Chef Shelley Pogue is a Le Cordon Bleu graduate from The Texas Culinary Academy located in Austin, Texas. Chef Pogue graduated with honors of cum laude with a GPA of 3.71. Shelley went to work for The Hills Fitness Center in Westlake Hills after graduation and stayed the for one year as the Executive Chef. She then left The Hills and went to work for a company Vertical Sales and Marketing, San Ramon, CA. CHef Pogue is currently developing sauces and meal concepts for large retail markets in the US. Chef Pogue lives in Austin, TX, and is also a personal chef and caterer, and also working on developing a recipe and cook book.

Here are some kitchen terms and the meanings for them, so they may be helpful to you when trying to understand the cookbooks on today's market. They may come in handy to help understand the terminolog...

Napoleons are a great classic French dessert. They are a puff pastry, with vanilla cream filling, and vanilla and chocolate icing, and sometimes powdered sugar. The pastry name in French means a thous...

Germans are famous for their cake recipes. They have several that I love, such as the Sacher Cake and also the German Chocolate cake, and have made them both on several occasions. I have came up with ...

Scones are all the rave these days, they are a light dessert that go very well with coffee, and are sold at most coffee shops, and especially Starbucks. This is a really nice chocolate raspberry scone...

A consomme is made by adding a mixture of ground meats or mouselin with Mirepoix, tomatoes, and egg whites into either bouillon or stock. It is a process in which you will clarify the stock into a sup...

Grand Veneur has the meaning of great hunter or great forest man or hunter. This is a recipe for the best of the venison meat. It consists of the loin on venison. It is the most tender part of any mea...

This is a grileed hangar steak recipe that is served with a very nice roasted shallot demi sauce. I hope you enjoy this recipe.

This is a Veal Scallopini Saltimbocca recipe served over a Bleu Cheese polenta. If you like veal and polenta dishes, I would highly recommend this dish. It is a classical Italian dish with the extra k...

This is a great meal for anyone to try whether a novice cook or intermediate. I will list in detail on how to prepare this meal from start to finish. It should take no more than 45 minutes from start ...

This is great pan seared steak recipe. It will be made with a strip steak which is a great piece of beef, but it is not the most tender cut of beef. The technique we will be using will keep this steak...

This is a really different, and very easy to make recipe. It has some really powerfuleflavor combinations. It will go really well with a nice salad, and some garlic bread. I hope that you enjoy this r...

Angel Food Cake is a very light textured dessert cake. The reason the cake is so light in texture is due to the incorporation of whipped egg whites. The processs of which this cake is made is really p...

I have made this pie with regular lime juice and it is great. I have found another trick to make this recipe even better, by using key limes. You can find them at most grocery stores year round depend...

This is a very good cherry cobbler recipe. If you want to mkae a good cherry cobbler, this is one to try.

I made this dessert for my final class in culinary school. We had to prepare a dessert with a four course meal, that we had to complete before we were able to move on. This is an excellent recipe, and...