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2020 Sessions

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Chef Pearl's Eggs Diablo sess. 1 (2).jpeg

Chef Pearl's Eggs Diablo sess. 1.jpeg

Chef Pearl's Vets Salad with yogurt dressing sess. 2.jpeg

Deidre coring an apple for a smoothie.jpg

Deidre's ingredients for a smoothie and vets salad.jpg

green banana smoothie--healthy and delicious.jpeg

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Joseph Dunphy says Eggs Diablo $18 for ingredients, 4 servings, and quite tasty. Session 1.jpg

Mercedes Eggs Diablo session 1.jpg

Session 2--yogurt lesson.jpeg

Tosin in her kitchen starting to prep her ingredients for a smoothie.jpg

Tosin's smoothie sess. 2.jpg

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Yvonne's smoothie ! Sess. 2.jpg

Yvonne's smoothie before blending ingredients sess. 2.jpg

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Chef Pearl's chick pea salad and garlic string beans sess. 4.jpg

Dawn cutting up garlic for her string beans and chickpea salad sess. 4.jpg

Dawn making garliky string beans sess. 4.jpg

Deidre's herbed potatoes sess. 3.jpg

Deidre's ingredients for herbed potatoes sess. 3.jpg

Deidre's pickled onions sess. 3.jpg

Diane's finished dish-vegetarian chili, pickled onions & herbed potatoes-sess.3.JPG

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Diane's vegetarian chile sess. 3.JPG

Mercedes chickpea salad and string beans.jpg

Violet's herbed potatoes sess. 3.jpg

Violet's vegetarian chili with turkey sess. 3.jpg

Yvonne made the vegetarian chile with pickled onions & avocado & herbed potatoes,.jpg

Yvonne's vegetarian chile with pickled onions, avocado & herbed potatoes.jpg

Chef Pearl prepping a tomato for country braised chicken.jpg

Deidre prepping the asparagus with a bacon wrap for flavor sess. 6.jpg

Deidre's final product--salmon with dill sauce & roasted asparagus sess. 6.jpg

Deidre's salmon & roasted asparagus cooking sess. 6.jpg

Deidre's salmon & roasted asparagus sess. 6.jpg

Diane cooking eggs diablo for the family.jpg

Diane drinking her smoothie!.jpg

Diane's finished product--Salmon with dill sauce and roasted asparagus sess 6.jpg

Bishop loves to make his own smoothies.jpg

Bishop takes his smoothies seriously and measures carefully.jpg

Chef Pearl getting ready to teach vets how to cut up a chicken sess. 5.jpeg

Chef Pearl instructing on cutting up a chicken sess. 5.jpeg

Chef Pearl is a master chef! We are so lucky to have her.jpg

Deidre braising the salmon sess. 6.jpg

Deidre prepping her salmon sess. 6.jpg

Diane's finished country braised chicken with browned broccoli sess.5.JPG

Diane's grandaughter makes dragonfruit, asian pear, mango, pineapple with yogurt, kale & aloe vera juice.jpeg

Diane's grandson Bishop drinking his dragonfruit smoothie!.jpg

finished product of Diane's eggs diablo.jpg

Master Chef Pearl and below-Contanya, Mercedes, Yvonne, Violet.jpg

Violet's roasted asparagus sess. 6.jpg

Violet's salmon with creamy dill sauce sess. 6.jpg

Yvonne & Deidre cooking together.jpg

Yvonne & Deidre's salmon & roasted asparagus.jpg

Chef Pearl cutting up veggies for country braised chicken sess. 5.jpeg

Chef Pearl imparting her pearls of wisdom.jpg

Chef Pearl's country braised chicken cooking sess. 5.jpeg

Chef Pearl's finished dish of country braised chicken & browned broccoli, sess. 5.jpeg

Dawn prepping her country braised chicken and browned broccoli sess (1).jpg

Dawn prepping her country braised chicken and browned broccoli sess (2).jpg

Final product of Violet's country braised chicken & browned broccoli.jpg

stage 3 of cutting up the chicken.jpeg

Violet's country braised chicken cooking sess.5.GIF

Carolyn cooking her vegetarian chili sess. 3.jpg

Carolyn's vegetarian chili sess. 3.jpg

Chef Pearl's eggs diablo recipe sess. 1.jpg

Diane's country braised skillet chicken sess. 5.jpg

Penny's roasted salmon & shrimp with dill sauce, shrimp and roasted asparagus sess. 6.jpg

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Carolyn's Mediteranean Bowl sess. 3.jpg

Chef Pearl's hummus bowl.jpeg

Chef Pearl's Taleggio Pannini sess. 4.jpeg

Diane's granddaughter sampling the pannini sess. 4.jpg

Diane's Quick & Easy Sauce sess.4.jpg

Karen's homemade guacamole sess. 2.jpeg

Kenesah's coleslaw sess. 2.jpg

Kenesah's eggplant dish sess. 4.jpg

Kenesah's eggplant pizza sess. 4.jpg

Kim's Italian Quasadilla sess. 4.JPG

Kim's Mediterranean Bowl, sess. 3.JPG

Kim's quasadilla sess.4.JPG

Sharon & Barbara guacamole, coleslaw & healthy pina colada.jpg

Yvonne and her mediterrean hummus bowl sess. 3.jpg

Yvonne's homemade guacamole, chips & coleslaw sess. 2.jpg

Yvonne's mediterrean hummus bowl.jpg

Ada & her healthy pizza sess. 4.jpg

Ada's healthy pizza sess. 4.jpg

Carolyn's pizza.jpg

Diane's chicken schwarma all ready to eat.jpg

Diane's chicken schwarma.jpg

Diane's grilled chicken & sweet butternut side dish sess. 6.jpg

Diane's honey grilled chicken sess.6.jpg

Kim's arugula grilled peach salad session 6.JPG

Mercedes honey grilled chicken & grilled peach salad.jpg

Natalie's pita pizza.jpg

Yvonne & her pita pizza.jpg

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American Legion Post 171, Fair Lawn, NJ

February 3 to March 9, 2020

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Art Auction

American Legion Post 171, Fairlawn, NJ

November 9, 2019

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2019 Sessions

American Legion Post 65, Metuchen, NJ

September 18 to October 23, 2019

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American Legion Post 171, Fair Lawn, NJ

February 25 to April 1, 2019

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2018 Sessions

Elks Lodge 2457, New Egypt, NJ

September 10 to October 22, 2018

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East Orange Veterans Hospital, East Orange, NJ

August 2 to 23, 2018

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Rutgers Veteran House, New Brunswick, NJ

April 17 to May 3, 2018

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American Legion Post 65, Metuchen, NJ

March 7 to April 11, 2018

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East Orange Veterans Hospital, East Orange, NJ

March 29 to April 6, 2018

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2017 Sessions

VFW Post 2867, Garfield, NJ

October 11 to November 15, 2017

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East Orange Veterans Hospital, East Orange, NJ

July 13 to 28, 2017

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280 S. Harrison St., East Orange, NJ

April 5 to May 10, 2017

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East Orange Veterans Hospital, East Orange, NJ

February 9 to February 24, 2017

2016 Sessions

VFW Post 2867, Garfield, NJ

October 3 to November 7, 2016

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East Orange Veterans Hospital, East Orange, NJ

August 8 to August 26, 2016

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Elks Lodge #1456, Weehawken, NJ

January 7 to February 11, 2016

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2015 Sessions

Elks Lodge #2457, New Egypt, NJ

October 26 to November 7, 2015

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