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The Busy Kitchen: Family cooking tips and ideas

The Busy Kitchen is a new Monday column written by two area chefs - Tiffany Poe and Valarie Carter - who also happen to be mothers of young children. They'll explore nutrition, cooking for kids and more.

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Busy Kitchen chefs continue food challenge with savory salad

Busy Kitchen chefs continue food challenge with savory salad   5/13/2013

If you've been following along, you already know that the Busy Kitchen is in the midst of a 90-day, 90 percent unprocessed food challenge and that my family is in the midst of a move toward Tulsa.

Give Meditterasian cuisine a try

Give Meditterasian cuisine a try   5/6/2013

As many of you know, the 'Busy Kitchen' families have been taking on the 90-day unprocessed food challenge.

Busy Kitchen: Simple veggie prep makes unprocessed challenge easier

Busy Kitchen: Simple veggie prep makes unprocessed challenge easier   4/29/2013

How's the 90 day, 90 percent unprocessed challenge going for you? For me and my family it has been nothing short of, well, challenging.

The Busy Kitchen: The 90-day challenge is under way

The Busy Kitchen: The 90-day challenge is under way   4/22/2013

Today marks the end of week one of our 90-day, 90-percent challenge here at 'Busy Kitchen.'

Busy Kitchen: Take our 90-day food challenge

Busy Kitchen: Take our 90-day food challenge   4/15/2013

Come. Join us on a journey.

Pairing sweet with not-so-sweet flavors enhances dish

Pairing sweet with not-so-sweet flavors enhances dish   4/8/2013

When it comes to achieving the perfect flavor in a dish, there is nothing more important than the four basic components of food. Sweet, sour, salty and bitter make up the framework of any properly composed bite of food.

Chef puts non-kosher spin on matzo ball soup

Chef puts non-kosher spin on matzo ball soup   4/1/2013

I hope that you had an opportunity to make Val's roasted chicken in the past couple of weeks and that you saved the stock. If not, now's the time. Spring is upon us and soon, hot soup won't hit the spot.

Gluten-free cooking, eating can be tasty adventure

Gluten-free cooking, eating can be tasty adventure   3/25/2013

Choosing to cook and eat gluten-free, whether for necessity or dietary benefits, can be an intimidating - and yet exciting adventure.

Roasted chicken an easy favorite

Roasted chicken an easy favorite   3/18/2013

While receiving my formal culinary training, I had the pleasure of working as a personal chef for a Jewish family in Atlanta. The matriarch of the family was an excellent cook and she taught me many techniques and recipes that I still use today.

Eat gluten-free with ease

Eat gluten-free with ease   3/11/2013

For most Americans, consuming wheat or wheat products on a daily basis is cliche.

Busy Kitchen: Couscous fun word for kids to say, healthy dish to eat

Busy Kitchen: Couscous fun word for kids to say, healthy dish to eat   3/4/2013

We may take mealtime too seriously.

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Tiffany Poe

She is a certified executive chef and graduate of The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. She is the owner of Tiffany Poe Culinary Services - a consulting, food styling and corporate coaching company - and her clients include The Pioneer Woman, Food Network and Food Network Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, Country Living, Southwest Dairy Farmers Association, Reader's Digest, BlogHer, Bush's Baked Beans and Land O'Lakes.

Poe and her husband, Steven, have been married for 12 years and have three small children. They are the owners and innkeepers at The Grandview Inn, a historic bed and breakfast near the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Pawhuska. Poe blogs as Gastronomy Mommy.

Check out her website at tulsaworld.com/gastronomymommy.

Valarie Carter



She is a Webbers Falls native and graduate of Fort Gibson High School. She earned a bachelor's degree in English from Oklahoma State University and an associate of arts in culinary arts from the Art Institute of Atlanta. After extensive work in hotels and country clubs, Carter spent nearly five years as a personal chef for families in Oklahoma City and Atlanta. She also worked as a culinary arts instructor at Oklahoma State University-IT for five years.

She lives in Muskogee with her husband and two small children.