Cheffy Skills Quickies Cookbook

Cheffy Skills Quickies Cookbook – Master the Art of Cooking with Confidence

The Ultimate Cookbook for Aspiring Chefs, Foodies & Hospitality Professionals

Whether you're a passionate home cook, a hospitality student, or a professional chef looking to refine your craft, the Cheffy Skills Quickies Cookbook is your perfect kitchen companion. This comprehensive guide brings together over 180 tried-and-tested recipes across 228 pages, crafted to take your cooking skills from average to extraordinary.

With 32 years of experience in the culinary world, I’ve created this book to be more than just a collection of recipes. It’s your personal reference book for culinary success, combining foundational techniques with creative flair — all designed to build your confidence and chef skills, and help you thrive in any kitchen environment.

✅ What’s Inside the Cheffy Skills Quickies Cookbook?

Whether you're starting your cooking journey or you're a seasoned chef aiming to refine your basics, this book covers everything you need:

• 🍞 Breads, pastries, and pasta made simple

• 🍲 Soups, salads, starters, and mains that impress

• 🍰 Show-stopping desserts for every occasion

• 🍽️ Plating and presentation tips for that restaurant-quality look

• 🧂 Essential sauces and condiments – both classic and creative

• 🧑🍳 Guidance on kitchen techniques and cheffy shortcuts

The recipes are easy to follow, beautifully explained, and tested for consistent success and chef skills.

👩🏫 Perfect for Hospitality Students, Teachers & Food Industry Professionals

This book isn’t just for the home kitchen. It’s a must-have for food technology teachers, hospitality students, galley cooks and chefs,and professionals in:

• Cafés and restaurants

• Catering companies and food trucks

• School canteens and hospitality training programs

• Aged care facilities, mining kitchens, yacht and boat chefs

• Disability support, au pairs, and remote cooking environments

If you're responsible for training staff, converting recipes, or creating efficient kitchen processes, this book will become your go-to reference. Designed with practicality and clarity in mind, it’s also an excellent companion for food tech teachers and school leavers embarking on culinary careers.

🍽️ Recipe Highlights from the Cheffy Skills Quickies Cookbook but you will also have all the classic mains and desserts that aren't listed here:

👨🍳 Breads, Wraps & Biscuits

• 🍞 Quickie Carb-Free Bread in a Mug

• 🍞 5-Minute Keto Bread

• 🥖 Grissini Sticks & Salted Rosemary Focaccia

• 🫓 Ciabatta (No Knead, High Hydration)

• 🥯 Decadent Brioche & Vanilla Glazed Donuts

• 🫓 Pita with Petals & Bling, Seeded Wraps, Seed Crackers

🥐 Pastries & Doughs

• 🥐 Puff Pastry (Pâte Feuilletée), Rough Puff, Phyllo & Choux

• 🥧 French Shortcrust, Sweet Shortcrust, Cream Cheese Pastry

• 🧁 Choux au Craquelin, Tempura & Yorkshire Puddings

• 🍪 Spiced Caramel Fig Rusks, Basic & Sweet Scones

🍝 Pasta, Pizza & Gnocchi

• 🍝 Basic Pasta Recipe from Scratch

• 🥟 Roasted Pumpkin & Speck Ravioli

• 🥟 Spinach & Ricotta Ravioli with Burnt Sage Butter

• 🍕 Authentic Pizza with Cheffy Dough

• 🥔 Rustic Italian Gnocchi & Parmesan Roman Gnocchi

• 🍝 Change Your Life Bolognaise

🥫 Classic Sauces & Culinary Foundations

• 🧄 Classic Béchamel & Velouté with Daughter Sauces

• 🍄 Mushroom, Mornay, Supreme, and Soubise Sauces

• 🍖 Demi-Glace & Brown Sauce with Derivatives like Chasseur, Duxelles, and Madeira

• 🌶️ House-made BBQ Sauce & Sugo with Roasted Capsicum

🍳 Hot & Cold Emulsified Sauces

• 🧈 Hollandaise & Béarnaise (Blender Method Too!)

