I Did a Crazy Thing: Favorite Chef Contest

So we've established that I love to cook, right? Well, I saw this random competition for aspiring chefs and thought, why note? It's one of those popularity contest type of competitions where you ask people to vote for you, and the most votes win. Yes, I signed up at like three in the morning when I should have been asleep. Shut up.

I kind of want to win.

The prize is $25,000, and some other stuff that I can't remember, but this would be a great chunk of money to use for culinary school, traveling abroad to learn more international cuisine, or even to open a little food stall at a farmer's market. Possibilities abound. It's not a ton of money but it'll do; I'm not trying to open a restaurant, I just want to make good food that brings joy.

Voting opens March 31. DO NOT LET ME DOWN. A vote for me is a vote for delicious meals when I invite you over to celebrate my win! Vote more than once and I'll come to your house to cook for you. Vote ten or more times and, I don't know, maybe I come a meal prep for you, enough to last you a month. Again, POSSIBILITIES ABOUND.

I'm not sure if I should be offering incentives, of if you can vote more than once, but seeing as only 10 of y'all are on my mailing list, and I know you in real life, what could it hurt?????

Tell all your friends! And if I've ever cooked for you, I encourage you to leave a comment and let the people know what I'm bringing to the table 😋

Love & (Meat)Balls,

Jaded

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a mí me gusta el chivo con vino

y el pescao con jugo de limón

con pimienta y orégano el lechón

y el arroz con jamón y tocino

para ponerle sabor a un buen fiestón

Domesticated. Kinda.

During the pandemic, when we were all scrambling to stay sane, I didn't jump on board the bread-making train but I did take a good look at my home life- the clutter we kept, the food we ate, the habits we had as a small family, and I didn't like what I saw. 

Fast forward to now, wherein I build towards becoming a prepper, and you can't tell me you haven't thought about it. I want control over the quality of the food my family eats and what it costs. I want to harness energy from the sun and the earth to heat and power my home. I want us living on a small compound where we can look after each other. And I know this is starting to sound cult-ish, but I've seen so much ugly behavior from people lately that it takes a whole lot to get me to leave the house. 

Since I'm indoors anyways, might as well be Suzy Homemaker, amiright? Well...

I try. But I don't live alone and my roommates 1) don't help with the home-keeping, and 2) make more of a mess than I can keep up with.

What I can do, I like to highlight sometimes online as Doña Ivelisse. 

I cook a lot; I do my own hair and nails; sometimes I do hair and nails for others; and I declutter and design cute spaces in my home. Most of it I document online for shits and giggles, not for any real clout or influencer dreams, because the thought of setting up a camera every time I decide to chop an onion or trim my own hait makes me want to lay down and never get back up. I do think I can use this space to speak on some of my favorite project more in the future, so there's that.

In the meantime if you haven't already, feel free to peruse my fun little IG. And when you're in town, give me a holler and maybe you'll get a dinner invite or a bag of complimentary bagels.

Love & Balls,

Jaded

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i let you live here for free

and I don't even charge you rent

i clean up all your messes

and I'm always there when you need to vent

and this is the thanks I get?