This month I’m participating in a 30 day YouTube challenge where I post 1 video a day. I think I’m a bit crazy for trying this, but who knows, maybe I’ll really enjoy it! So here is my first video. Since there are many of you new to the blog lately, I thought I’d do a quick intro video so you could meet the chef wife behind Emulsified Family. You can also read more about our family on this page.
I don’t know about you, but I really enjoy reading what other chef wives and girlfriends have to say about this crazy life we live being married to a chef.
I’m guessing you enjoy reading about it too since you are on my blog right now. (Thanks!)
If you’ve never written a blog before, it’s not as easy as you think. A lot of time goes into writing posts and even more time goes in to promoting them. (Because who wants to take all that time write a post and only have 5 people read it?)
It’s also a bit of a risk. I’m just a normal person who is willing to share part of my life on the internet. That’s a bit scary if you think about it. I will always be honest when sharing about our family, and because of that, sometimes it’s really personal and I’m not quite sure how people will respond. That’s tough.
“When I get married, I’m going to marry a chef because I can’t cook.”
“I want to marry a chef so they can cook for me every night.”
“My Mom just told me I better find a chef to marry or I might never eat when I move out.”
I feel like I’ve been talking a lot lately about things that I struggle with, being married to a chef. So in case I’m coming across as a complainer, let’s talk today about some of the positives of being married to a chef. There are a lot of them, but here are my favorites!
I LOVE that my chef/husband can make something out of “nothing.” I look in the refrigerator and see that we have nothing to eat and think we need to go to the grocery store. My chef looks in the same refrigerator and manages to create a yummy dinner for our family of 5. I have no idea how he does it, and really wish I could.
I LOVE that he can just look at a recipe and tell if it’s going to turn out. This comes in very handy when I’m looking at a recipe I found on Pinterest. So many recipes online don’t turn out (it’s like the writers never even tried it after they wrote it????). It’s nice to be able to run one past him before he goes to work and get some feedback on it before I try it. (And often he tells me he has a recipe for that (big surprise) and pulls it up on the computer for me. I then of course have to convert it so I don’t have 5,000 cookies . . .)
I just love our little community of chef wives and girlfriends in our closed Facebook support group. It’s so fun to be able to connect and talk back and forth with each other about the joys and trials about being married to or dating a chef.
A few months ago in the group, we were joking around about some silly chef wife t-shirts someone saw online. The conversation kept going and long story short, one chef wife came up with a great little phrase (see below) that we all thought was true and realistic and I had some t-shirts printed for us! Woohoo! I’m so excited!
Chef Wife, Mother of 3 and the Blogger behind EmulsifiedFamily.com.
