MOST OF MY BEST IDEAS START WITH FOUR WORDS.
Okay, Hear Me Out.
This is the part of Pink Smoke Social where I get ideas.
Sometimes it’s a recipe I can’t stop thinking about.
Sometimes I changed something that probably didn’t need changing.
Sometimes I found something on the road,
bought something ridiculous, opened the refrigerator,
or wondered what would happen if we put
two perfectly good foods together.
Some ideas become recipes.
Some become favorites.
Some become stories we tell later.
Either way, we’re making the damn thing.
WELCOME TO MY SIDE OF THE KITCHEN
There’s a Method in Here Somewhere.
I cook for the people I love.
I question rules that don’t make sense.
And I have a habit of taking perfectly
normal things and wondering what
would happen if we did them differently.
That’s usually where the fun starts.
RECENTLY, IN MY KITCHEN…
It Started With an Idea.
Right now I’m collecting recipes, making lists, changing those lists, feeding Cash, bothering Mama with questions and occasionally creating problems that didn’t exist five minutes earlier.
Soon there’ll be plenty to see here.
THE ACTUAL RULE
Make It Fit Your Life.
The recipe. The tradition. The celebration. The plan.
Keep the parts you love. Change the parts you don’t.
Eat breakfast at three in the afternoon.
Make birthday cake because it’s Wednesday.
Put dinner on the good plates
even if dinner came out of a cardboard box.
Food is supposed to be part of your life,
not another set of instructions for
how you’re supposed to live it.
There isn’t one right way.
There’s the way that works for you.
FROM THE WILD JAI FILES
Okay, Hear Me Out.
The files are currently suspiciously empty.
Give me time.
I have ideas.
STAY FOR DINNER
There’s Room at the Table.
Take what you like. Change what you don’t.
I’ll be over here having ideas. 🩷