Celebrity Chef Susan Irby shares her culinary world, recipes, bikini cooking tips, radio interviews with chefs and her healthy bikini bites lifestyle daily.

How To Avoid Book Butt

How To Avoid Book Butt If you follow The Bikini Chef (that's me) even just a little bit, you know I am constantly writing books, recipes, scripts for Bikini Lifestyles TV and radio, articles for publications, working on the website and a host of other tasks.  Writing is a wonderful occupation, but as with any occupation, it comes with occupational hazards.  One of the key occupational hazards to writing or to any … [Read more...]

Santa Fe Verde Sauce from Fortun Foods

Count on Fortun Foods for Excellent Quality and Service

If you haven't heard, Fortun Foods is known for their incredibly delicious #SOBikini sauces.   Check out this commercial for Fortun's Finishing Touch Sauces    Santa Fe Verde Sauce.   As The Bikini Chef, the most important ingredients I look for in my foods are FRESH!  I do my best to stay away from foods that are high in preservatives and that includes most packaged foods.  I fell in LOVE when I found Fortun … [Read more...]

The #SOBikini Brazil Butt Challenge

The #SOBikini Brazil Butt Lift Challenge

The #SOBikini Brazil Butt Lift Challenge Susan Irby The Bikini Chef (@thebikinichef) and Jamila Williams (@seattleworksout) have teamed up to bring you the hottest "get ready for swimsuit season" challenge ever! Want to get into the best shape of your life? PREMIERE FITNESS + PREMIUM NUTRITION + PEER SUPPORT = SUCCESS TEAM GALAXY is starting  the Brazil Butt Lift Beachbody(TM) Challenge group!  It's a 60-day … [Read more...]

The Flip Truck

The Flip Truck

The Flip Truck is participating in the Farm to Food Truck Challenge II tomorrow from 11:30am till 1:30pm at the SoCo's Farmer's Market in Costa Mesa. Chef Heidi from The Flip Truck wanted to share a few words with everyone about tomorrow's event: "Getting ready for tomorrow's "Farm-To-Food Truck" Challenge #2!  My previous Chef/Instructor, Laurent Brazier will be one of the judges, so I've got to show him what his … [Read more...]

Palmilla Cocina y Tequila

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Palmilla Cocina y Tequila, a new modern Mexican restaurant and lounge, is opening in the heart of Hermosa Beach on November 8th! The latest concept from Greg and Ron Newman, Palmilla elevates the South Bay dining scene with regionally influenced contemporary Mexican cuisine, and extensive premium tequila list, hand-shaken cocktails and an upscale vibe.  After a long running success of their restaurants Baja Sharkeez, … [Read more...]

Healthy Halloween

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This year, try to make your Halloween a healthy one! We all know the holiday weight starts with this October holiday. If you eat candy on Halloween... then you will over eat for Thanksgiving... then you will enjoy all the Christmas cookies... and then New Years comes and your outfit doesn't seem to fit anymore. Let's avoid all this and start with a Healthy Halloween! Here are some tips for this year and years to … [Read more...]

Farm to Food Truck Challenge 2

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Just announced... Judges: Chef Laurant from Laguna Culinary Arts Chef Bridget from Fixtures Living Gustavo Arellano from OC Weekly's Stick a Fork in It Micheal Harris from Mesa, Detroit Bar Competition winner, to be announced Food Drive: Collect cans of food, and donations to purchase farm fresh produce from our farmers, to be donated to Costa Mesa families for the … [Read more...]

GAMAY MEETS GRAFFITI

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As part of the national celebration Nouveau Expression, French Beaujolais winemaker and longtime arts supporter Georges Duboeuf is bringing a party of the senses to Los Angeles at a Nouveau Expression food and wine tasting on November 18, 2011, at the Beverly Hills Country Club, from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. Presented by Georges Duboeuf, Club Culinaire of French Cuisine and Passions Productions, the party, titled … [Read more...]

Patina’s Wine Series

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Patina, the esteemed Relais & Châteaux property and flagship of Joachim Splichal’s Patina Restaurant Group located at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Downtown Los Angeles, continues its Wine Series in November 2011 with a Calera wine dinner on November 10 ($145 per person, including wine pairings, tax, and gratuity). Winery Owner Josh Jensen will be in attendance, providing guests with firsthand insight into … [Read more...]

Top 3 Foods and Why

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If I had to pick one favorite food, it would be impossible.  In celebration of NATIONAL FOOD DAY, here are my top 3 picks and why:   Number 1:  APPLES    But not just any apples.   Part of enjoying and feeling satisfied about the foods you eat is related to texture.  Eating involves all the senses... touch, taste, smell, vision, and sound.  Apples provide a sweet smell, crisp crunch, they look visually … [Read more...]