With 2,500 members, Chevy Chase Club’s Executive Pastry Chef, Elena Clement, relies on dessert components that stand the test of time and can be used in a multitude of ways. Chocolate!! It’s easily one of my favorite ingredients and as the Executive Pastry Chef of Chevy Chase (Md.) Club, I use a lot of chocolate.…
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Elena Clement, CEPC®, AAC®
As the former Executive Pastry Chef of Chevy Chase (Md.) Club, Elena was constantly challenging herself to create new and exciting desserts and pastry products for the club’s more than 2,500 members. Prior to Chevy Chase, she was both a culinary educator and consultant.
How to Help Members Keep their New Year’s Resolutions
Elena Clement, Executive Pastry Chef of Chevy Chase (Md.) Club offers practical ways to not only satisfy members, but to help them keep their new year’s resolutions, too. We are well into 2017 by now. How many of you have stuck to your new year’s resolutions? I am making a concerted effort to stick to…
Chevy Chase Club’s Housemade Granola
Chevy Chase’s Housemade Granola Recipe by Elena Clement, Executive Pastry Chef, Chevy Chase (Md.) Club Yield: 1.5 gallons Ingredients: 10 cups oatmeal, old-fashioned 2 cups pumpkin seeds, raw, hulled, unsalted 2 cups sunflower seeds, raw, hulled, unsalted 2 cups sesame seeds 1.5 cups maple syrup, grade b preferred 1 cup extra virgin olive oil 1…
Managing Chef Stress During the Holidays
For Elena Clement, Executive Pastry Chef of Chevy Chase (Md.) Club, prep lists and self-care are critical to success. Christmas is behind us. And New Year’s Eve is fast approaching. We’re all super busy, working crazy hours. So how do you keep your head on straight? With so many parties over the past few months,…
Rosemary Pecan Brittle
Recipe by Elena Clement, Executive Pastry Chef, Chevy Chase (Md.) Club Ingredients: 1 # granulated sugar 1 cup corn syrup 1 cup water 2 cups toasted, warm pecan pieces 1 ½ teaspoon sea salt 2 tablespoons Villa Manodori Extra Virgin Olive oil with Rosemary 1 teaspoon baking soda – dissolved in 1 tablespoon water 1…
My Favorite Food Memory from Thanksgiving
For Chevy Chase Club’s Executive Pastry Chef, nostalgic, family recipes can help set the holiday mood. Thanksgiving is just a few days away. Can you believe it? What a busy, exciting year! As the Executive Pastry Chef of Chevy Chase (Md.) Club, it’s not often that I—or any club chefs, really—get to spend a lot…
Three Advantages of a Full-Time Pastry Department
House-made pastries are undeniably seductive and for Chevy Chase Club these items bring that “special something” to the table and the operation. For as long as I can remember, I’ve always liked to feed people. Food makes people happy. It’s a commonality we all share—especially in country clubs where dining is often the one thing…
My Sweet New Life as Executive Pastry Chef of Chevy Chase Club
Elena Clement, CEPC, AAC didn’t plan on taking an industry job, but the challenges and opportunities with the position of Executive Pastry Chef at Chevy Chase (Md.) Club were too exciting to pass up. Humoring my chef friend, Scott Craig, I agreed to visit him at Chevy (Md.) Chase Club where he has been the…