-cuisine/#.U9pTFmPCeR4

The Hangover - Caribana Pop-up Brunch

Healthy Steak Marinade - Healthy Seasoning

Seasoned Steaks

I like my steak well seasoned with lots of aromatic, savory flavor.  Allowing your meat to sit and marinade for a few hours before cooking will afford you a far superior product.

When creating a marinade look for flavors that will compliment the meats you are marinating, for example hearty herbs like rosemary and thyme go great with beef.

A good marinade contains herbs, spices, oil and an acidic flavoring (like vinegar) which breakdown protein chains in meats, making the meat more tender.

Here is the recipe for the marinade/seasoning blend pictures above:

Ingredients:

1 tsp dried thyme
1 tsp freshly cracked black pepper
1 tsp paprika
1 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp cumin powder
1 tsp crushed chilis
2 cloves of garlic, grated
2 tsp (10 ml) soy sauce
2 tsp (10 ml) worcestershire sauce

Instructions:

Rub the marinade into the steaks, covered and refridgerate up to 24 hours (minimum of 4 hours.)

Cook to your liking.

Grilled Rib-Eye Steaks, peppers and zucchini

Healthy Seasoning your meat - Healthy fish seasoning

Store bought pre-mixed spice blends are convenient but often loaded with chemicals.  Often overlooked, these additives, like MSG are very bad for your health and by reading the ingredients you will see that there is probably too much salt and empty calories.

Preparing your own blend of spice will not only help you save money but allow you to control what you are putting into your body.  Preparing spice blends is really easy and takes only a moment, you can even get your kids to do it.  Leftover spice mix can be stored in spice jars for easy access or frozen for long term storage.  The seasoning recipe below can be frozen for up to 3 months, simply multiply the quantities to suit your needs.

Here is an example of how I seasoned some frozen butterfish fillets:

Ingredients:

2 green onions, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 scotch bonnet pepper, diced
A few sprigs of fresh thyme
2 teaspoons (10 ml) curry powder
2 teaspoons (10 ml) freshly ground black pepper
2 teaspoons (10 ml) sweet paprika
1 teaspoon (5 ml) sea salt

Directions:

Toss the fish to coat in the seasonings and allow to marinate at least an hour.

Bake at 400 degrees once seasoned and thawed for twenty minutes.

Pictured below with fresh lime

Faith's Why & How - Relationship Advice

There are many types of relationships from a cordial informal hello to long lasting affair of the heart, all of which are significant in your path to finding your purpose.  You may be driving alone and see a stranger in need of assistance and stop in your path to help, the memory of this short lived relationship could, for both of you, be life altering. The act of compassion and caring for a person who is doubting humanity and lost in self pity may reignite the flame of life in just seconds of your time.  While the memory of helping and setting the precedent that kindness still exists for others to witness and continue with as their own methodology towards life, will this more than strengthen your love for yourself. 

If you build relationships treating others the way you would like to be treated, you fill find the greatest companions and friends.  People are not perfect by any means, you will meet people who's negativity is so prominent that your good intentions will not be able to penetrate deep enough to be recognized.  These people are not ready to be in a relationship with you, don't feel bad, you cannot allow that negativity to impede your progress.  Wish them well and keep your distance until they are ready to share the light of the positivity that you walk in.  No matter the bond; whether, time or blood you cannot allow yourself to experience for more than a moment the sorrow that they dwell in.  You are on a path to greatness and greatness takes along no prisoners.  

Along your journey relationships will cause you pain. If you are empathetic, lower your expectations of others to minimize disappointment. If you are lonely take priority on your relationship with yourself before involving yourself with others. We are all guilty of setting expectations of others and in turn settings ourselves up for disappointment. Until you understand that it is you allowing yourself to be upset and hurt by expecting others to act as you wish, you won't find peace. You will be tormented with the why, don't expect why to comfort you. Why is irrelevant. What's important is how! How is very important, how did you come to feel this way, how did you get in this position, and how will you learn from it. How is important because it's how this won't happen again. Its how you will see people for what they are before you let them get close. How blocks the bigger losers who are yet to come. Why is pain and how is your power to change. 

There may be people in your life right now who are hurting you. You may call them friends, family or coworkers. You may have convinced yourself you need them, they love you and they are there to support you. But are they? Too often we share our weaknesses with our fr-enemies blinded by emotion. A relationship evaluation is something I do often and its something like this: 

How is this relationship beneficial?

