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HEALTH AND WELLNESS
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ARE YOU READY TO TRANSFORM THE HEALTH OF YOUR WORKFORCE AND LOWER YOUR HEALTHCARE SPEND?
Book a Health and Wellness Cooking Class
What’s For Dinner?” Cooking Skills Series
The five skills taught in this class are fundamental to putting a healthy and taste-bud tingling dinner on the table any night of the week with minimal effort.
Each class in the series is a standalone unit. Participants can earn a “Certified Home Cook” certificate with participation in all six of the classes in the series.
Inspired by Recipes
Learn tips, tricks, and cooking skills within the context of a simple recipe.
Get inspired, learn a ton, and cook a proven recipe that is easily doable on a weeknight. Book Now!
Health Begins With What You Eat
Research has proven that health begins with what you eat.
My mission is to equip workers with the skills and knowledge they need to answer well the most important question of every day, “What’s for dinner?”.
I empower people to be FEARLESS in the kitchen by teaching the basic cooking skills everyone needs to put a tasty delicious meal on the table, especially on a weeknight.
My cooking classes are fun and interactive. Participants are encouraged to ask questions and make comments. And they learn a ton.
Class content is focused on four key areas:
• cooking skill
• health benefits of cooking fresh food at home
• money-saving benefits of eating a home-cooked meal
• importance of spending time at the table to build strong relationships.
The Recipe for Success
Live Instruction
Virtual and in-person with Chef Sandra Lewis. Before she went to culinary school, Chef Sandra invested 20+ years in a corporate career as a single, working mom. When her girls were in college she sold her house, put everything in storage and went to culinary school. Today her passion is to teach people to share the joys of sharing the table by making short work of preparing delicious and healthy food.
Cooking Made Easy
Recipes and cooking techniques are tailored for the home cook for maximum flavor with minimum fuss. Who wants to slave in the kitchen after a long day at work?!
Interact with the Chef
Ask questions, make comments. Next to the cooking, this is the best part of an in-person or virtual class.
Birds-Eye View
With our two-camera view you’ll always see the chef and their countertop or stovetop.
Online Access to Featured Recipes
Free and unlimited access to any of our online recipes.
Beyond Cooking
Content also features strategies and tips for grocery shopping, pantry management, time-saving approaches in the kitchen, and nutritional benefits of the featured recipe.
WHAT’S FOR DINNER COOKING SKILLS SERIES
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Good things come in fives.
Five fingers. Five senses. Five elements of the universe.
In the kitchen, all you need are five, count ‘em, FIVE cooking skills to answer the most important question of the day, “What’s for dinner?”.
Never again wonder what’s for dinner or suffer the 5 o’clock-dinnertime panic.
Be FEARLESS. Never again feel like the kitchen is for professionals only. Unchain from the tyranny of using a recipe and learn to cook with confidence. Own your kitchen, own your skills, own your meals.
Be BOLD. Cooking is the ultimate have it your way experience. Prepare fresh, tastebud tingling, and satisfying meals every night of the week that are easy on the pocketbook and the time bank.
Be FILLED. Bring life back to your home by cooking and sharing meals at the table with family and friends where you feed body, soul, and spirit.
“WHAT’S FOR DINNER?”
COOKING SKILLS SERIES
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. Sauté With the Best of ‘Em Never again serve a plate of soggy, tasteless vegetables to your friends, family, and most importantly, yourself.
5
. Soup-Making Nothing is more satisfying than transforming a handful of ingredients into a beautiful, tasty liquid form.
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. Salad-Making Once you appreciate the diversity of what a salad can be, you’ll never again settle for a few green leaves topped with a cherry tomato and a bottled salad dressing. Book Now!
INSPIRED BY RECIPES
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All of our recipes feature from scratch cooking featuring fresh fruits and vegetables and are designed for minimum fuss and maximum flavor on a weeknight.
Don’t let any of the “fancy” titles fool you. ALL of these recipes are easy to do on a weeknight.
