Houston PROFILE Magazine | Fall 2015

P

rofile

Houston PROFILE Magazine pg. 1

Fall 2015 An HPT Media Publication

CHEF GABRIEL Is Your Cuisine Chef

Magazine

REAL ESTATE NON-PROFITS PEOPLE

Also in This Issue: KIM ROXIE’S ULTIMATE BABY SHOWER SNACK OF THE YEAR

Houston PROFILE Magazine pg. 2

Houston PROFILE Magazine | Spring 2015 2

Houston PROFILE Magazine pg. 3

contents

Fall 2015 What’s Inside

p.12 p.14 p.10 p.6 MUSEUM DISTRICT - NOW OPEN 1801 BINZ ST. SUITE 110 Call at 713-874-1454

LUNCH & DINNER SERVED EVERYDAY 11AM-10PM

BREAKFAST SERVED SAT & SUN 8AM-11AM

Editing – Content and Graphic: Rebecca Walton | Photography by Rebecca Walton | Photo Credits given to : Google Stock Images, Stocksy.com, Respective Owners of Photos | Letters and Comments: info@hptmedia.com | Twitter: www.twitter.com/HPTMedia | Facebook: www.facebook.com/HPTMedia Advertising: 713.878.7882 | Want to write for us? Send a 300 word article to editorial@hptmedia.com. All submissions will be edited according to AP Handbook standards. Not all articles will be chosen. Payment is issued after magazine is published.

Houston PROFILE Magazine pg. 4

͂ Editor’s Note ͂ Rebecca Walton Editor of Houston PROFILE Magazine

Houston PROFILE Magazine pg. 5

Snack of the Year I love these so much, “ I'm giving away free boxes.

Rebecca Walton Editor of Houston Profile Magazine

“I’m on the go all the time. Without fail, I keep bars of these stuffed in my purse because I never know when I’m going to be hit with a craving for something sweet and chewy. These simply fit chewy snack bars please my taste-buds each and every time I bite down into the chocolate-ty whole grain granola mix. My mouth waters just thinking about it. Best of all they are healthy and organic addition to my daily calorie count.”

– Rebecca Walton

Houston PROFILE Magazine pg. 6

Gabriel McKnight Is Your Cuisine Chef By: Rebecca Walton

Photography by: Rebecca Walton

C

hef Gabriel is a Christian, husband, father and Your Cuisine Chef. A food connoisseur and restaurant professional for many years, Chef Gabriel is privileged to make a living off his passion. As lead chef at Houston Christian High School, Chef Gabriel balances his time between running the school kitchen and managing his own business – Your Cuisine Chef.

Currently his services are traded online where Chef Gabriel can cater your event or he can be retained as a personal chef. His clients include professional athletes, community church members and people who want tailored meal plans optimized to meet their specific needs.

Chef Gabriel believes in meal planning that fits to your lifestyle. Whether you are on the go or paced to a nondemanding schedule, Chef Gabriel can prepare packaged cuisine healthy meals to freshly prepared meals for your kitchen table.

To learn more about Your Cuisine Chef log onto www.yourcuisinechef.com

www.YourCuisineChef.com Sales@yourcuisinechef.com (832) 257-6694

Houston PROFILE Magazine pg. 7

​Ingredients Marinade Fresh Basil - 6 leaves chopped Fresh garlic Minced - 1 teaspoon Lemon Zest - 1 lemon Juice Form Lemon - 1 lemon Olive Oil - 1/2 cup Red Wine Vinegar - 1/4 cup Boneless Organic Pork Chops - 2 (6-8oz.)

Raw Sugar - 1/2 tea Tuscan Butter Dried Basil – 1 teaspoon Dried Mediterranean Oregano – 1teaspoon .

Fennel Seeds – 1teaspoon Minced Garlic – 1teaspoon Fresh Thyme – 1tablespoon Crushed Red Peppers – 1/2 teaspoon Salted European Butter – 4tsblespoons

​Process ​ 1. Mix all marinade ingredients together in a container and add pork. Cover tightly and marinate for a min 18hours.

2. Make Tuscan butter blend. Soften butter and mix in all ingredients. While scoop out ball and place on parchment paper. Reserve until needed.

3. Remove pork form marinade and pat dry. Season with salt and pepper.

4. Sear in cast iron skillet with clarified butter and olive oil. Cook each side for three minutes each side.

Internal temp should reach minimum 155 degrees.

5. Top with Tuscan butter.

Chef Notes If you are looking for some side ideas we recommend a pasta with a light cream and tomatoes sauce. For your vegetable try sautéed rainbow kale. Simple sauté in garlic oil, season with salt and pepper and sprinkle with a little organic apple cider vinegar. Enjoy!

