My name is Jennifer and I have been married to a chef for 25 years.

I blog about my life as a chef wife and how we combine restaurant and family life each day.

If you are new to my site, start here.

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What Does a Chef Watch on TV?

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A few months ago I posted on Facebook that the movie Chef was streaming on Netflix. The comments on the post surprised me. Many of you began to comment not only about the movie, but also listed some your other favorite Chef and food related movies and TV shows. So I asked a few more times and compiled this list of shows that chefs and their wives/significant others have enjoyed. read more…

The Struggles of a Chef Wife: Sick Kids

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I hadn’t intended for this to be my first topic in this series. But it’s what I’m struggling with at the moment!

Seeing your kids sick is no fun. We’ve been fortunate to never have all 3 sick at the same time. (Although now that I write that sentence, they will probably all wake up sick sometime soon, right?) There have been times (like right now) they have “shared” their sickness with each other and just as one is starting to get better, another one gets hit with it.

The Struggles of a Chef Wife

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There are a lot of things I enjoy about being married to a chef . . . great food (when he’s home to cook), help with meal planning, having someone who can fix my mistakes in the kitchen (over the phone or via text), free samples that appear in our home from vendors, menu tastings at his restaurant, his creativity . . . the list could go on and on. A lot of the sterotypes we hear about being married to a chef ARE true, sometimes. Not as often as people think, but yes, occasionally they are true.

But just like everything, with the good comes the bad. Being married to a chef isn’t about enjoying 5 course meals every night. (And if you think it is, please stop reading this post and read this first.) In the 19 1/2 years we have been married, there have been a lot of things I have really struggled with as a result of my husband’s career.

Now don’t get me wrong, I love that he is a chef and know it’s the perfect job for him. But that doesn’t make it easy for either of us. We’ve had many discussions over the years of how hard it is to be a successful chef, husband and father all at the same time. He runs himself ragged doing just that and I am blessed to be married to him. read more…

How to Blog in a Small Niche: Blog Set-Up and Organization

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We should probably start with the basics before we move on in the series How to Blog in a Small Niche. The majority of this post really can be applied to ANY blog (or website), no matter if your niche is big or small. HOWEVER, if you are in a small niche, you have to work EVEN HARDER to get your blog to stand out online so that people will share it with others!

Before we start, can I ask you a quick favor? It will only take a second. I promise!

I know most people reading this post are not my target audience. (I blog about being married to a chef and raising a family with a chef.) If you know someone married to or dating someone in the restaurant industry, (a chef, server, line cook, manager, bartender, etc.) will you share my blog via email with them? I appreciate your help in getting the word out about my blog.

Now moving on . . . Let’s start off by talking about how I set up my blog/websites and how I organize all the things that go on behind the scenes of my blog. read more…

What a Chef and His Wife Think You Need in the Kitchen

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The post below is further proof of how differently my chef/husband and I think about food (or things related to food.)

Let me start of by mentioning my chef/husband’s view on food and the preparation of it . . Simple, Seasonal, Local. Why put 20 ingredients in something if it would taste better with 4? Why buy an onion chopper, if you have a good knife?

(This also answers the question as to why simpleseasonallocal is part of my website address. My chef/husband has a website/blog. It’s not updated as he has no time (big surprise), but maybe it will be one day. I decided to attach my blog to his, just in case something ever becomes of it.)

Random tangent . . . Sorry.

But Simple, Seasonal, Local. That applies to his cooking, his thinking, etc. I guess I should have thought of that before asking him what 5 things he thought we needed in the kitchen at home. His answers were not what I thought they would be, but now that I think about them, are perfect (and much more affordable than mine.) read more…