Recipes from the Pros Who Know

One of our goals at Designing Your Midlife is to share information & inspiration from pros who know – the ones who have dedicated their lives to learning the skills in their field and graciously share them with us. Here are our recipes from the pros who know.

You probably know that we are inspired by the idea of Micro Mastery. The book by Robert Twigger was the first spark.

Learn small, learn fast, and unlock your potential to achieve anything.

Combining positive psychology, neuroscience, self-help and more, the book encourages us to circumvent all the reasons we “can’t” learn and grow (we’re too busy, it’s too complicated, we’re not experts, we didn’t start when we were young) by tackling small, satisfying skills.

These small, doable tasks offer a big payoff and motivate us to keep learning and growing. Payoffs include a boost in optimism, confidence, memory, cognitive skills, and more.

That’s why we share recipes and cooking tips & tricks from the pros who know. We share their “entry secret” that helps you improve your cooking. Then you can impress your crowd – without years of training.

Recipes by the Pros Who Know

Michael Chiarello Recipes

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Celebrity chef Michael Chiarello specializes in Italian-influenced California cuisine, and shares basic at-home cooking tips, like moist juicy turkey dinner with flavorful gravy. See his easy entertaining and seasonal recipes.

Bobby Flay Recipes

Bobby Flay is a celebrity chef, restaurateur, and reality television personality. He is the owner and executive chef of several restaurants across the US focusing on breakfast & brunch menus, BBQ menus such as steak, burgers, fries & shakes, all the way to gourmet food. Bobby Flay recipes are uniquely created to make them easy to reproduce at home in your own kitchen or on the barbecue in your own backyard.

Chris Lilly Recipes

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He won 15 World BBQ Championships and four Memphis in May Grand Championships, is widely recognized for his expertise in Alabama white sauce, and as a competitor/mentor on Season 1 of Food Network’s BBQ Brawl.

He shares his secrets so you can achieve competition-level BBQ at home, including how to create a two-zone fire in your home barbecue. He shares an at-home version of his award-winning recipes that will impress your BBQ cookout guests. His videos show step-by-step how to barbecue at home with professional results.

Joel Marion Recipes

Joel Marion, CISSN, NSCA-CPT, is a sports nutritionist, five-time best-selling e-book author and co-founder of the e-commerce supplement company BioTrust Nutrition. We share his recipes from his diet book Always Eat After 7 PM. His simple, highly effective weight loss program allows readers to enjoy social dinners without restriction, satisfy nighttime hunger with fat-burning sweet and salty pre-bedtime snacks and indulge cravings with strategically timed cheat meals.

Roger Mooking Recipes