Romantic Dinner for 2

You know you deserve it!

Chef Helen will supply the candles, wine , flowers!

You will choose from a 3 to 4 course menu prepared in your own home by your own Personl Chef. Heln will do all of the shopping, food preparation,and serving through dessert and even clean up!

Just $350.00 inclusive!

Kick it up!! Get a massage for each of you while Chef Helen does the cooking in your kitchen. Add $125.00 (paid separately).

Yes, gift certificates are available.

This is a very popular gift for your signifigant other, parents, boss etc.
Call to schedule!

Business Expo Tuesday

Wow!
Just $5.00 gets you all of this:

Speakers:
Barbara Socher of Self Discovery Techniques will speak about “Strategies for Success”
Darrien Dorrity will teach you “How to Price Yourself Out of Business”
Daniel Singleton will discuss “Social Media and Internet Branding”
Rick Snyder will share “Sales Tips”

Tuesday November 9, 2010
5PM to 9PM
Holiday Inn
1301 Belvedere Rd.
West Palm Beach, Fl. 33405
For info call Helen Gottesman 561-676-2078
helengottesman2001@yahoo.com

Barbara Socher


Barbara Socher is a Self Discovery Trainer. “My life experiences as an entrepreneur have given me a wide range of skills, insight and knowledge. My life experiences as a Mother and Grandmother have taught me how to be Compassionate and Wise.”

In the past few years a revolutionary strategy to realize human potential was created. The Self Discovery Techniques and Life Mastery Process have taken self-empowerment to whole new heights - we are creating an “Evolution Revolution!”

Since being introduced to the Self Discovery Life Mastery Process in 2004, Barbara focused on deepening her own self-mastery by implementing and practicing the cutting-edge Self Discovery Techniques.  

Her life was so impacted by this process that she committed to becoming a Self Discovery Trainer, and the result is that she is now amongst the few leaders and pioneers of today’s human potential movement.
 
She has spent innumerable hours training individual clients and leading workshops in developing self-mastery by using the Self Discovery Techniques

Whether a person is far along the self-empowerment path; has been meditating for years; is living a great life; or if they are just starting on their own self-exploration; or are experiencing challenges in life – no matter what their present situation – the Self Discovery Techniques can support them to create a happy, fulfilled and prosperous life.


Darrian Dority “How to Price Yourself Out Of Business”
How to Price Yourself out of Business! Darrian Dority explains the critical steps business owners sometime fail to include in the planning of their business.
Darrian Dority is a 7 time sales and marketing award recipient. Utilizing real world data and current technologies to acheive high standards. With an emphasis on small and medium companies , I strive to help the underdog become the big dog. "So when success is critical" call the expert! www.darrianDority.com


Daniel Singleton “Social Media and Internet Branding”



Blogging and Social Media 101
Your competitors are using social media platforms like blogs, Twitter, and Facebook to reach their customers in order to grow their businesses and profits-are you? In this Social Media 101 presentation, Daniel Singleton will bring you up to speed on the most effective social-media marketing strategies. With over 30 years of experience, longtime system developer Daniel Singleton describes tactics and tools you need to get up and running with social media while avoiding the pitfalls.
You'll learn how to turn website visits into profitable relationships, develop your brand, and build massive appeal for far less cost than you might imagine. Daniel will show you how to build an effective blog or website for your business, increase your online reputation and take control of the results people get when they "Google" you or your business together with discussing the best ways to create new online content about your products and services with your customers.
If you aren't using the Internet and social media to market your business and stay in touch with your customers, you're already falling behind. This presentation will share the effective, proven strategies you need to succeed.

Rick Snyder “Sales Tips”


 
Rick has been in sales for more than 30 years, as a broadcasting/advertising sales person, radio sales manager, radio general manager, business magazine owner, mattress store owner, public radio and TV underwriting executive and sales trainer. 
 
Rick’s career started as an on-the-air DJ so he’s really been talking all his life! The development of his training program has been a natural outgrowth of what he’s learned, researched, and practiced.  After several years of training entry level sales people, Rick realized that it was not the rookies that needed to keep current. It’s  the experienced, on the street sales pros working to make a living at their craft and finding things more and more difficult as the economy worsened and management became more demanding. 
 
The pressure from both sides of the aisle has squeezed out the faint of heart, those who don’t think they can do it and those who don’t want to do it. But for those that persist in sales, those who love the business they’re in, there’s been another effect.  We’re all worked so hard and we’re all put under so much pressure to bring in the business, that basic sales techniques that are essential to be a success -- from the cold call to the close -- have been pushed aside. 
 
Rick is here to remind us how use these crucial techniques, to polish our presentations and to remember how the fundamentals of good sales really work.

Daniel Singleton


Meet Vendors and Learn about their Businesses:
Arbonne **SPGraphics Printing and Promotional Items
Crown Financial Services **Computer Troubleshooters
Dr. Ally, Chiropractor** Enogic Water**The Gilmore Group, Small Biz Solutions** Itex barter
“Coach Judy” will be broadcasting her radio show live at the event to benefit the “National Single Parent Resource Network.**And so many more!!
The event will be videotaped so you can buy a CD and listen to the speakers later!