Our recipe selection is vast and we always offer suggestions for substitutions to accommodate food allergies, personal preferences, etc.
If you don’t see what you’re looking for, ring us. We add new recipes weekly. Each session is 45 minutes to an hour.
All of these yummy dishes are easily prepared on a weeknight.
And each recipe can be adjusted to suit your group’s preferences, e.g., substitute chicken for salmon, etc.
Seafood
Baked Cod + White Wine Lemon Sauce
Cajun Shrimp + Grits
Mediterranean Quinoa Salad + Pan-Seared Salmon
Orzo Salad + Basil Vinaigrette + Oil Poached Shrimp
Paella + Mussels + Shrimp
Pan-Seared Scallops + Rice Noodle Salad
Risotto + Pan-Seared Scallops
Shrimp al Ajillo
Tamari Grilled Salmon
Tuna Nicoise Salad
Vietnamese Spring Rolls + Peanut Dipping Sauce
Chicken
Baked Chicken
Cajun Chicken Crepes
Fiji Chicken Curry
Greek Chicken Nachos
Herbs de Provence Chicken
Hot Wings
Lentil Salad + Pan-Seared Chicken
Nashville Hot (or not!) Chicken Sandwich
Pistachio Crusted Chicken + Mustard Cream Sauce
Thai Chicken Curry
Meats
Arrachera Street Tacos
Cumin and Chili Rubbed Pork Chops
Flatbread Pizza + Pepperoni + Vegetables
Grilled Steak + Chimichurri Sauce
Juniper Berry Roasted Pork Tenderloin + Polenta
Lebanese Meatballs + Tabbouleh
Pan-Seared Lamb Chops + Chive Yogurt Sauce
Smash Burgers + Spicy Mango Sauce
Steak au Poivre + Brandy Cream Sauce
Sirloin (or Chicken) Shish Kebabs + Veggies
Tex Mex Tacos + Homemade Tortillas
Salads
Asian Cole Slaw
Crunchy Apple Salad + Manchego Cheese + Allspice Dressing
Goat Cheese and Pistachio Salad + Herb Vinaigrette
Grapefruit + Avocado Salad
Spinach Salad + Fennel Salad Dressing
Sweet Potato and Quinoa Salad Bowl + Feta + Mint
Tabbouleh
Wild Rice + Butternut Squash + Leeks
Soups
Broccoli Cream Soup
Butternut Squash Soup
Jalapeño Cream Soup
Mushroom Cream Soup
Spicy Ramen-Style Chicken Soup
Sweet Potato Soup
Turkey and Kale Soup
Vegetables
Asparagus + Hollandaise Sauce
Broccolini + Sherry Vinaigrette
Brussels Sprouts + Bacon
Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Green Beans + Shallot + Lemon
Grilled Mexican Corn
Sautéed Carrots + Paprika + Orange Zest
Sautéed Spinach + Garlic + Pine Nuts
Sweet Potato Hash
Vegetarian
Falafel Burgers
Pad Thai + Tofu
Pasta alla Penne
Shakshuka
Vegetable Omelet
AboutCHEF SANDRA. FOUNDER AND OWNER.
Chef Sandra Lewis is an entertaining and deliciously inspiring chef and speaker, classically-trained in French cuisine.
Before enrolling in culinary school, she raised two daughters as a single working mom with a corporate job for 20+ years. Life at the table was the rhythm of life as she and her daughters gathered nightly at the home table and shared a home-cooked meal.
When her daughters entered college, Chef Sandra sold her house put everything in storage and enrolled in culinary school.
She founded Life At The Table in 2007 to inspire, educate, and skill people to spend more time at the home table and less time in the kitchen.
Today Life At The Table delivers fun culinary team building events, cooking classes, and health and wellness programs.
Chef Sandra is host of a weekly podcast, A Savory Moment, on Spotify and iTunes, is an Adjunct Culinary Instructor for Dallas College.
Chef Sandra earned her BS in Mass Communications, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of Utah, and earned an AAS with Honors in Culinary Arts from Le Cordon Bleu Dallas.
