The Recipe Hunt Adventure – Chef Jean-Pierre – YouTube Channels For Foodies

Cooking needs to be fun and done with passion. If it’s not fun and done with passion then the food won’t be tasty. Food that isn’t tasty is rarely fun. Looking for brilliant recipes to cook is very often where the fun begins – the recipe hunt. It’s Sunday morning and our significant other(s) have delegated us as today’s cook, we’ve decided it’s going to be spaghetti meatballs. We’ve cooked this dish countless times but this morning we’re looking for a new twist on our usual go-to recipe.

We’ve all got those loved and trusted cookbooks, the ones that naturally fall open on the pages of our family favourite recipes when rested on their spines, the more antiquated variety containing scribbles from previous generations, and many having color-coded component splatters of the said recipe on the oft-opened pages. These books are certainly fun, are nostalgic, and beautifully provide reliably tasty recipes without much time expended on the actual hunt for them as they are literally within arm’s reach. However, all of our go-to books do tend to have a naturally-opening-tendency on the recipes we’ve most frequented, today we’re looking for a new twist. Rather than reaching upwards to the bookshelf, we reach down to our connected device of choice. We begin with the ubiquitous google search: “authentic spaghetti meatball recipe”. Our initially good intentions for razor-like focus are displayed by the speech marking of our descriptor. Within less than ten minutes we’re utterly engrossed with Anthony Bourdain talking about jiu-jitsu, zero spaghetti meatballs happening in this Bourdain episode but, it’s oh so joyous to watch. An hour later (yup, we watched another Bourdain episode) and we’re watching a video of an amazingly talented Italian grandmother making her family’s famous tomato puree whilst surrounded by goats in the Italian alps. Our significant others are now, one by one, poking their heads around the door and asking “when will lunch be ready?”. We rapidly refocus, refresh google and start again.

You see, our trusted cookbooks are a thing of utter delight in their tactility and nostalgia, coupled with their literal ease of reach/speed of recipe delivery/reliably tasty outcome but, they’re a path that’s been frequently trodden. Sometimes, we’re looking for a bit of an adventure when seeking out that new recipe. The rabbit hole that the internet can so often be is indeed a total adventure but often doesn’t quite deliver that recipe we set off to initially find due to our polymath tendencies taking us somewhat off-piste. What’s needed for the most successful recipe hunt adventure is something in between – a recipe resource that has the adventure and entertainment elements of going down the digital rabbit hole but yet is also reliable in the tastiness of the eventual recipe, and delivers it to us in a time-efficient manner the way that our treasured cookbooks do.

In Fort Lauderdale, USA, there resides a French man with a cooking pedigree up there with the very best. This individual has combined his culinary excellence with a snazzy digital platform to create the perfect destination for those looking for fun, adventure, speed, and a plethora of yumminess from their recipe hunt. The man’s name is, Chef Jean-Pierre.

Chef Jean-Pierre (always cooking from his home kitchen) beautifully and passionately presents an exceptional array of classic dishes for us to take away and cook. His recipes are clearly all derived from his years of culinary experience, each delivered with a delightful quirkiness, humour, tips & tricks, and wisdom – every viewing session is a unique recipe adventure. The depth of content is vast, there aren’t many classic dishes that he’s not covered. New dishes appear weekly, all delivered with impressive consistency. From beef wellington to tarte-tatin, carbonara to duck confit, caesar salad to spaghetti meatballs, Chef Jean-Pierre has it covered, and then some.

His recipe performances will make you laugh, make you think, make you rethink, and will make you genuinely feel that you can actually replicate the recipe in question. There are many YouTube food creators that demonstrate the most amazing of dishes but can often leave you feeling less than confident about recreating them. Not this chef, non, non. His content gives you the confidence that would surely come from having your own private tutorial, making you even more excited and bullish about the prospect of cooking the recipe than you were before you set off on your Sunday morning recipe hunt.

It comes as no surprise that he’s run a highly successful cooking school, his prowess in this field is beautifully and authentically translated into this YouTube channel. A very good indicator of exceptional quality YouTube content is when it makes you feel that you really should be paying for it. Watching chef Jean-Pierre makes you feel like you’ve naughtily snuck into one of his cooking classes without paying the entrance fee. 

Another indication of discovering food-content gold is when it causes a U-turn in your cooking technique. His videos have done this with my pastry making, roasting, stock making, and with how I now cook multiple recipes such as beef bourguignon, duck confit, meatloaf, and even the supposedly simpler ones such as garlic bread and croque monsieur.

For Sunday mornings full of food adventure, and afternoons full of the tastiest and most enjoyable meals, whilst circumnavigating the “what time is lunch?” chorus, Chef Jean-Pierre’s channel is definitely a neat addition to our digital recipe adventure book collection.

Chef Jean-Pierre’s YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/chefjeanpierre

His spaghetti meatball recipe video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu3k-bEcuBA

…Enjoy!