When Crystal first asked me to guest post on her blog, Tidbits of Experience, on the topic of marriage, I wondered what I could really say that hasn’t been said already.
I had an entire post written about creative ways to find time to communicate with your husband, since that is something we struggle with because of the crazy hours my husband works as a chef.
And then I changed my mind. It just didn’t feel like the right topic.
So I started to think about what I wished I knew or what I was glad I knew early on in our marriage. I could ramble on and on about what I wished I knew early on, but the one thing that kept coming to my mind was a piece of advice given to me by an older woman in a Bible Study one morning many years ago. (Wow, that makes me sound old!) (more…)
For the majority of the time my chef/husband has worked in a professional kitchen, he’s worked on the weekends. With some jobs he has had Sunday off or at least Sunday morning off so he could go to church. But other than that, if it was a Friday, Saturday or Sunday, he was at work. No questions asked. (more…)
Don’t you just love that you can ask your chef what ingredients are in a dish and they can tell you just by tasting it?
I love that when I mess up something that I’m cooking, he can taste it and fix it (most of the time. Sometimes there is just no hope and you have to start over.)
What’s even better is when you can describe how something tastes over the phone that is just not quite right, and they can tell you how to fix it without even tasting it. That’s just crazy!
My chef/husband’s knowledge about food and his ability to taste individual ingredients in food just amaze me. You would think that after 20 years I would be used to it, but sometimes he still surprises me.
His hyper-sensitive taste buds are definitely one of the perks of being married to or dating a chef! (more…)
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If your chef kids are anything like ours, they always want to cook like Daddy (or Mommy). They want to pick out their own ingredients and make up recipes (that we have the privilege of trying). I love their creativity and desire to learn.
The kitchen is usually a disaster afterwards, but at least that gives us the chance to teach them how to clean up after themselves, right? (UGH!)
In our home library, we have quite a few children’s books about food, cooking and even a few about being a chef. Our girls love to read and since our life revolves around food because of my husband’s career, we tend to read a lot of picture books that have something to do with food.
A few months ago, I came across the children’s book Julia, Child. It’s a sweet book about two friends who love to cook and end up coming up with recipes for adults to help them grow young. (They think grown-ups are too busy, hurried and worried.) (more…)
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