Chef Gabriel H. McKnight All Rights Reserved

Houston PROFILE Magazine pg. 8

Fall 2015 As a magazine for the people, Houston PROFILE Magazine is campaigning for three underlining elements of humanity. HPM is the human interest perspective of business.

Most would agree that capital and partnership is the driving force behind commerce, but we at HPM say it is eating, living and loving.

As we chronicle the business dealings of non-profits, real estate and people of Houston TX, we like to celebrate the epitome of Eat, Live, Love seen within their self and their respective businesses. Join the conversation with us and shout out the business or person you know who epitomizes one or all three elements. This Fall season the element of Live is heard very loudly from one, Charles Sapp. Take a moment and read about how he lives in business.

- Staff at Houston PROFILE Magazine

LIVE Charles Sapp: A Man Seeking Balance

Houston PROFILE Magazine pg. 9

By: Rebecca Walton

Photography by: Rebecca Walton

Photography by: Rebecca Walton

A

man seeking balance is a man like Charles Sapp. That maybe a bit poetic and “...okay.” but, have you tried to encompass the true principle of a person apart from spoken word? Well, consider yourself deep and call Charles Sapp, “Typified life.” Two snaps. Because like everyone, he’s living it. Unlike most it’s on his own terms. He talks on a 10 year old flip phone and rarely logs on to social media.

Charles subscribes to very few vices of men. He’s been around the block more times that many, yet he sees things as fresh as a first grader on the first day of school.

(as he would say); all the while striving to maintain balance. From playing division one college ball, to building a successful fitness and personal training business, to organizing Fit Beat, a 501© organization that focuses on children, dancing and being a positive role model.

Some may wonder, why the focus on children? Charles took a cue from Frederick Douglas and ran with it. He quotes, “It’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” It seems as though Charles is in tune with the reality of his world. He understands his own frailty and others’ like his, which is why he is constantly seeking balance. Yet it is inconsequential. In spite of what he can’t do he chooses to focus on building a stronger generation that may one day achieve a balance unlike which he will most likely not get to experience. What a man of honor!

He’s a personified casual encounter; pleasant to the experience. He smiles at everyone whether in passing at the park, or within a polite interruption of a conversation. He’s very kind; and it is through this kindness he lives. In service to children he teaches them how to dance. To the rest of us he’s busy mapping out exercise plans.

The way he thinks is much like the way he dances. Charles explains things with He’s a typified visual artist living everyday whimsical ease. Much to your surprise free and unplugged – one of a kind. Not you are charmed by his practical acro-permany are privileged to live out their artis- spective. Like a nice stretch before a deep tic vision through charity and business. In breath, you feel real good after speaking his young life he’s managed to transition with Charles. When he makes plain his successfully from one mission to the next resolve you say, “I knew that, but I like the

way you spin it.” His viewpoint is fresh –(to def) with a universal wisdom and practicality that is often overlooked by his generation of adults. It’s a wonder why this kind of knowledge rests in the comfort zone of children. Charles says, “Young people see me and they think I’m much younger than I am. So they listen to me. A young person will think along the lines of, “This old person’s ideals don’t match my reality.” They don’t know how much they don’t know. Little kids don’t even know the A-B-C song like we knew it.

There is so much to teach them.”

What does the future hold for this single black man with no children of his own?

Whatever it may be, one things for sure, it’s him. Charles has plateau-ed into a life of service, insight and love; which allows a very wide net to be cast. Anything is possible for this break-dancing poetic lover of health and children. His legacy is being built one day at a time “positively affecting generations to come, even though they won’t know [his] name.”— Charles Sapp.

To learn more about how you can help build Fit Beat email Charles at csapp41@hotmail.com.

Houston PROFILE Magazine pg. 10

Jimmese Glover is serving the City of Houston through Prestige Affairs Catering

Photography Credit: Jimmese Glover / Facebook

Photography Credit: Jimmese Glover / Facebook

Houston PROFILE Magazine pg. 11

Compliments of Pac Ceviche 1 Finely Chopped Red Bell Pepper 1 Finely Chopped Yellow Bell Pepper 3 Chopped Seeded Tomato 1 Chopped Red Onion 1 Serrano Pepper Minced 1 lb Shrimp 1 lb Imitation Crab Meat Crumbled ¼ cup Finely Cilantro 1 cup Orange Juice ¼ cup Lime Juice ¼ cup Lemon Juice 1 teaspoon Cumin Sea Salt and Pepper to taste Mix all ingredients together and chill.

