Holliday Shopping!

Holiday Shopping on Golden Isles Cooks for that special chef in your life!

Any item in the following pages of Golden Isles Cooks:

Knives
Must Have Equiptment
Cookware Guide
Cookbooks

Can now be purchased through Amazon simply by clicking on the name if the item.

So why go to Golden Isles Cooks instead of going straight to Amazon you ask?

Every item I have listed, I either currently own or have owned. Thus, I make my recommendations from years, and decades in some cases, of personal experience with each and every product. I have listed the exact makes and models I use and I have only placed items on my blog which has passed the test, that is, surviving the rigors of a commercial kitchen environment. This means all the products are heavy duty and in a home environment, with the proper care, should last a lifetime. I have also made sure that every product is listed at the best possible price point, so you don't have to do any comparison shopping.

Happy Holidays Everyone!

Chef W. Dayton Ireland

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This blog, Golden Isles Cooks, now has very tasteful advertisements for excellent quality kitchen equiptment at great prices. 

So, if your looking for something for your kitchen, home or commercial, please take a moment, browse the selections at the bottom of each post, and click on anything you like. 

The support would be greatly appreciated :) 

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I wanted to let everyone know that new recipes are coming. I have just been super busy at college and have not had the time to blog.

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As many of you may know, I an a senior in college pursuing a degree in Pure Mathematics. 

Due to tests in Real Analysis I and Abstract Algebra I, in the coming week, there will most likely be no new recipes.

But once my schedule levels out, the recipes will rerun. 

And thanks to all those who support Golden Isles Cooks and I hope to see you all real soon.

Your faithful Chef,

Dayton Ireland

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Been "George Lucsas'ing" several of the recipes on this blog, adding new notes and technique advice. So, if you go to prepare a recipe, which you have read previously, make sure to check it again, for changes, before you go to the grocery store.

Also, coming soon are comprehensive guides for all the major cuts of meat, what they are, what they should look like, and most importantly, in which type of dishes they are used most commonly. 

Then later, fish, fruits, and vegetables 

To all those who are following Golden Isles Cooks, THANK YOU for your support.

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The chicken pot pie recipe is the first of many to come. I hope to create an online cookbook for my friends and family to enjoy, but also anyone who might benefit from the knowledge I have to offer.

I you may or may not have already read that I am a college student, who, in a previous life, was an executive chef at upscale and fine dining restaurants. So as you might imagine, I was very spoiled when it came to food and as a college student, in the beginning, I mainly subsisted off of Raman noodles. I figured, even though I am in my 40's, I might as well get the full college experience. Well, after a year or so of tastebud abuse, I decided to stretch my culinary legs and see if I could pull of meals that taste and look like upscale restaurant food, but with the ingredients I could afford, you know, the cheap stuff.

Thus I began began the obnoxious activity of photographing the meals I created and posting them to Facebook as food porn. People seemed to enjoy them, so it seemed the next logical step to start posting full albums of photos, as a recipe, with each photo being a step in the cooking process and the description of each step in the captions. So a couple of months went by and it became clear that the Facebook page would eventually become a mass of information with no good way to access it. This is why I decided to create this blog and move everything over from Facebook.

All of the dishes that will appear on this blog are just dinners I have cooked for my wife and I, and therefore, all the recipes will use only utilize equipment you'd find in anyone's kitchen and food you can get at any grocery store. Within each recipe, I will try and build in as many "tricks of the trade" that will not only make cooking the recipe easier, but will serve to make the preparer a better cook. If a dish was something I created on the fly, there most likely will not be a story attached, so I'll try and include the inspiration for the dish, but, if I am recreating something from my restaurant days, usually there is a funny story involved, so I'll do my best to tell it.

Hope you enjoy this blog.