November’s Nine: On Cooking

My life in food has been a gift.

The food that I’ve cooked has become part of shared memories and family history. I’ve served last meals to couples in love and first meals to infants that are now nearly adults. The places that I’ve travelled to and the people that I’ve known along the way became part of my history.

Now it is time to food differently, less glamorously, less bougie. It’s been hard on her to sit in the back room of a kitchen for the past four years and finding childcare is almost as much work as cooking. It’s time to give the kid what she deserves, which is the movie version childhood with a mom who has homework snacks at the ready.

Enter Cook Chop Chop. Cook Chop Chop publishes menu ideas with loose recipes that help people to get a good, quick, tasty meal idea without the endless prep. Each menu rolls into the next to use leftovers and extra ingredients.

The goal of Cook Chop Chop is to make life easier for people who have too much work to do to think about inventing a meal that everyone will enjoy. In the movie version, someone tells me how to make money from such an idea.