I just placed an order for some new chef pants for my husband and chuckled to myself as I remember a conversation between my chef/husband and one of our girls recently.
She was asking about the clothes he wears to work every day.
It started off with the question we all ask ourselves as we are washing chef coats!
“Why do chefs wear white chef coats when they are around food all the time?”
So how does a chef celebrate his birthday? By working of course. And not just working, but getting up at 4am to open the restaurant. The only good thing about that (besides that he has a job and I’m grateful we can pay our bills), is that meant he was home to have dinner with us!
After being gone from the house for 12 hours, he came home to 3 very excited little girls who were ready for him to open the presents they had for him (the minute he walked in the door).
What do you get a chef for his birthday anyways? Top Ramen? Lol – no, but he probably would have loved it.
We decided that instead of getting him things that he really doesn’t need or have time to use, we’d each pick something special to do with him and give that to him. My chef/husband doesn’t have a lot of free time (BIG SURPRISE) so the items he has for his “hobbies” unfortunately do not get used that often. We tried this last year and we all loved it. It gives each of us a special date with just him (sometime during the next month.) (more…)
A family of 5 living on one income, the income of a chef . . . I would guess you’re either thinking, “How in the world do you do that? You must be crazy!” Or ,“We’re doing that too and I know you’re crazy!” (Or I guess you could be thinking, “Wow! Her chef/husband must be a Food Network star.” He’s not.)
I say that jokingly, but really, I do feel like we are a bit crazy.
In the series, A Chef, a Wife and a Child, one of the questions I asked was, “What has been the hardest part for you and your chef/husband with the addition of a little one to your family?”
The #1 thing for us, without a doubt, was adjusting to living on one income. This is by far too big of an issue to get buried in another post. So here we are! (more…)
Tonight, we’ve come to the end of the series, A Chef, a Wife and a Child. Thank you for all the emails and comments as you’ve shared with me and my readers your joys and struggles about raising a family with a chef.
Tonight, it’s my turn to answer the 5 questions. . .
Tell me a little about yourself and your spouse.
My name is Jennifer and I’ve been married to my chef/husband for 19 years. My husband started working in a professional kitchen about 6 months after we got married. He is now an Executive Chef/Culinary Directory for a restaurant group in Seattle and I stay home full time with our girls. I do a little website development and blogging from home as I have the time.
I was originally thinking this week I would be sharing my answers to these questions and ending this series, but I had a last minute volunteer so how can I say no to that???
I’d like to introduce you to Rups. She’s from India, but currently lives in the United Kingdom. (I love that technology can connect us from all over the world) and she’s sharing her answers to my 5 questions. 🙂 Yeah!
Tell me a little about yourself and your spouse. (Please include how long you have been married and what your job is (in addition to being a wife and mom.))
My husband and I have been married for 8.5 years. We met online – we are both from India where arranged marriages are common, and since neither of us were too keen on the prospective spouses our parents had lined up, we both went online where we found each other. He was working in France at the time (having just finished his Master’s degree in Hospitality as a mature student). I was working in my home town of Delhi. After a year of online and phone courtship (and a fleeting week together in Delhi), we got married. During that year he moved to the UK – partly because work opportunities for me in France were nil and partly because it is very difficult to succeed as a chef in France if you are not French. I moved to the UK to be with him and we have been here ever since. I work full time in an IT company as a technical writer and he has held the position of Executive Chef in a series of hotels. (He’s a serial job hopper!). (more…)
I just placed an order for some new chef pants for my husband and chuckled to myself as I remember a conversation between my chef/husband and one of our girls recently.
