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.

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I Never Knew How Hard Mother’s Day was for So Many Women

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Until I lost my mother to cancer 12 years ago, I never knew Mother’s Day was a hard day for anyone. For me, it was a fun day to celebrate my Mom and my Mother-In-Law. While my chef/husband was always working, (hello busiest day of the year – no Mom wants to cook) we just chose another day to celebrate and that was that.

I have no idea why it never occurred to me that this would be a very hard day for so many women. My Mom lost her mother to cancer when I was 9 months old and my Dad lost his mother when I was 7. I’m sure all those Mother’s Days after they died were hard. But either I was oblivious and didn’t notice, or they did a pretty good job of hiding it from me. read more…

A Day in the Life of a Chef’s Wife – May 2014

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10 on 10. . . A friend has challenged me to pick up my camera on the 10th day of every month and take 10 pictures, a picture every hour (approx.), to document the day.

So below is a quick glimpse into our day as a family of a chef. I say that because you’ll notice my chef/husband is only in one of these pictures, and it’s the picture of him on my cell phone. 🙁 It’s the day before Mother’s Day. He left around 6:30am this morning and still is not home as I write this (10:45pm). Lovely! Hopefully he’s on his way home soon!

I struggle with worrying so I decided to have my friend Jen over at Rustic Pine Designs make Philippians 4:6 into a sign to put up in our living room. As I sat in my favorite chair this morning, they were right in front of me. What a great reminder that no matter what comes my way, I have no reason to be anxious but just need to take it to God in prayer. Perfect way to start off the morning.

I am so in love with homemade honey yogurt right now. Again, I blame this on my chef/husband and his extensive research on making yogurt last year for a cooking video. I can’t seem to get enough of it. This was breakfast this morning, homemade honey yogurt with granola and strawberries, in a mason jar of course. read more…

A Few of My Favorite Things – April 2014 – Mason Jars

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I’m not sure if this happens to anyone else, but things my chef/husband uses in the restaurant and menu items he’s developing end up in our kitchen. Sometimes it’s a salad dressing I wonder how I’ve ever lived without. Sometimes it’s cheesecake in a jar with lemon curd which I could eat 10 of in one sitting.

Lately, it’s been mason jars.

I’ve become obsessed with mason jars and I totally blame it on my chef/husband.

And while I love mason jars, I think I might even love the plastic screw on lids even more!

You might laugh and think I’m crazy, but can I tell you that I have spent entirely too much money this month trying to find the PERFECT pen to use when labeling a mason jar. And still haven’t found one that works perfect with condensation. read more…

H2O at Home Giveaway

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I am so excited to be hosting my first giveaway on Emulsified Family!

If you’ve browsed around my blog at all, you’ve probably seen my page on How to Clean a Chef Coat. If you haven’t, I would encourage you to take a peek. Go ahead, I can wait. 🙂

In November I was introduced to the Netepur Bar from H2O at Home and once I found out how well it worked to clean chef coats, have been obsessed with it (and all their other products) ever since.

Being married to a chef, washing chef coats is just part of my daily routine. Nothing ever seemed to really clean them well and my husband would have to buy new ones every few months, costing the restaurant money. I googled “How to Clean a Chef Coat” so many times, trying to find a product that would actually work.

Then I found the Netepur Bar.

I’m not the type of person that tends to go on and on about things I love, but after washing so many chef coats and being frustrated for so many years, when I actually found something that worked, it’s kind of hard to keep my mouth shut about it. read more…

Help! We are Raising a Family AND my Husband is a Chef

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When I started this blog a few months back, I started scouring the internet to see what other Chefs’ wives or significant others were writing about their lives, with hopes of finding I was not alone. The first blog I came across (because she took the domain name I wanted (just kidding Kerilyn)) was MarriedToAChef.com. It’s been so much fun chatting back and forth across the country with another chef’s wife! Funny how we can live so far apart, never have met in person, but have so much in common immediately!

Today, I’m writing about raising a family with a chef over on MarriedToAChef.com. I’m so excited to have this chance to guest post on Kerilyn Russo’s blog! I hope you’ll take a chance to hop over there and read the post, comment on it, and then take a few minutes to look around her blog. read more…