Chef Hunter Lee Let’s get shakin!!! This time last year I was returning from a book promotional tour that included Asheville, North Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah Georgia. It was an amazing adventure but over 2,400 miles round trip, it was a lot of driving and let me tellContinue Reading
Chef Hunter Lee Let’s get shakin! Don’t get me wrong there are many things to enjoy about the south in the summer. Boating, lakes, beaches, pools. Obviously most involve water because let’s face it, it gets miserably HOT. In fact, we are having one of the worst summers we haveContinue Reading
Chef Hunter Lee Let’s get shakin’! So it goes without saying some of the best food (if not the best) comes from Louisiana. Argue that if you want but I wouldn’t argue it with a Louisianian This next recipe is one of my absolute favorites. You will find as many variationsContinue Reading
Chef Hunter Lee Let’s get shakin’ Y’all this has been a favorite all my life. Yes, believe it or not I was one of those kids that ate vegetables. Maybe partly because I’m still from that era that you ate what was cooked. None of this, “ oh the kidsContinue Reading
Chef Hunter Lee Let’s get shakin!!! That’s right s’mores in the summer, it’s a thing, or it could be. I’ve never been considered completely sane and with it 100° or hotter outside, I probably got ya attention. But seriously if you like them, you like them, if you have everContinue Reading
Hunter Lee Let’s get shakin!! I posted a picture on Facebook, at home making a BLT sandwiches. Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato and let me tell you, everyone went crazy. I know everyone on social media would rather see pictures of my food than my face and I’ve embraced that but thisContinue Reading
Chef Hunter Lee/Tips & Tales With Chef Let’s get shakin!!! If you are from the south, you already know, if not, I’m ‘bout to tell you all about it. Growing up you could open the fridge and there would be 4-5 plastic butter tubs. Did we like butter? Well yeah,Continue Reading
Chef Hunter Lee/Tips & Tales With Chef Let’s get shakin!!!!! When you think of Louisiana you think of cotton, sugarcane, rice, even corn, but how about blueberries? Absolutely, especially if you are over 40 years old and from DeSoto Parish Louisiana. It conjures memories of the Blueberry Festival, half theContinue Reading
Chef Hunter Lee/Tips & Tales With Chef It’s wedding season yall!!! So as most of you know I closed my last full-service catering business over 8 years ago. I have since helped friends, past clients, and local organizations, but I officially stopped all catering with a final wedding I didContinue Reading
Chef Hunter Lee/Tips & Tales With Chef Let’s get shakin!! I posted a picture on Facebook, at home making a BLT sandwiches. Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato and let me tell you, everyone went crazy. I know everyone on social media would rather see pictures of my food than my face andContinue Reading
Let’s get shakin!!! “Pass it on,” children and young adults in the kitchen! How many of you still cook with the kiddos? Cookies? Cupcakes? Grillin? Let them help with dinner? Sadly, this has become a dying trend over the last few decades. Kids in the kitchen: not only does itContinue Reading
Chef Hunter Lee Let’s get shakin!!! That’s right s’mores in the summer, it’s a thing, or it could be. I’ve never been considered completely sane and with it 100° or hotter outside, I probably got ya attention. But seriously if you like them, you like them, if you have everContinue Reading
Chef Hunter Lee/Tips & Tales With Chef Let’s get shakin’ It’s Spring y’all and it’s time to clean up that grill, and maybe even look at an upgrade. Spring and Summer grilling in the South is about as southern and natural as a glass of good, sweet tea. I canContinue Reading
Chef Hunter Lee/Tips & Tales With Chef Let’s get shakin’ Well, we have now laid Mardi Gras and Carnival Season 2023 to rest. A lot of us are gearing up for lent! With Easter and Spring right here around the corner. Gardens are being tilled, diets are being altered toContinue Reading
Let’s get Shakin!!! Here we are in the middle of Mardi Gras season and like every year, I’m getting the same questions and comments. “I wanna make something traditional, and I wanna make something good, but it just takes too long to make, I am not an expert in theContinue Reading
Staff Reports As southerners say, Chef Hunter Lee was “born and bred in Louisiana.” He spent much of his youth hunting, fishing and enjoying a life filled with family, great food and entertaining. As a young man, he spent 15 years as a professional chef before cultivating the Benwood’s SurelyContinue Reading
Chef Hunter Lee/Tips & Tales With Chef Let’s get Shakin’ Hope everyone is enjoying those Grand Ball’s, and parades. That’s right, it’s Mardi Gras Season here in the south. So far, I have gotten to enjoy the Krewe of Demeter Grand Ball in Mansfield, La., and I’m looking forward to FebruaryContinue Reading