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While many people are out shopping the Black Friday sales, we are staying in today to celebrate Thanksgiving as a family.
1,000 guests have been served.
Too much food has been eaten.
The piano has been played.
(Look at this video the restaurant posted on Instagram of my chef/husband playing the piano HIGH UP IN THE AIR on Thanksgiving!! That is crazy!!) (more…)
Preparing for Thanksgiving can be overwhelming.
It’s a big meal, full or recipes that we only make one time of year.
There’s pressure to have it all taste good (obviously) and to have it all warm and on the table at the same time.
Somehow, we all manage to pull it off and live to tell about it year after year.
But have you ever stopped to think about what it’s like at the restaurant your chef/husband or significant other is working at?
Sure they tell us how insane it is and we see them physically exhausted before and after. But have you ever seen what the back of the restaurant looks like the days leading up to Thanksgiving?
It’s like nothing I could have ever imagined!
My husband’s restaurant will be serving 1,000 guests on Thanksgiving.
1,000!
I can’t even being to fathom how you would do that.
Let’s look for a minute at what prepping Thanksgiving looks like in a restaurant . .. no fancy photography, just snapshots with my chef/husband’s phone. I’ll only share a few since you probably don’t care about seeing all 15 of them. (more…)
As we get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving this week here in the United States, I have been reflecting on all the things I have to be thankful for. While I could write for hours about this, I thought I’d just share today why I’m thankful for my chef/husband of 19 years.
I am thankful for my chef/husband because . . .
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Emulsion
[ih-MUHL-shuhn]
a mixture of one liquid with another with which it cannot normally combine smoothly (like oil and water); an atypical combination of two things
After a year of blogging on EmulsifiedFamily.com, I have come to love the name “Emulsified Family” and feel it’s the perfect way to describe our family (and probably many of yours.)
Why?
I’m so glad you asked!
Let’s start off by looking at it from a culinary perspective. Emulsifying is a delicate process. It needs to be carefully prepared. It requires ideal conditions (temperature, balance, interaction, etc). It won’t hold together forever unless it’s cared for, but can be repaired if it breaks.
Have you ever tried to make mayonnaise? If you just throw all the ingredients into the blender it’s not going to work. (Maybe it would work with a Vitamix. But in my Oster blender . . . no way!!) But if you take your time and carefully follow the correct procedure, you’ll get something that is far better than what you started with. All the ingredients on their own are fine. But together, they can be AMAZING.
Why is it that I always have these great big cooking ideas on days my chef/husband is working?
Oh, right, he works a lot. How could I forget? If I waited until he was off, I might never do it.
A few months ago I purchased 25 lbs. of rainbow carrots. I decided to can them because there was no way we would ever be able to eat them all before they went bad.
As I started to cut them, I began to get frustrated with myself.
Why in the world was I doing this on a day my chef/husband was at work?
While I have some basic knife skills, I’m not very fast.
He also took my favorite knife to work and refuses to bring it home. So I was stuck using my second favorite knife.
He on the other hand, could have done the same task I was doing in about 1/10th the time. And I’m not exaggerating. (more…)
Chef Wife, Mother of 3 and the Blogger behind EmulsifiedFamily.com.
