by Jennifer | Being Married to a Chef, Blog |
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If you are married to or dating a chef, you need another recipe or cookbook like you need a hole in the head.
Seriously!
I say that jokingly, but it’s true!
The problem is not the NEED for a recipe, it’s the NEED TO FIND the recipe you want to make and the MATH SKILLS TO SCALE DOWN THE RECIPE so you don’t end up with 5 gallons of salad dressing. And then, HOW TO ORGANIZE these recipes that you’ve now converted into a home quantity!
With my husband being in his kitchen at work the majority of the time, the planning and cooking of meals at home falls to me. Meal planning is not something that comes naturally to me, but without it, we would eat horribly and would spend an absolute fortune on food! While I don’t always use recipes when I cook, I love to try new things and am constantly looking for new ideas. (more…)
by Jennifer | Being Married to a Chef, Blog |
Remember those cute dish towels you got as a wedding present?
Yeah, neither do I.
If you are not married to or dating someone who works in a professional kitchen, you now think I’m crazy and can’t for the life of you figure out why I would write a post about dish towels.
But if you are somehow connected to a chef, you know exactly what I’m talking about and are laughing like crazy right now because YOU CAN RELATE!
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by Jennifer | Being Married to a Chef, Blog |
Up here in the land of perpetual rain, the grass grows really fast. So fast in fact, that if I had a free minute, I could probably stand out in the yard and actually see it get longer.
When we lived in Southern California, we had a gardener who took care of our yard. Growing up my Dad had such bad allergies that caused trouble after doing yard work so it was just not an option for him to mow the lawn. When we got married, we rented apartments and small homes and had a gardener then too. It was an affordable option in that area and was very nice to have.
Fast forward to a move up to the Pacific Northwest where the prices for a gardener are double or triple, take my salary out of our budget and add a few kids . . . a gardener was no longer possible.
So now what? We’ll just take care of it ourselves. My husband can go out and mow the lawn in all his free time!
Tom was happy to do it, but with very long hours and a wife and small kids at home, it wasn’t always easy to fit it into the schedule and grass grows really fast up here! (Did I already mention that?) (more…)
