Lemongrass and Coconut Swai
Mild white fish poached in a fragrant lemongrass-coconut broth, the proof recipe for Ashley's tabular (Michael Chu) format.
🍽 4 servings Dinner
Sharper kitchens, better dishes.
I'm Ashley, a culinary-school-trained recipe developer with twenty years in professional kitchens. I test and write recipes that brands and home cooks can actually trust.
What I do
Honed Kitchens is recipe testing and development first, with new-business consulting and food content work alongside. Twenty years in kitchens taught me the difference between a recipe that works once and a recipe that works every time. I make the second kind.
- Seattle Culinary Academy
- 20 years in professional kitchens
- Diners to fine dining, bakeries to R&D
Services
The core offer
Recipe Testing ★
Rigorous, repeatable testing, so your recipe works in every kitchen, not just the one it was written in.
Learn more →Recipe Development
Original recipes developed to your brief: ingredients, audience, and format included.
Learn more →Consulting & Content
New-business setup, staff training, and systems, plus social content support when you need it.
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Twenty years of plates, boards, bakes, and events...all Ashley's own work.
Working with Ashley on our school meal recipe testing was a fantastic experience! She is super professional, quick to communicate, and gives remarkably useful, honest feedback. She wasn't afraid to tell us what wouldn't work, but she always backed it up with practical changes and suggestions to make the dishes better. Her insights were invaluable to our project!
Ashley is extremely organized and thorough in her work. She's very communicative on expectations and timelines. For the social media component, she was very good at understanding the voice and tone we wanted to achieve and matching that with daily posts. In addition she is technologically savvy and picks up new tasks and systems very quickly. Her documentation is clear and concise. She is well respected and appreciated by the tasting room staff which makes it very simple for her to implement change.
The only improvement: she moved to Montana and I don't like that. Improve that.