Charchelly’s Kitchen

10/11/2026

🍋🍝 FROM Charchelly’s Culinary Academy: LEMON CREAM CAPER GNOCCHI! 👨‍🍳💚

Who says restaurant-quality meals can’t be made right at home? 😍

Here at Charchelly’s Culinary Academy, we’re all about turning simple ingredients into something extraordinary! This Lemon Cream Caper Gnocchi features pillowy gnocchi tossed in a silky lemon cream sauce with Parmesan cheese, briny capers, fresh herbs, and perfectly sautéed asparagus. Fresh, flavorful, and full of character! 🤤

But at Charchelly’s Culinary Academy , it’s about more than what’s on the plate. It’s about learning real culinary techniques, building confidence in the kitchen, exploring new flavors, and discovering that cooking can be both FUN and delicious!

✨ Restaurant-inspired dishes
🍋 Fresh ingredients and bold flavors
👩‍🍳 Hands-on culinary learning
🍝 Real skills you can recreate at home

Our mission is simple: Good food builds confidence! We want our students to leave the kitchen with more than a full stomach. We want them to leave with skills, creativity, and the confidence to try something new.

And this dish? It’s proof that a few simple ingredients can create BIG flavor! 💚

📍 Charchelly’s Culinary Academy
👨‍🍳 Chef Charles & Chef Michelle Barr

Follow our culinary journey as we continue building skills, creating memories, and bringing our village together through food!

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09/27/2026

09/27/2026

Fall off the bone Oxtails!
Place your orders now. Only excepting pre orders for Fridays only.
2 sides: rice and peas/ cabbage

09/25/2026

🍂 What is comfort food for you? 🍂

Now that it’s sweater weather, it’s officially soup, sweet potato pie, and cozy kitchen season! 🥣🥧❤️ There’s just something about a warm bowl of soup simmering on the stove and the smell of sweet potato pie filling the house.

The kitchen is where I’ll be. What’s cooking in your kitchen this season? 👀🍴

09/15/2026

👩🏾‍🍳 MEET CHEF MICHELLE & CHEF CHARLES! 👨🏾‍🍳
The husband-and-wife team behind Charchelly’s Culinary Academy!

We’re Chef Michelle and Chef Charles Barr, and we created Charchelly’s Culinary Academy because we believe learning to cook should be about so much more than simply following a recipe.

We’re real cooks and chefs who love sharing our knowledge, encouraging creativity, and helping students discover that they CAN be confident in the kitchen! ❤️

🍴 WELCOME TO CHARCHELLY’S CULINARY ACADEMY!

Our Private Cooking Lessons are designed to be hands-on, chef-inspired, educational, and a WHOLE LOT OF FUN!

✨ 2-hour private cooking class
💰 $95 per class
👩🏾‍🍳👨🏾‍🍳 Learn directly from real chefs & cooks
🔪 Develop knife skills & kitchen safety
🍳 Learn real cooking techniques
🎨 Explore creativity & your own cooking style
💪🏾 Build confidence and independence
🍽️ Prepare delicious, chef-inspired dishes
🎉 Learn through hands-on activities, laughter, and FUN!

Whether you’re brand new to cooking or want to sharpen your skills, our goal is to create an environment where you can learn without fear, get creative, make mistakes, try again, and celebrate what you create!

Because we don’t just want you to learn HOW to cook.

We want you to understand WHY you cook, HOW to use your skills, and BELIEVE that you can do it!

📍 SERVING THE WEST VALLEY:
Surprise • Goodyear • El Mirage • Buckeye • Litchfield Park

At Charchelly’s, education and fun go hand in hand! We bring the kitchen to life through real-world culinary skills, creativity, encouragement, and plenty of hands-on learning.

❤️ Real Chefs. Real Skills. Real Confidence.
🍴 Cook • Learn • Create.

📩 Ready to get cooking? Send us a message to book your private lesson!

09/11/2026

The face you make when your student cooks a meal for their parent for the very first time. 🥹❤️

It’s about so much more than preparing a meal—it’s about watching confidence take root, seeing independence grow, and witnessing the pride that comes from realizing, “I can do this!”

We give our students the tools, skills, and encouragement to create in the kitchen—and then we get to watch them turn those skills into something meaningful for the people they love.

Because cooking is more than following a recipe. It’s confidence. It’s creativity. It’s life skills. It’s connection. 👩🏽‍🍳👨🏽‍🍳✨

09/07/2026

FYI we will be selling fried Cajun Turkeys this year. Reservation open up October 1st. Limited availability

09/07/2026

08/24/2026

🔥🚨 ONLY 3 SPOTS LEFT — DON’T WAIT! 🚨🔥

Your child can learn to COOK, CREATE & BUILD REAL KITCHEN SKILLS — and we bring the cooking lesson RIGHT TO YOUR DOOR! 🏡👩🏽‍🍳

✨ Charchelly’s Culinary Academy — Mobile Private Cooking Lessons ✨

This is more than a cooking class that simply follows recipes. Students receive a real culinary education from professional chefs while gaining hands-on experience and learning skills they can use for a lifetime:

🔪 Knife skills & kitchen safety
🍳 Cooking techniques & methods
🌿 Flavor building & seasoning
🥘 Preparing meals from scratch
🍽️ Plating & presentation
🧠 Meal planning & kitchen confidence
💪🏽 Independence & life skills
❤️ Confidence, creativity & FUN!

🎉 AUGUST SPECIAL — $80/SESSION

Starting September 1:
💰 $95/session
📌 Minimum of 2 sessions

⏰ CURRENTLY AVAILABLE TIME SLOTS:
🕛 12 PM–2 PM
🕒 3 PM–5 PM

🔥 ONLY 3 SPOTS AVAILABLE!

Once these spots are gone, they’re GONE!

And YES — ALL MATERIALS ARE INCLUDED! 🙌🏽

📍 Mobile lessons — we come to you!

Need a different day or a later time? Message us anyway! We may be able to work something out.

🚨 DON’T SAY “I’LL SIGN UP LATER” AND MISS YOUR SPOT.

📩 SEND US A MESSAGE TODAY WITH “COOK” TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT!

✨ More than a cooking class. It’s a real culinary education taught by chefs.

Cook • Learn • Create • Build Confidence • Create Memories

08/17/2026

🌴 Today’s St. Thomas food fact: Johnny cakes aren’t cakes in the traditional sense!

These slightly sweet pieces of deep-fried dough are a favorite throughout the U.S. Virgin Islands—especially when served fresh and warm alongside a flavorful island meal.

At Charchelly’s, we believe food is one of the sweetest ways to connect generations and preserve community traditions.

How would you enjoy yours: plain, with butter or beside fried fish? Tell us below! 👇🏾