Personal Chef, private or commercial, part or full time, events, parties, catering, personal gourmet meal planning, shopping and preparation.


Claudia is a former Zagat-rated restaurant owner with extensive experience as a chef and nutrition consultant. Her dishes are carefully crafted, delicious, nutritious and unique to client’s preferences. Claudia is also a banquet coordinator and experienced restaurant manager with extensive experience in kitchen operations. In addition, Claudia is a talented decorator and professional hostess. Claudia pride’s herself in detail and presentation. Claudia can design menus, manage a staff, and set up for special parties and events. Claudia is trained in proper food handling for both home and commercial. She is fluent in both Spanish and English. Gluten free, Cancer and other therapeutic diets available upon request.

In addition to extensive experience, I have these educational references related to this industry;

CulinAeire, Washington DC, cooking school, 32 credit units. (1987)
Peninsula Hotel of Beverly Hills, private culinary instruction. (1997-2000)
FIDM (Fashion Inst. of Design & Merchandising) A.A. Marketing (1987-1990)
FIDM Manufacturing

References available upon request.

A Sample of Claudia Carbonell’s Specialty Main Dishes-All Gluten Free Upon Request

Meat and Poultry
(Each item is accompanied as desired with salad, vegetables, potatoes, pasta, or rice. A petite soup or consommé, may be added)
-Fillet Mignon au jus or with mushroom-wine sauce
-Prime rib au jus or with bar-be-que sauce
-South American style prime thin cut steak grilled or charbroiled
-Churrasco-Fillet mignon Argentina style
-NY strip steak with orange bourbon glaze
-Brisket in a succulent sauce or grilled
-Lamb chops or rack of lamb au jus or with Portobello mushroom sauce
-T-bone steak grilled or charbroiled
-Roast or rotisserie Cornish-game hen
-Chicken á la Claudia: Breast of chicken prepared in a luscious mushroom and wine sauce with a touch of crème
-Stuffed baked chicken breast with wine sauce, French style
-Chicken stew: Any style, French, Spanish or American style
-Charbroiled or grilled chicken breast with lemon sauce
-Chicken with vegetables
-Chicken pot pie
-Chicken with vegetables Oriental style
-Chicken Marsala
-Chicken with pasta Spanish or Italian style prepared in white-wine sauce or Marinara sauce
-Cut-up chicken in sweet and sour sauce, Oriental style
-Chicken cacciatore, (French Style)
-Chicken Milanese with Salsa Rosa
-Chicken breast parmesano
-Chicken picatta with pasta and mushrooms
-Chicken stuffed with golden onions and fontina
-Spaguetti with chicken breast
-Rotisserie or whole baked chicken
-Rosemary marinated chicken with roasted lemon sauce, capers and herb-potatoes
-Baked turkey
-Turkey pot pie
-Cailles Roties Farcies (Madame Brassart) Cordon Bleu Quail with Port Sauce
-Whole roasted chicken or quail
-Pot Roast Quail or Chicken
-Roasted Beef Wellington (Duke Wellington, recipe, 1769-1852) (Popular dish of the 19th century, featured in many historical banquets)
-Chicken or steak fajitas
-Osso Bucco turkey or beef
-Stuffed meatballs, Polpettone Ripieni

Seafood
-Amazonian seafood wrap in plantain leaves
-Seafood stew Spanish style
-Cioppino
-Seafood casserole Spanish or French style
-Catfish stew Thai style
-Authentic Spanish seafood rice paella

-Seafood pasta in pink, red, or white sauce; any style: Italian, Spanish or French
-Seafood pasta with Hoi sin sauce, Oriental style
-Grilled, charbroiled or broiled fish (any fish) with wine or lemon-caper sauce
-Baked seafood with vegetables, French style
-Fish wrapped in plantain leaves
-Poached or grilled fish with beurre blanc sauce
-Corn crusted sea bass with special asparagus wine sauce
-Smoked salmon with mustard-dill sauce
-Shrimp scampi in lemon and caper sauce
-Lobster or prawns with crawfish sauce
-Steamed Maine live lobster (packed in seaweed salt water and wine)
-Braised white fish with roasted garlic, tomatoes, capers and olives. Served with Japanese noodles
-Szechuan fish
-Fragrant steamed fish
-Spiced broiled fish
-Thai deep fried fish
-Cedar plank salmon
-Tilapia al ajillo
-Maple glazed salmon with pineapple salsa

Rice dishes
-Rice with chicken and vegetables, Colombian style
-Rice with chicken and vegetables, Chinese style
-Rice seafood paella, Spanish style
-Beef or chicken fried rice, Vietnamese style
-Rice paper wraps, Vietnamese style- vegetarian, with seafood or poultry
-Couscous with butternut squash

Pork
-Baked pork loin fillet with a succulent mushroom sauce
-Cut-up pork caramel
-Pork chuleta, Colombian style
-Bar-B-que pork loin
-Pork ribs- grilled, broiled or deep fried

Jewish Dishes
Bean and Vegetable Stew, Crockpot
Biblical Chicken with Honey Nuts and Raisins
Braised Lamb in Pomegranate Sauce
Breast of Veal Stuffed with Mushrooms and Swiss Chard
Brisket with Burgundy Orange Sauce
Lamb Meatballs and Spinach Hammin - meat
Passover Stuffed Boneless Chicken Breast with Apricot Jam
Persian Chicken with Mint, Parsley and Dried Fruit - meat
Roast Chicken with Vegetable Stuffing
Roast Chicken with Vegetable Stuffing
Grandmama's Marinated Herring
Sephardic Beef, Potato and Egg Casserole

Specialty salads
-Salad á la Claudia: Chicken with a delicious mushroom and chardonnay sauce surrounded by mixed greens, shredded carrots, tomatoes and accompanied with arepas
-Salad with chicken and mixed berries
-Garden salad: Green lettuce, tomatoes, beets, carrots and red onions in vinegar and lemon juice
-Cobb salad
-Caesar salad
-Seafood salad
-Three fish salad: Salmon, halibut and swordfish in a succulent chardonnay sauce surrounded by green-leaf lettuce, tomatoes, sautéed corn and red onions
-Mayonnaise chicken salad with mixed greens and seasonal fruits (excellent for tea parties)
-Seasonal fruit salad mixed with yoghurt and cheese
-Potado salad
-Macaroni salad
-Tuna salad

Additional treats
-Tea party menu: Petit sandwiches with fruit salad, potato salad and small soup
-Empanadas, Colombian style: A delicious deep fried starter made all from scratch: white corn dough stuffed with chicken, beef or seafood, a South American favorite!
-Venezuelan or Colombian arepas: Made from scratch with hominy corn stuffed with cheese
-Corn bread
-Zucchini bread
-Flan

Soups
Beef or turkey chili with vegetables
Chicken noodles
Chicken, beef or turkey tortilla
Chinese chicken or fish congee
Corn chowder
Seafood bisque
Creole Bouillabaisse
Seafood Cioppino
Seafood or chicken gumbo
Pureed fish soup
Pureed vegetable soup
Beef or chicken vegetables
Oriental vegetarian delight with tofu
Oxtail and black bean soup with (or without) grilled spiny lobster