I’m past excited to announce our very personal Chef Jean-Baptiste “JB” goes to start out sharing his personal recipes right here on RecipeTin Eats! 🎉 Say bonjour to JB!!
Chef JB steps into the highlight!
Lengthy-time readers will know JB nicely. He’s been my proper hand for nearly 5 years and is formally our Head Chef right here at RecipeTin. From growing and testing recipes with me, taking cost of public occasions and main RecipeTin Meals – the place 600 do-it-yourself meals are made day-after-day for these in want – he’s been throughout all the pieces cooking associated within the RecipeTin world.
Born and raised in Lyon, JB has been classically educated in France, beginning at culinary faculty then working in Michelin-starred kitchens. At simply 28, he was working a Manhattan restaurant for the legendary French chef Daniel Boulud – that sort of duty at such a younger age says all the pieces about his expertise and work ethic!
RecipeTin wouldn’t be what it’s immediately with out him. We wouldn’t have completed half the general public occasions and not-for-profit issues we’ve completed if I didn’t have him to organise them, from cooking for households on the Kids’s Hospital to internet hosting a 14-course degustation reader dinner at our meals financial institution. And RecipeTin Meals solely exists due to him – I knew nothing about establishing or working industrial kitchens, the gear, the logistics, or producing meals on a big scale!
Over time he’s poured a lot into serving to me deliver dependable, nice tasting recipes to you, testing recipes relentlessly, double-checking particulars late into the night time, quietly shaping a lot of what you see right here behind the scenes.
And now, I’m so excited that he’s getting into the highlight himself! You’ll begin to see recipes developed, written, photographed and filmed by JB himself – suppose, timeless French classics and high quality eating dishes from his restaurant years, tailored for residence cooks such as you and me.
Don’t fear, I’m not going wherever! I’ll nonetheless be publishing new recipes as nicely. Between us there’ll proceed to be 2 recipes every week, and we can be making and testing the recipes collectively – as now we have been doing for the previous 5 years.
JB can be sharing his first recipe on Friday, and I can’t wait so that you can expertise his cooking straight. Please be part of me in welcoming JB as a recipe author on RecipeTin Eats. Go forward and hit him up together with your recipe requests within the feedback under! – Nagi x
~~ A phrase from JB ~~
Hello everybody! Thanks Nagi, to your variety phrases and making me really feel so welcome. I can’t consider it’s already been nearly 5 years, I didn’t realise how briskly time went, that’s how a lot enjoyable it’s been!
I’m past excited to open this new chapter and to have the ability to share recipes with all of you. I hope you’ll get pleasure from them as a lot as I’m having fun with creating them. There’s a lot to come back so don’t go wherever and let’s have enjoyable within the kitchen! ~ JB
Browse JB’s French recipes
Listed below are French recipes I’ve shared up to now, courtesy of JB. Anticipate all future French recipes to come back from him straight!
JB FAQ (Written by Nagi!)
Sure in fact – I by no means wish to cease! Sharing recipes with you is the center and soul of RecipeTin Eats, and it’ll at all times be my largest ardour. I’ll nonetheless be cooking, testing, photographing, writing and chatting away with you right here similar to I at all times have.
The thrilling half is that now I get to share the publishing of latest recipes with JB, which implies you’ll see much more selection, extra inspiration and extra scrumptious concepts coming your method.
Consider it as an growth of the RecipeTin universe – not a substitute. I’ll proceed to put up all of the recipes you recognize and love from me, and JB can be bringing his personal voice, creativity and French aptitude to the combination.
So nothing adjustments with me – you’re simply getting extra!
Initially he can be sharing a brand new recipe each fortnight, and different work commitments allowing, we hope to proceed this if not enhance the frequency!
It would vary from basic and homestyle French recipes in addition to some high quality eating restaurant dishes which might be made to be accessible to day-after-day residence cooks. I’m particularly excited by the latter as he has taught me so many nice restaurant secret recipes – particularly sauces and easy-but-fancy trying methods to plate up dishes.
The identical method as we at all times have – besides I can be JB’s testing assist for his new recipes as he has been doing for mine all these years!
Usually, one in every of us will “personal” a brand new recipe and do many of the legwork to create and take a look at it to remaining type. Then we write it up and the opposite cooks it with out help so we will verify if the recipe is written precisely and with enough steering for anybody to comply with.
If there are issues with the recipe then we preserve going forwards and backwards till we’re completely satisfied.
JB is! Over time he’s picked up a lot working side-by-side with me and the group on numerous photograph and video shoots. He’s discovered the RecipeTin “model” inside out, from the way in which we gentle meals to the little particulars that make the step-by-steps clear and useful.
He’s been working towards behind the digital camera as a lot as he has behind the range, and I feel you’re going to be amazed if you see his first recipe put up this Friday. It appears and feels similar to the RecipeTin you recognize – however with JB’s personal character shining by too!
YES! It was a key situation to him approaching board as a recipe contributor!
Lifetime of Dozer
When JB mentioned he had a workers mentoring session, this isn’t fairly what I pictured……🤣 The cactus wants a proof!!!
