Cooking with Chef Cherise

We’ve hosted Chef Cherise programs at our library several times over the years—Garden Appetizers, Make-Ahead Pastries, Cake Decorating, Christmas Bread (most recently)—and she’s always a hit! She’s great at giving cooking tips and drawing out audience members for hands-on practice. And the recipe samples are unfailingly delicious!

Chef Cherise is one of our library community's favorite culinary presenters. Not only does she have all the cooking and baking skills necessary for her demonstration, she also includes a PowerPoint alongside her program and offers delicious samples and copies of the recipes of the food she has prepared. Chef Cherise also invites audience members into her 'kitchen' for some 'hands-on' experience. She relates very well to our audience and shares amusing anecdotes with them. I highly recommend Chef Cherise!

Chef Cherise recently visited us at the Carol Stream Library to guide our patrons through her Baking Christmas Bread presentation. She was a huge hit with both patrons and staff alike! We particularly enjoyed how hands-on and interactive her program was. Chef Cherise had all of our patrons take a turn at kneading and rolling the dough, and she carefully guided everyone through the process, answering questions and sharing her extensive knowledge from decades in the kitchen. Her warm disposition and bright sense of humor made her a joy to work with! We've already booked her for another program, and our patrons can't wait for us to bring her back!

Our patrons thoroughly enjoyed the hands-on bread-making class offered by Chef Cherise. She guides the attendees step-by-step through the process and makes sure everyone has a basic understanding of bread making. Our patrons left the program feeling confident they had the basic knowledge to be able to make the bread on their own. What I appreciate as a program coordinator is that Cherise brings all the supplies necessary to run a successful program!

Those scones were to die for! I talked to my son after school and he was saying how “they were so freaking good, I couldn’t put it down!"

Chef Cherise's All About Bread Q&A was a hit with our patrons! What a great idea to have something so interactive, based on questions from attendees (honestly, who wouldn't want 1:1 advice from a professional chef, especially when it comes to the trickiness of bread-making?)! Many patrons raved afterwards about how educational it was, saying they thoroughly enjoyed her expertise and friendly personality, and they learned a lot, too. Not only about bread, but they enjoyed the format of Zoom as being a way to connect as a community, gaining valuable insight from the answers to everyone else's questions as well!

We hosted Chef Cherise for a virtual presentation of "All About Bread Q&A" at the Carol Stream Public Library. Our patrons loved bringing their baking questions to a live expert, brainstorming flavor combinations together, and chiming in during the demonstration. The video and audio were clear, and recipes were provided ahead of time for us to email to the patrons. I highly recommend this fun, informative presentation!

Chef Cherise presented a virtual presentation, All About Bread Q&A, for our library patrons last week. She demonstrated baking bread from the very beginning (shopping for flours and yeasts) to kneading and proofing all the way to proper bread storage, and everything in between. It was an amazing program that included the Chef’s recipes as well as tips on how to make your bread perfect. The demo was easy to follow and very professionally done, and she fielded questions during and after the demonstration. Chef Cherise is a delight to work with and we’re looking forward to her return.

Chef Cherise has done it again! The Pumpkin Cake Roll class was informative, interactive and lots of fun! Niles Maine District Library patrons love Chef Cherise. Every time she presents, they learn something new. And the food is delicious!

Thanks to Chef Cherise for coming to the Algonquin Area Public Library and sharing the Italian Basics class! Lots of sharing from our patrons, delicious samples and the whole library smelled wonderful!

Today I tried the oatmeal scone and was not at all disappointed...a light texture with a hint of cinnamon. That's what I love about the scones here...there is always a hint of delightful flavor and it's not overwhelming or too sweet. I can tell you from first-hand eating experience that the scones are fabulous...light and "melt-in-your-mouth." I am a lemon lover, and the lemon scones are not to be passed up.

Much to my amazement...my bread turned out delicious last night. I feel like it tasted just like your sample piece. And it was quite tasty this morning toasted. I can't wait to try other bread recipes. Thanks for teaching that in an easy to follow class.

Your class was great, not only are you a great chef/baker, you're a great and patient teacher! Thanks again for sharing your knowledge.

I should have taken this Knife Skills class a long time ago!