Finding your Niche in Cooking

Professional chefs and amateur chefs all have their own style of cooking. Whether it be a specific cuisine or a mixture of two cuisines; they find their niche in cooking these meals. In order for these cooks to find themselves and begin their cooking journey they have to start in the kitchen.

Culinary expert Bobby Flay, who owns many renowned restaurants across America, started working in a restaurant making salads and the executive chef noticed his passion for food and paid for him to go to French Culinary Institute, that he graduated from in 1984.

Now that may sound lucky but Flay put in many years of work before opening his first restaurant in 2008 “Bobby’s Burger Palace”. Today, Flay is well known for his Southwestern and Mediterranean styles of cooking and he is the “master of sauces” according to multiple Food Network Chefs. All this learning Flay did not only put him where he is today but helped him find his niche in cooking.

Another upcoming culinary expert in the making is Ryan Keys an engineer student at the University of Arkansas. His passion for cooking shows through all of his Instagram pictures that are mouthwatering even just looking at them.

Keys got into cooking because his parents spoiled him with delicious home-cooked meals all of his life and it inspired him to keep up the tradition after he left for college. Keys has been cooking different types of cuisines and trying new things ever since he was on his own.

Chef Keys found his niche by cooking his favorite meals that he learned at his home in Texarkana, AR.

His parents cooked a lot of barbecue and Italian inspired pastas from scratch. After countless times of cooking these meals and loving doing it he realized he wanted to take it to the next level. Keys started a foodie Instagram page and bought a Kamado Joe smoker, Ooni pizza grill and some ingredients to get it started. He has been living here in Texas with his girlfriend’s family making them exceptional dinners and feeding the eyes of Instagram too.

Chef Ryan Keys loves to make various types of foods and in the (top left) he made spaghetti and meatballs from scratch with a tomato basil based sauce. In the (top right) He made kabobs on his Kamado Joe grill. One was with buffalo chicken with celery and red onion. The second was a homemade sesame style marinade with assorted bell pepper, onion and zucchini. The third was with bell pepper, red onion, squash and zucchini. “Keys to Cooking” (bottom left) is his logo for his instagram handle (@keystocooking) it has his dog Tito as the mascot who helps him clean up after cooking. A pizza from scratch on Keys Ooni pizza oven he made cheese pizza with red sauce and fresh mozzarella.

Here’s more tasty food made by Chef Ryan Keys. He is always cooking and making his viewers hungry with every post. It makes people wonder when he will start up a restaurant. He has been smoking a lot of meats and getting more experience doing it (top left). He smoked a pulled pork shoulder and made a pulled pork sandwich. He smoked it for nine hours on his Kamado Joe. He loves to have poker night with the boys and always makes an assortment of food (bottom left). As stated multiple times he has a passion for barbecuing and plans to keep smoking meats (top right). He does have a love for Italian food, so he makes his own pasta from scratch (bottom right). He made ravioli filled with 50/50 blend of cheese (mozzarella and ricotta) and then some chicken that was cooked with garlic butter. The sauce was the special part because it was a jalapeno cilantro lime cream sauce which is a secret recipe of his families. Chef keys recommends to anyone that loves to cook and wants to try something new buy a pasta maker.