• 🧄 Truffle Cream Sauce, Parmesan Pepper Cream, Sauce Choron

• 🥄 Classic Mayonnaise & Daughter Dressings: Caesar, Ranch, Lemon Pepper

🥗 Dips, Dressings & Butters

• 🥕 Carrot Ginger Dressing, Thai Salad Dressing, Vietnamese Dipping Sauce

• 🍯 Sweet Chilli Sauce, Beetroot Balsamic Glaze, Chimichurri

• 🧈 Whipped Truffle Butter, Clarified Butter, Burnt Basil & Black Pepper Butter

  These aren’t just recipes — they’re professional kitchen skills packaged in a fun, accessible way for you to master and make your own.

🎓 Train With Me Online – Learn Anytime, Anywhere

Want to take your skills even further? Pair the cookbook with my Cheffy Skills Online Cooking Course. Learn at your own pace, right from your kitchen:

• 🎥 Step-by-step videos for all techniques

• 💬 Message me through your private learning portal

• ⏪ Rewind, pause, and replay anytime

• 📜 Get certified and share your success!

🎁 The Ultimate Gift for Food Lovers

This isn’t just a cookbook — it’s a gift of confidence, creativity, and joy in the kitchen. Whether you’re shopping for yourself or someone special, the Cheffy Skills Quickies Cookbook makes an unforgettable present.

Perfect for:

• 👨👩👧👦 Mother’s Day and Father’s Day gifts

• 🎓 Kids leaving home for university or college

• 💒 Engagements, weddings, and hens party gifts

• 🎁 Foodies and aspiring home chefs

• 👨🍳 Chefs and cooks working in lodges, yachts, and galley kitchens

• 🏫 Teachers and students in food technology and hospitality programs

It’s the kind of book that keeps giving — inspiring delicious meals and empowering confidence in every kitchen it touches. Get one for yourself and another for someone you love.

💥 Order Now and Transform Your Cooking!

Cooking can be fun, stress-free, and empowering. The Cheffy Skills Quickies Cookbook gives you the tools and inspiration to feel like a real chef, every day.

Click Add to Cart and let’s get cheffy!

Happy Cooking,

Chef Mel – The Happy Chef

More Info about Cheffy Skills Quickies Cookbook

This book is a fantastic reference book for aspiring chefs and home foodies. With these tried-and-tested recipes, you can level up your cheffy skills to amazing new heights and transform your cooking knowledge quickly and easily. The recipes are simple, easy, and effective, helping you achieve the success you want and deserve.

With over 228 pages and 180+ recipes, you will use this book to become the best, most confident cook or chef you can be. 

This book is perfect for people who want to increase their cooking skills and learn to be more cheffy. This is the most comprehensive cookbook that covers fundamental cheffy skills to make you a better cook or chef. The book covers everything from bread, pastries, basic sauces, advanced sauces, plating and presentation, starters, mains, desserts and everything in between. You will also learn salads, pasta, gnocchi skills and more. 

 

💻 Learn More on YouTube

Want to see some of the dishes in action? Search the name of the dish + “Chef Mel The Happy Chef” on YouTube to cook along with me.

You will gain confidence and become unstoppable in the kitchen. Have fun, gain confidence, and have a reference book for years. And who better to teach you than a professional chef who has been a cooking school teacher for over 28 years? Her superpower is teaching and making complex dishes easy and successful. Enjoy, and make delicious discoveries along the way. Your friends, family and loved ones will notice a difference immediately...and so will you.

 

ABOUT MEL

Chef Mel Alafaci has been a professional chef since 1992. Her passion for cooking, eating, and teaching is unwavering.

Her intoxicating enthusiasm, authenticity and unique culinary lingo will have you hungry to flex your muscles in the kitchen.

Mel is brilliant at adding humour, shortcuts, and tricks to tedious tasks that can kill one's passion for cooking.

Mel has designed, tried, and tested every recipe and is proud to share them with you. As a cooking school teacher and founder of two cooking schools in her career, she is the founder of Gecko Culinary Adventures in Durban and Vanilla Zulu Cooking School in Brisbane and has had years to fine-tune her teaching style. You are in good hands.