How is this relationship toxic?

How do I feel about this person? 

How does this person feel about me?

What is the future of this relationship?

Should I continue this relationship?

If you answer these questions you should have a clear understanding of if you should continue or end this relationship. Unfortunately there will be a hard choice in some cases and your life may change, luckily it's for the better. As its said there are three types of relationships, people who come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime and its up to you to choose the right crew. It's a relation-ship and you should always expect rough waters.

How to Eat Healthy; How to have a natural healthy diet

Clients, friends and family are constantly asking how to establish and maintain a healthy all-natural diet.  Luckily, the availability of natural, organic and locally sourced food is constantly increasing.  I guess we can start with what not to eat, well basically anything with ingredients you can’t easily pronounce.  Check the ingredients on everything you consume, the more ingredients, the less natural.   Don’t consume sugar-free or calorie-reduced foods and beverages, the reduction of sugar and/or calories equals, the addition of chemicals.  

Organic food is not sprayed with chemicals to extend shelf life it is also not grown with genetically modified seeds and is therefore, the most natural.  The pricing is definitely more expensive as a result; however, there is a clear taste difference and obvious health benefit.  If it is not within your budget to purchase organic produce, locally grown produce is an excellent alternative as it does not need to be sprayed heavily with preservative chemicals for transport  and there is less risk of contamination. 

In my experience, the main problem with the North American diet is the over consumption of processed white flour and sugar.  Candy, pastries, white breads etc. are too often considered to be “healthy choices.”  Our breakfast choices are mainly white flour and sugar: waffles, pancakes, strudels, cereals which are often again coated with white sugar icing or sugar-syrup.  Sure the jolt of sugar wakes you up but the sugar rushes wear off and is followed with a crash, and when you crash you lose focus and can no longer operate at a high level. 

In order to maintain consistent focus and clarity, you need to maintain a healthy blood sugar level.  To do this you have to eat foods that release sugar into your blood stream slowly, like whole grain cereal (oatmeal, bran, whole wheat etc.)  Eating healthy means eating to live not living to eat, so all the foods you have been eating since childhood (coke, chips, candy, fries) are not your friends anymore. 

 If you want to be healthy you have to think of food as fuel for your body and portion size as the amount of fuel required to run your body effectively.  Look at what your about to consume, is it a healthy salad or is it vegetables covered in a processed creamy sauce, with chunks of white bread and fattening cheese?  Is the fried chicken going to nourish your body? How will you feel after eating that giant carb filled lunch?  Can you afford to be lethargic moping around all afternoon?  Asking these questions will open your eyes as to how to identify what to eat and what to avoid and will help you to begin to have a healthy, natural diet.

Fabulous Faith - Promo Shoot

Here is a sneak peak of Fabulous Faith's Promo Photo Shoot

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Local Chef Fabulous Faith serves hundreds of hors d’oeuvres to the homeless

 

Toronto, ON – March 4, 2014 

Yesterday, as the result of the cancellation of a post-Oscars event local chef Fabulous Faith was to cater a special treat was served to the homeless visitors of Good Shepard Ministries in Toronto.  Upon arrival at her client’s house, Fabulous Faith was advised that her client had been injured on the red carpet over the weekend.  Left with hundreds of delicious hors d’oeuvres prepared she quickly decided to call up a  local charity, Good Shepherd Ministries, that serves over a thousand of Toronto’s homeless meals every day.  

“You have to find the positive in every negative situation,” Fabulous Faith said. “This gave me the chance to give back to my community and I could not have asked for my food to be used for a better cause.” 

Five star hors d`oeuvres are not typically on the menu at Good Shepherd Ministries, or "The Good Shepherd", as it is affectionately called.  It is a place for the less fortunate to get a hot meal, clean clothes or a safe clean bed for the night.  For some, Good Shepherd Ministries means the Good Shepherd Centre, a place where can you go when there's no money left for food.   Having grown up in poverty herself, Fabulous Faith knows how much a good meal can make a difference.

Luckily on this occasion, Fabulous Faith, a Toronto based celebrity private chef, was able to provide the homeless with royal treatment she had originally prepared for an exclusive private Oscars after party.  In her party dress and heels she personally served the homeless with a big smile and over-the-top personality.  Soon to release her first cooking show, Fabulous Faith is a star on the rise.

Check out the video on YouTube:

http://youtu.be/M4CUM-8x5aU