• Level: level 3 sous 3 Sous Chef

      Between Spice and Silence

      When the chicken touched the pan, the butter whispered its secrets into the meat, sealing them in with golden certainty. I had let the breast rest for a while in its marinade, and now, under the heat, it surrendered… firm and tender at the same time, carrying both strength and fragility.

      Beside it, the sweet potato transformed, its soft body merging with cheese, becoming something in-between root and comfort. I topped it with red beans, dusted in Texas spices, as if the desert winds themselves had seasoned them. A spoonful of their sauce, deep and earthy, trailed across the plate like a story leaving its ink.

      Pumpkin seeds offered their crunch, a reminder that nothing is ever fully soft, while a few leaves of arugula stretched upward, still alive, still wild. The plate became a meeting place… fire and soil, tenderness and resistance, the echo of the faraway and the intimacy of the home kitchen.

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      Lana Mihajlović, Fabrizio Vindigni and 7 others
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      • Level: level 4 executive chef 2 Executive Chef

        Simple and delicious

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        Translated from Spanish
        a year ago
      • Great cookery, plating, and photography Lana!

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      • Lana, this is gorgeous—and also making me hungry. That buttery chicken sounds like it hit the pan with purpose, and the sweet potato-cheese-red bean combo? Total comfort vibes. Love the crunch from the pumpkin seeds too. You’ve got a way of making food feel like a story without trying too hard. Would happily sit down with that plate any day.

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      • Level: level 4 executive chef 2 Executive Chef

        Amiga… you are on fire (I just used a Spanish phrase, which I don’t know if it will be well translated 🤣…. Just in case it’s not, it comes to mean that lately you are super inspired and you are giving us great dishes)

        I don’t know what I like more, if that chicken breast, so well sectioned and with that appetizing aspect; the sauce, with such a bright color, that seems to scream “dip some bread”; the sweet potato; the beans; the arugula, that you know I love; or those pumpkin seeds… that are screaming at me to go get them one by one with my fingers 😅

        Great job!!!!

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        Translated from Spanish
        a year ago
        • Level: level 3 sous 3 Sous Chef

          @beatriztorijagmail-com Amiga mía 😍 muchas gracias!! If I’m “on fire,” it’s only because of friends like you cheering me on. 🔥 You just made me smile with that description. I can totally imagine you stealing those pumpkin seeds one by one 😂. And yes, the sauce was exactly that kind of “dip some bread” temptation (I may or may not have done it already 🙈). I’m so glad you noticed every little detail, it means a lot! 🥰

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        • Level: favicon spaced Scoolinary Team

          Stunning plating and storytelling. You are pure rock & roll dear.

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