JCC Food Pantry will be collecting canned goods for their Thanksgiving Food drive!

Each vendor is expected to have a raffle of their goods or services !!
There will also be a 50/50 raffle at the event!!

For more information, call Helen or Robert Gottesman
561-676-2078 or 561-676-2075 helengottesman2001@yahoo.com
Sponsored by Free Networking International www.freenetworkinginternational.com
Central Palm Beach County Group

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Palm Beach Post Interview

Iwas interviewed last week for an article in the Palm beast Post food section on Sept 8th. Full photos too!!

Our trip up North

We drove up North to a Yachad Shabatton (www.njcd.org ) at the Hudson Valley Resort and spa. We met the most amazing people aND DISCUSSED THE FUTURE FOR OUR SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN. The best was our meeting the Lazaroff family from Baltimore. they are planning a "CVAmp Hill" style environment in Baltimore.

What i prepared today for Pesach

Today is erev Pesach. We are going to our shul for the seder, but I cooked for tomorrow and later in the week. I prepared a 10 pound turkey (easy as pie, if you have 3 hours to leave it in the oven). I made two sheet pans of potato kugel, 2 sheet pans of brownies and a pot of stuffed cabbage using 1/2 a head of cabbage from Bedner's fruit market in Boynton Beach. I am about to make the charoses for tomorrow since I am not allowed to grate the apples on Yom Tov. I have one of the easiest chocolate brownie recipes for Pesach from "the haimishe Kitchen" 4 whole eggs
1/2 cups sugar
1 cup oil
1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup cocoa1/2 cup chopped nuts
3/4 cup potato starch

Mix eggs until yolks and whites are combined, not foamy.Add the rest of the ingredients and mix just until the mixture is smooth. DO NOT OVERMIX. Bake in a 9 by 13 inch pan for 45 to 50 minutes at 350..

I have made this for several years, very popular and you dont have to separate the eggs like so many other Passsover recipes.

A zissen Pesach

Chef Helen

Pesach/Passover Prep

Today is the day before Passover, Tonight is the first seder. Most Jews do some sort of prep for the holidays. We try to do everything right.

We searched our house for and used up or packed away leftover chametz We threw awy or ate everything early (garbage picked up before 8am.)
We then burn any odds and ends in a fire (behind the shul this year)

I had my last cook date yesterday morning. I cooked for a lady in Boynton while hubby shopped for everything on my list!!. He is amazing. He managed the crazy stores as Kosher Marketplace, Glicks, Publix, Winn-Dixie,
and the Dollar Store (4 for a dollar fresh toothbrushes).

I finished the cookdate and everything was in my clients fridge by 1PM. Then, I went with hubby and son to Bedner's fruit and veg market in Boynton Beach for the freshest veggies!!


All errands were completed and we even went to Jon's for last of the pizza by 4PM and ices at Ritas in Boynton and home by 5:30.
Helen

website and twitter updates

I am now looking at cookbooks to find recipes to convert for Passover, What foods can you not live without for a week. There are commercially made Pesach Pizzas out there now, (can you believe it?) I make just about everything from scratch and try to avoid additives in foods for myself and clients. Just let me know what you want and I will make it at home and you get the benefit of a new recipe!!

Chef Helen

I am updating mywebsite www.helenshomecooking.com and my twitter account as chefhelen.
All comments appreciated
ChefHelen

I am now putting together plans for a dinner party for about 30 guests. I will add the menu to the blog (maybe some recipes) later today

Helen

Adir in Basketball Special Olympics

Woo Hoo!! My son Adir was invited to go to the State Basketball Playoffs in the Special Olympics. Go get 'em Adir!!

Yesterday's Cook Date.

Yesterday, I left the house to start shopping for my client about 7:45. I made stops at "The Boyz" in Del Ray, Publix and WalMart to get everything and got to the new client just about 10AM in Del Ray Beach.

I made the Stuffing (as for Thanksgiving) first, then went on to the Baked Sweet Potatoes. I made the Chicken Piccata and the Meat loaf at the same time as there were not enough saute pans to do everything at once. The Chicken Marsala was only slightly different from the Piccata, so that was easy. I followed that with the string beans Amondine and the carrots. Of course the Meat Loaf had the sweet (Diet Coke) sauce on the side.

I did not finish cleaning everything until about 5Pm when my hubby picked me up. By then, everything was neatly packaged in Gladware containers or ziploc bags (the salad greens and fresh cut fruit).

Atvantages to kosher food that you did not know

Why keep kosher?

In the book of Deuteronomy/Devarim in the Bible, G-d instructs the Jewish people to keep kosher to keep them selveselves holy. As Jews we are supposed ro follow exactly as G-d decrees. I have been keeping kosher for over 20 years.

I am always looking for "rational" explanations from outside sources that show G-d knew what he was talking about. I find this in the most unusual places.

