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Monday Mingle: With special guest Tyler Florence

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Good morning everyone! It’s Monday and I’m so excited to see another wonderful day! As you guys are aware of, it’s time for another episode of Monday Mingle. This week I have a special guest and his name is Tyler Florence! You may have seen Mr.Dreamy on Food Network cooking up some great recipes or at cooking demonstrations. I had the pleasure of catching up with him again at Macy’s yesterday in Buckhead, Atlanta. So without further ado here is Chef Hottie mingling with me lol. Thanks Jen over at Eightymphmom this was fun!

Use the answers below and record your mingle with what you think the questions are:

1. Facebook – most definitely!

2. Probably when I was about three – cooking with my mom.

3. I would have to say the city/town of Petrolia, California

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Cooking it up with Chef Marcus Samuelsson

Friday, June 18th, 2010

Yesterday evening we were off to see a cooking demo at Macy’s at North Point Mall. Chef Marcus Samuelsson was the cook who prepared some good cuisines. You may remember him from winning Top Chef on the reality show on Bravo.

He told the audience that he was from Sweden/Ethiopia. He has traveled the world with his different recipes and combining all sorts of ethnic food together. Pia and I sat in the 2nd row back and we could smell all the different aromas.

I took a lot of good notes on how to prepare fishes and seafoods. Marcus said in his country they ate a lot of fish. He began to cook salmon and asked who didn’t cook fish that much. I raised my hand and he invited me on stage!

He also invited another lady up as well. He then prepared the fish but to me it didn’t look cooked enough and he assured me that it was done. I still wasn’t buying it and hate to eat raw foods or anything that looks weird lol.

Salmon and Corn Pancakes

Marcus said, “Tami it’s seared”, I said, “I saw you do that but it still looks mooshy” lol. The crowd was laughing at me as I hopped up and down because I was so scared to try it lol.

Crab Cakes with Corn

Fried Chicken with Collard Greens

He put it back in the pan and then gave it to me to try. It was good but I was terrified. Then he wanted us to try fish skin. I just smiled but was thinking, what did I get myself into. Once it was ready to eat he put a lil sauce on it and it was bon appetite lol. It wasn’t too bad and reminded me of pork rinds lol.

James Andrews and I

Black Tie Barbecue owners, Spencer and Allison

He prepared several meals like Fried chicken and collard greens, Crab Cakes with Corn and Pistachio Aioli, and Corn Pancakes with Chili-Covered Gavlax. All his dishes were very tasty especially his version of fried chicken,sooo good!

Our Macy’s goody bags items,cute

Chef Marcus and I

Chef Marcus converse kicks lol

Right now he is touring and has a restaurant in NYC where he also lives. He has a new book out too called, “New American Table“. He has such a great personality and I hope his career goes very well. Enjoy the pics and Happy Friday! Shout out to Macy’s for the invite!

www.marcussamuelsson.com

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The Gillette Fusion MVP Prime Time Tour/Pt 2!

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Last night was the second part of the Gillette Fusion MVP Prime Time Tour held at Arena Barber shop in Atlanta. I tell you, boy do they know how to throw a good event! Rolling Out magazine and Gillette held an event at a well known chic barber shop. Barbers were lined up and ready to give out shaves and more to the men. They received facials,line ups, trims, massages and a goody bag filled with products. They also had complimentary drinks and bites from The Catering Company, the food was very yummy!

I brought along my hubby Terrell, who really enjoyed the experience and he looked so handsome afterwards. His barber’s name was Jigga and he was very nice and talented. My hubby face felt like butter, he was just smilin away. Fonzworth Bentley, Kenny Burns and Vivica Fox was back in the house hosting again and they seemed to have had a great time. They kept the crowd hyped and the dj was great too. I loved the decor of the barber shop, which kinda looked like you were at a basketball arena, with all the tv’s suspended from mid air, that was hott! The owner told me he wasn’t from Atlanta, he lived in Los Angeles but plans on opening a chain of them around the country. As of right now, he has 3 locations.

Hubby getting groomed by Barber Jigga

Me chatting with Vivica Fox(this pic by Rolling Out)

Vivica gave out 50.00 Macy’s gift cards to lucky raffle ticket holders, while one lucky ticket holder won tickets to the super bowl. My hubby didn’t win, shucks! This time around Vivica told me she was wearing YSL heels,which were just as hot,as the other shoes she wore the other day lol! I saw Jamie Foster from Sister 2 Sister and I almost passed out because she was carrying a huge sequins Betsey Johnson purse! I was so jealous lol.

Lucky winner with her Macy’s gift card

Fonzworth then started a dance line and he bust a move and we all fell out laughin. He can really dance and I have never seen that kinda footwork before, he really did his thing lol. Kenny Burns then shouted me out, and I had to show them all what this ol diva could do, lol. They yelled out,”Go Tami”, “Go Tami”, yes I shut it down! We had a ball and I would like to thank The Garner Circle and Rolling Out for inviting us out!