Chef at Home is a Canadian cooking series produced by Ocean Entertainment Ltd. that inspires and empowers home cooks to improvise, venture beyond recipes, and learn how to instinctively create flavourful, simple food for family and friends.
The series originally premiered in Canada in October 2004. To date there are 105 episodes in five seasons.
Chef at Home premiered in South Africa on DStv's BBC Food channel on Thursday 20 March 2008, at 18h00. Double half-hour episodes air each week. There are 13 episodes in the first season.
Repeats
Fridays: 06h00, 12h00
Saturdays: 21h30
Sundays: 09h30, 15h30
Synopsis
Chef at Home is a television cooking series that inspires and empowers home cooks to improvise in their kitchens, venture beyond recipes, and instinctively create flavourful, simple food for family and friends.
Chef at Home is about real food and real cooking for real people.
Chef Michael Smith invites you into his home kitchen and shows you how to create uncomplicated, tasty meals for your family and friends. Close your cookbooks, look in the fridge, fire your imagination and let your instincts and appetite be your guide!
In each episode Michael inspires home cooks to create a meal by choosing flavours and ingredients that naturally go together, using basic cooking techniques and sharing insight every step of the way.
Chef at Home gives you the freedom to creatively experiment in your own kitchen and prepare memorable meals for your family and friends.