I was re-reading Kevin Trudeau's book last weeek on "Natural Cures They Don't Want You To Know About". Mr. Trudeau said that he does not eat pork as pigs will eat everything in their path, even their own poop. They have eaten shoes, paper, anthing.Hey you are what you eat, so I don't eat pork.
He also discusses fish with fins and scales as opposed to fish with only fins. He mentioned that when he lived in Boston and there was a "red tide" outbreak in the ocean, fish with both fins and scales (flounder, sole, salmon etc) could be eaten as they are able to filter out the toxins from their systems while other aquatic creatures with out fins & scales are unable to filter out the toxins (catfish, shark, lobster, shrimp). Again, you are what you eat.

Speaking of shrimp, they live the same way cockroaches do, except they are in the ocean. Think of that the next time you order some in a restaurant. Kosher meat is looking pretty good , isn't it?
Helen email if you care to discuss helen@helenshomecooking.net You kosher Personal Chef in Florida

Helen does the Holiday Cooking

When you want haimische tasting meals your Bubby made without slaving in the kitchen!!
And it is kosher to boot!
Let Helen’s Home Cooking do the work for the Holidays.
Helen Gottesman is a Personal Chef focused on the kosher consumer. She now brings you food prepared by her from scratch in a kosher restaurant (Morel’s) and it is under ORB supervision!!

Soup (choose one)
Chicken Matzo Ball
Split Pea (Meatless/Pareve)
Lentil Soup (Meatless/Pareve)

Main Dishes
(Choose up to 5)
Stuffed Cabbage
Unstuffed Cabbage
Apricot Chicken
Chicken Picatta
Mediterranean Beef Stew
Chili with Beans, spicy comfort food
Stewed Chicken with Meatballs

Sides (Choose 2)
Risotto with garlic, onion, fresh vegetables in season
Sweet Noodle Kugel with Fruit
Kasha Varnishkas
Roasted Veggies Roasting root veggies brings out their sweetness with seasonal vegetables and a touch of oil & herbs
Green Beans Gremolata (with lemon zest, garlic and parsley)

$85.00/person with a 2 person minimum includes 5 main courses, 2 side dishes and a soup per person.

Delivery is available.
To place your order, call Helen Gottesman at 561-676-2078 or fax to 561-509-8303. Payment (at least 50% in advance) can be made by check, cash, or PayPal to Helen Gottesman. This plan is available through October.
www.helenshomecooking.net Helen@helenshomecooking.net

Chili is my favorite comfort food

I made chili for a client on Thursday and realized as I tasted it for spicing tat it is my favorite comfort food. I couldn't wait to make this easy dish for myself and my family Friday night. The recipe or a variant thereof was in the South Beach diet cookbook.

1 pound ground beef (probably would work with other ground meat as well)
1/2 cup diced onions, peppers, mushrooms (optional)
1 can red beans or canellini beans drained
1 can diced tomatoes
dash to 1.4tsp of cumin, garam msala and/or cayenne to taste

Brown the ground meat in a fry pan, breaking up with aspoon untilit is all browned. If desired, drain fat with aid of colander. Add in diced onions peppers and mushrooms if using and cook for a minute or two until until onions brown, them add spices. Add in the beans and stir. Add in the tomatoes and cook on low flame for 30 to 45 minutes or longer as mixture thickens. Taste for spices, adding as needed. this is delicious overwhite or brown rice.

Yum.

Helen

Recent trend?

I have rceived several calls for low fat cooking in the past few weeks. Each client has their unique take on this but I am coming up with unique recipes to suit each clients needs.

I will be cooking Poached Chicken on a spinach salad
Poached Salmon on Asparagus
Tandoori dry rub on turkey cutlets with whole wheat pasta spirals
Roast veggies
Steamed fish
Mizutaki

This is going to be yummy. Now if could just get my hubby and son to eat like this..........

Helen

Master Networkers!!

Last night Robert (my husband) and I did the first half of our Master Networkers Course in preparation for our becoming Directors of the first FNI group on the East Coast of Florida.

This was some of the best hours that we spent on the phone that involved our businesses. We learned how to do effective networking (unlike the biz card exchange that usually takes place).

By "interviewing" each contact we can find out what they want/need to take their businesses to the next level? what exactly is their niche? What makes them unique?

Would you like to join us at aa FNI event which we are planning on starting right after Independence Day? Would you like to start another FNI group? Or most importantly would you like to learn how to be a Master Networker?

Call us or call David Doerges at 727-542-8686. Just let him know you heard about it from me. In the meantime, check out http://www.freenetworkinginternational.com/ . FNI was started in the Tampa Florida area and now has about 40 groups. Ours will be the first group on the East Coast of Florida.

Helen Gottesman
561-676-2078
http://www.helenshomecooking.com/
www.youravon.com/hgottesman

Dinner at the Gottesmans

In a few minutes I am going to start making Arroz Con Pollo a la Helen. I will also make my Matzo Ball Soup and stir fried Veggies.

I already have the kokosh cakes (similar to babke) I made yesterday in the freezer along with my challahs (which I make 8 at a time).

I plan on writing up the recipes as a separate entry>

Helen Gottesman
Helen's Home Cooking & Catering
561-676-2078