Dinner Made Simple

Meet Your Cooking Coach

For many, making dinner for one family is drudgery. For Toni Scott, making dozens of meals for multiple families is an ideal way to spend the day...combine this with teaching others how to cook and you have the makings of dream come true. For this life-long "foodie," the role of personal chef and cooking instructor has been the perfect blend of her life's passions: delicious food and entrepreneurism.

As the founder and former owner of Austin Transcripts, Toni built a successful business utilizing skills gained over nearly a decade working for some of Austin's most important law firms.

While she enjoyed working for herself, she found that she was most passionate about food: searching for the most interesting and nutritious ingredients, drawing from international inspirations and family traditions rooted in Texas and Louisiana and creating memorable meals for friends and family. The best part of her day, she found, was making dinner!

In 2004, she embarked on a mission to use her entrepreneurial spirit to bring great food to busy families and in the summer of 2005, launched Dinner Made Simple Personal Chef Service. Every week, she makes hundreds of meals for families who have come to rely on her to create dishes that help them eat well and make more time for each other. When Toni's not preparing meals for her personal chef clients, she teaches cooking classes at an Austin-based kitchen store, sharing her indispensable tips and shortcuts with the students.

Now she’s passing along the skills used as a personal chef, cooking instructor, and as a busy mom of four to you to help you get a delicious dinner on the table.