Yea, long time no post....  Been off computer a lot lately, working in the garden, cooking, and researching mostly via my iPad mini ( Read more... )

As of 12:55pm EDT, my chronological age increased by one.  Yes, I survived another revolution around Sol, for the 46th time.  I figured I'll just have friends come over Saturday and do silly stuff like play board games, make homemade Peeps, hit the jacuzzi, and in general have fun.

So, having been out of a professional kitchen for 3 years, and knowing this Personal Chef job will entail small home-kitchens, I expected I'll need several practice runs to figure out timing, what I need to bring, etc.  My first practice run turned out to be a real challenge, though: a couple who are trying the Whole30 diet.  Whole30 is a more ( Read more... )

I have now completed the certification to be a Personal Chef, and got my CA Food Handler's Certificate.  I've got an appointment with SCORE next week to help my idea become presentable for a bank or the SBA to give me a loan, and I'm working on what my start-up costs will be (not cheap, but nowhere near as bad as a brick-and-mortar concept) so now ( Read more... )

I am looking for houses to invade and practice my Client Assessment and cooking in strange kitchens.  So.... for the cost of groceries, you can have a CIA-trained chef visit and make you and yours some fabulous food.  I'll take the first 5 people to send me private mail here and schedule Assessment appointments!

(and yes, I'm thinking about ( Read more... )

Usually, I get butterflies in my stomach whenever something is about to happen that's life changing for me ( Read more... )

So far, this has been my best season for pies, and there's still a month left of the Holiday season.  The harvest has been good, with lots of pomegranate jelly, pumpkin, and apple pies.  Now, there are lemons, limes, and rose hips to process.  There are fuyu persimmons still on the tree, so I should look into ways to use them too ( Read more... )

Well, mostly... there's still maybe 10 pomegranates hanging on the tree, but they're rather inaccessible at the moment (need a ladder and/or a fruit picker).  But this year's harvest yielded almost 2 gallons of cold-pressed juice, which means my team of helpers and I slowly pried all the arils from the pith, then squeezed them in cheesecloth to ( Read more... )

For the curious (thank you, tuftears) Here are the current details and at least one picture of my pies.


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Sorry I've been lax in posting, but having been unemployed this long has me fighting depression, and when I'm depressed I *don't* log in and spout my black mood upon others, I tend to go hide under a rock for a while.  I've had several interviews, but nothing panned out, so now I'm in the process of completely revamping my resume with a focus on ( Read more... )