United States Chef
Pretend Chef Profile
"Touchdown recipes with the ocassional fumble."
Kingwood, TX (United States)
Joined February 22, 2011
Intermediate Cook
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Top Chef, Top Photographer, 573 CookEatShare points
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Profile - 13
Recipes - 136
Photos - 368
Reviews - 0
Comments - 45
Invites - 0
Friends - 16
Groups - 0
Themes - 0
Total - 573
About me
I'm a stay at home mama and fumble my way through the kitchen to get meals on the table. That's why I call myself the "Pretend Chef". I only think I know what I'm doing. Haha! Thank goodness for recipes.
Cooking Influences
Started with my Mama, Food Network, cookbooks, and now my fellow food bloggers.
Recommendations
Favorite Cookbooks
- 365 No Repeats: A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners (Rachael Ray)
- The portion sizes are too large and recipes are hit or miss.
- Flat Belly Diet! Cookbook (Liz Vaccariello)
- Diet that helps you lose up to 15 pounds in 32 days! Diet food done right.
Restaurants I Recommend
- Primati Brothers (Pittsburgh, PA)
- Angus sandwich with egg and bacon = heavenly!
- Los Cucos (Kingwood, TX)
- Fresh guacamole and beef fajita tacos = the usual!
- Aladdin's (Houston, TX)
- Naan bread, hummus, spinach salad, baked chicken thigh, chicken skewers = Authentic done right! Amazing!
Comments
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- March 20, 2011Thanks for the follow! another stay at home mom too! Gonna try your carrot ginger soup recipe tonight,looks good:)Lets all continue to fumble to the table with joy! take care-sarah1 reply
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- March 8, 2011Hello:)I'm quite lucky,my mum doesn't live that far from me (thank goodness) and she babysits for us at least once a fortnight:)Yeah being a mum sure is hard work isn't it?lol.Do u want any more kids?I've got one of each,so i'm really happy with that:)I think i'd go nuts if i had another one!lol!1 reply
- March 8, 2011That is great that you have that family support. I would love to have a real date night with my guy. We've talked about having more kids. I love having a boy and would love to have another boy. I'm not sure how I would do with a girl. Not much of a girly girl. I try but I don't even really know how to put on makeup. Do you have a blog?
- March 8, 2011Yeah i know the feeling...i have an 8 year old son and a 4 year old daughter!lol!But its not so bad for me as my son is at school during the day and my little one goes to nursery in the afternoon for 2 hours...i try to get all of my housework done in the morning so that i have the afternoons free:)Do u not get much time to yourself?1 reply
- March 8, 2011My guy works out on the road for a living and he sees home maybe one weekend out of the month during the Spring and Summer months. He is at home for almost three months during the Winter when the weather is not good for travel in his line of work. We live 2000+ miles away from both of our families so I don't have any extra hands to take him for a couple hours if needed. When my guy is home though I feel like I can finally take good showers. Haha! Itty bitty does take naps but that is when I can clean up the damage he's created and get the house back in order. I do try to take an hour or so to myself in the morning or stay up an hour later at night. It works.
- March 7, 2011U obviously love cooking as much as i do.....i've got another website for u...allrecipes.co.uk1 reply
I've got about 62 recipes on there:)- March 7, 2011I'll have to browse through there when I get some down time again. Not much down time with a 2 1/2 year old.
- March 7, 2011Hi...i'm a stay at home mum too:)My cottage pie 'is' really yummy...u should give it a go:)I just joined here yesterday....i have plenty more recipes that i'm going to put on!lol!1 reply
- March 7, 2011I have a blog at http://imapretendchef.blogspot.com if you want to check it out. I have lots more recipes on there. I'm new to this site as well!
- March 4, 2011Thank you for the compliment! We love our Pittsburgh Steelers, haha! Can't wait to see what you are up to in the kitchen as well!
- March 4, 2011When you post a recipe how are your friends informed? Or do you just have to click on their individual pages to see what they've cooked up?
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- March 3, 2011Hi!1 reply
Being an at home chef is a tough job - three meals a day, 365 days a year and not very many days off! I think we all feel a little like we're pretending on most days!
Best wishes!- March 3, 2011Don't forget the two snacks, haha! I love being in the kitchen minus the doing dishes part!
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