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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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Chocolate Tahini Granola Bark
Jory Benerofe Jory Benerofe

Chocolate Tahini Granola Bark

I have become a really inconsistent recipe poster on this platform. I didn’t even realize it until I started a habit tracker for March, and while I seem to be able to nail my goal of completing a crossword puzzle everyday with relative ease, I noticed it had been a good three weeks since my last instagram post.

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Smokey Maple Mustard Roasted Chicken
Jory Benerofe Jory Benerofe

Smokey Maple Mustard Roasted Chicken

Food bloggers be like: “Here’s a great recipe that uses all your pantry staples!”…and then they drop an ingredient list bomb featuring pomegranate syrup, chipotle paste & bee pollen.

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Ginger Scallion Kale Fried Rice
Jory Benerofe Jory Benerofe

Ginger Scallion Kale Fried Rice

OK. I’m not going to pretend like the Ginger Scallion Sauce that I tossed into this leftover kale and brown rice dish is something new that I just dreamt up today. I’ve been repurposing it in different recipes for YEARS.

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Roasted Carrot Salad with Tahini-Yogurt Shmear
Jory Benerofe Jory Benerofe

Roasted Carrot Salad with Tahini-Yogurt Shmear

I don’t really like side dishes. It’s not that I have anything against them, it’s just that I’m a self-diagnosed flavor blender so I gravitate towards meals that have all the things together in one dish.

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Chicken Shakshuka
Jory Benerofe Jory Benerofe

Chicken Shakshuka

There’s definitely a “What came first...” joke somewhere in this baked Chicken and Egg Shakshuka dish but I’m buried too deep beneath 13” of snow to find it.

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Garlic Knots
Jory Benerofe Jory Benerofe

Garlic Knots

I fully recognize that claiming homemade pizza dough is super easy and then posting 27 stories detailing each step may appear highly suspect at first glance.

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Mexican Cabbage Pozole
Jory Benerofe Jory Benerofe

Mexican Cabbage Pozole

When Jory and I first moved in together 4 score and what feels like 100 years ago, I had a very limited repertoire of food I felt confident preparing for us both.

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