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Welcome, everyone! Hi, my name is Steven Thompson. As a food blogger, I am the head cook, recipe developer, dishwasher, writer, photographer, and I.T. guy for the food blog, Sips, Nibbles & Bites. As a hobby, my food blog has been a real labor of love. It allows me to put the recipes that are in my head online for my friends and family to enjoy as well as documenting what my partner of 20 years Christopher and I like to eat, drink and snack on. My food blog covers a pretty wide variety of recipes, techniques, and cuisines, we love to experiment and create new and interesting recipes that keep us entertained.

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Professional Experience

I no longer work professionally as a chef (I’m a watchmaker now); however, I did graduate from the French Culinary Institute in New York City back in 2001. My focus at school was in Pastry Arts. After graduating I worked at Jacques Torres Chocolate Factory, apprenticed at Bobby Flays Mesa Grill. Afterward returning to the school and working in the student restaurant L’Ecole where the Deans and Master Chefs Jacques Pépin, André Soltner, and Alain Sailhac ran the kitchens.

After New York, we returned to Dallas, Texas. There I spent the remainder of my professional cooking experience in the pastry kitchen at the Four Seasons Resort and Hotel. On the side, I helped my buddy Jason Boso when he opened a local and rapidly growing chain, The Twisted Root Burger Company. You should go have a burger and try my ice cream recipe there!

As far as developing recipes, I’d say the best, or at least the lesson that stuck with me the most from culinary school was the pound cake. Four ingredients all weighing one pound. Simple enough, however, the Chef Instructors had us all change something about those four ingredients. A little more of one ingredient, a little less of the other, and then observe each other’s results.

From this lesson, I learned how these simple changes had dramatic effects on the final outcome of a recipe. As well as how to understand the ratios and formulas that make recipes work (or fail) and to develop new recipes. Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of recipes that are a huge flop the first time I make them. But we go back to the drawing board, figure out what the problems were, and then fix them.

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Photography

I am not a trained photographer and my photography is often a little amateurish but I’m learning and trying to improve my techniques. However, as a food blogger, I only cook what we eat, so I am not cooking just to take pictures. I can’t see wasting food like that.

My food styling for photography is regularly hampered by trying to rush to photograph the food before our dinner gets cold. Often, I will take the pictures, then dig in and start eating only to kick myself for not garnishing properly or forgetting a component. But in my defense, a lot of those pictures were taken after a cocktail or glass of wine or two. Have you seen the ‘Sips’ section?

Thank you so much for visiting my little food blog! I sincerely hope you try some of my recipes and that you enjoy making them as much as I have enjoyed making them for you.

Thank you for reading! Steven

Ps. The Email Subscription is only to notify you of new recipes. I will never send spam (unless it’s in a recipe!), so please subscribe and be the first to know when I post something new. Cheers!

Steve From Sips Nibbles Bites

 

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Hi, my name is Steven Thompson welcome to my Food Blog. I am a graduate of the French Culinary Institute in New York City where I studied Pastry Arts. Throughout the years, I've worked in some of the best restaurants and hotels in the world. Although I have moved on from the world of the professional kitchen, I still have a great love and passion for cooking and food photography, which is why I've become a food blogger. I hope you enjoy reading and making some of these recipes as much as I do. Cheers and bon appetit! Read More…

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