Serve with chips or toasted baguettes!

Photography Credit: Jimmese Glover

9 Inch Sausage and Shrimp Potato Pizza 3 Medium Red Potatoes ½ Cup Sliced Onion ½ Cup Slice Green Bell Peppers ½ Cup Slice Red Bell Peppers 1 lb Large Shrimp 1 Cup Sliced Smoked Sausage (Turkey, Pork, Chicken or Beef You Decide) 1 Cup of Shredded Colby Jack Cheese (Can use any cheese you like) ½ Cup Dice Tomatoes Olive Oil Badia Complete Seasoning Old Bay Blackening Seasoning Sea Salt

Photography Credit: Jimmese Glover

Wash potatoes well then slice into oval slices and wash again. Pat dry then coat with olive oil and season with Sea Salt to taste. Place in the over at 375 degrees. Back until potatoes are soft!

Sautee Shrimp and Chicken together seasoned to taste with the Old Bay Blackening and Badia Completing seasoning. Once they are done add in Onion and Peppers and sauté until veggies are soft but still firm. Set aside.

Once Potatoes are done layer with ½ cup of cheese first. Then layer with meat and veggie mixture and add the rest of the cheese to the top and top with tomatoes.

Place pizza back into the oven and back at 375 for 20 minutes!

Houston PROFILE Magazine pg. 12

www.Couch2Kitchen.com

Photography Credit: Couch2Kitchen.com

Houston PROFILE Magazine pg. 13

Tomorrow’s Food Enterprise Looks Like…

Investors You have found your Bank Roll The first all-in-one kids healthy cooking solution officially launched today! This all-in-one online resource provides both picky and overeaters with the nutritional nudge they need. Couch 2 Kitchen was created by a group of diligent kidpreneurs, which are a fierce foursome from Missouri City, Texas. They just happen to be brothers and sisters. These are four pint-sized kidpreneurs with giant-sized dreams.

Couch2Kitchen is a kid-centered, fun and educational cooking program that encourages kids to get off the couch and into the kitchen by cooking from the colors of the rainbow. To realize growth and reach future users, the kid creators have chosen crowd funding as a platform to get the word out and are intrigued by this medium.

The crowd funding process will allow the young culinary creators to see users’ reactions and help facilitate societal involvement. Crowd funding is a fantastic and relatively new way of gaining exposure but this tiny team is positive that this will be the key to their success. The goal of this campaign is to reach those who share the vision of seeing more kids in the kitchen.

The Couch2Kitchen team wants to share ideas and create a community of like-minded individuals who are interested in collaboration with the founders. Picky eaters rejoice, with this crowd funding campaign the kids are offering awesome perks! Couch2Kitchen’s mission is to provide fun, nutritional,and educational culinary videos that teach kids the art of planning, preparing, and presenting food with the everyday kid in mind. It features friendly silicone silly cooking utensils and is the first of three product editions.

You are also free to contact Ebony Thomas at KIDChef@Couch2Kitchen.com if you would like to contribute,collaborate, or need any information. They would love to hear from you!

Event of the Season

Kim Roxie, Creative Director for LAMIK Cosmetics | Photography by: Rebecca Walton

Houston PROFILE Magazine pg. 14

Ultimate Baby Shower 10-11-2015

Houston PROFILE Magazine pg. 15

Photography by: Rebecca Walton

Celebrants | Photography by: Rebecca Walton

Photography by: Rebecca Walton

Ultimate Baby Shower 10-11-2015

Houston PROFILE Magazine pg. 16

Chris Nobel and guests, The Rose | Photography by: Rebecca Walton

Ultimate Baby Shower 10-11-2015 Photography by: Rebecca Walton

Houston PROFILE Magazine pg. 17

Yolanda Adams, Gospel Singer Entertainer| Photography by: Rebecca Walton

Photography by: Rebecca Walton

Photography by: Rebecca Walton

Ultimate Baby Shower 10-11-2015

Houston PROFILE Magazine pg. 18

Photography by: Rebecca Walton

Photography by: Rebecca Walton

Ultimate Baby Shower 10-11-2015 Photography by: Rebecca Walton

Houston PROFILE Magazine pg. 19

Chrstal Rivers, Star of Hope | Photography by: Rebecca Walton

Vanessa Reed, Comerica Bank | Photography by: Rebecca Walton

Ultimate Baby Shower 10-11-2015

Houston PROFILE Magazine pg. 20

Every week a new Lesson /PhiladelphiaChurchTX

Pastor Ralph Walton & Lenda Walton Welcomes you!

Service is held every Sunday 11 am Shape Community Center 3903 Almeda Road