Who in the world can just dump ingredients into a pan or bowl and have something turn out perfectly EVERY TIME?
Crazy!
I’m not sure why this surprised me so much this week. My husband has been a chef for quite some time. But it did.
Knowing at least one person would ask me for a recipe for something my chef/husband cooked for my birthday party last weekend, I asked my husband ahead of time what recipes he used.
His response. “None. I just dumped the ingredients in.” (more…)
Depending on which chef or chef wife you ask, you’ll get a different answer to the question, “Does a chef cook at home?”
In our family, my husband does tend to cook some on his days off. It’s usually the meal I’ve planned. He just makes it taste better than I would. Plus, if he’s just sitting there while I’m cooking, I think I make him nervous. (The other day as I was cutting something and he asked, “Are you OK over there?” I was fine, but apparently he was concerned for the safety of my fingers. LOL!! He got up and finished the cutting job.)
Yesterday was no different . . . well maybe just a little. He had the day off of work and we celebrated my 40th birthday with family and friends (6 weeks late.) Just a simple BBQ menu – BBQ pork sliders, coleslaw, beans, potato salad, cornbread and apple crisp with salted caramel ice cream.
To me, this looked like a ton of food (and of course we had enough to feed everyone there that night and then again tonight if they all were to come back.) But my chef/husband’s comment to me was how easy it was compared to the quantity of food he helped prepare at work on Saturday. (more…)
For the past couple months, my chef/husband has been working on menu development for a couple other restaurants in his company. (This has been on top of his Executive Chef position . . . hmmmm . . .)
So the other day after the girls got off the bus, my husband tells us that one of the restaurants is rolling our part of the new menu that evening and asks us if we wanted to go try it.
The first response from our 9 year old – “Do we get to get dressed up in fancy dresses?”
She’s only 9. We’re in trouble.
Sure why not.
Like I’ve said before, we don’t go out to eat very often. And this evening would definitely feel like work for my chef/husband since it was his recipes we’d be eating.
But feeling like work or not, he suggested it so we were going.
All you have to do is mention going out to eat at a restaurant where Daddy has something to do with the food and the girls are excited!
15 minutes later, 3 girls in fancy dresses with cute hair and Mom and Dad in jeans and shorts (we like to be comfortable) piled in the car and off we went to dinner. (more…)
Introverts are people who are energized by spending time alone.
I don’t understand this at all because I’m an extrovert – completely the opposite.
However, my chef/husband is an introvert.
This is one area where we are nothing alike.
Looking at the definition of the word introvert, it doesn’t sound like that fits very well with the career of a chef, does it?
Not at all.
Put my chef/husband in a social situation and he’s very quiet. He usually won’t go out of his way to talk to people. If someone comes up and talks to him, he’s fine. But he’s not a big fan of small talk. (Too much to do, too little time . . .) He would just rather be at home instead of around a group of people. Being around a large group of people is not relaxing or energizing for him AT ALL! (more…)
Chefs work constantly!
Just stating the obvious here, right?
However, if we’re being totally honest here, they do actually come home and sleep and rest at some point.
The problem is, this time they are home to sleep and rest is usually when we are at work.
Boo!!
WORKING OPPOSITE SCHEDULES AS YOUR CHEF/HUSBAND OR CHEF/BOYFRIEND STINKS!!!
There is really nothing positive to say about it. (Except maybe that week night dates are great because places are less crowded!!!) (more…)
Chef Wife, Mother of 3 and the Blogger behind EmulsifiedFamily.com.
