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The Stay At Home Chef
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The Stay At Home Chef offers restaurant quality recipes you can easily make at home. If you want to become a better cook, learn how to cook, or just need dinner ideas for your family, this channel is for you. We’re taking really good recipes and making them easy recipes that you can make at home in your own kitchen. Cooking, baking, how to, all things food, and more!
Follow me as I share recipes, tips, and tricks to help you become a great home chef! All written and printable recipes can be found on my website at www.thestayathomechef.com
Order my cookbook here: https://geni.us/hG7lIm
Follow me as I share recipes, tips, and tricks to help you become a great home chef! All written and printable recipes can be found on my website at www.thestayathomechef.com
Order my cookbook here: https://geni.us/hG7lIm
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The Stay At Home Chef
I've been holding out on you YouTube friends! For the past couple of years I've been doing a series on Instagram and Facebook where I host a Sunday Chat. We just sit and chat like we're old friends and talk about all sorts of things. It's become an incredibly popular series where a couple hundred thousand people watch them every week. I've never posted them on YouTube before. Should I start? Would it be too random to just start posting them here? What do you think? Are you interested in that sort of thing, or should YouTube remain strictly for cooking?
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➡️ RSVP Here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-sit-...
Cme spend some time with me at Milk Bar NYC for a simple, casual Sit & Chat. This is me slowing down, pulling up a chair, and making space to connect on a personal level. No stage, no script, just conversation that goes wherever it wants to go. I'll order us some desserts and we'll just see where it goes!
If you’ve ever wanted to say hi, share a story, or just sit in a space that feels easy for a minute, this is your invitation.
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I’ve had so many comments and messages about my cookbook lately, I should probably post about it again!
So ya, this is my signature cookbook. It’s called “The Stay At Home Chef Family Favorites” and it’s available anywhere books are sold. Since 80% of books are sold on Amazon, here’s that link from which I make approximately $1 per sale, in addition to the $1-$2 I get from the publisher. Score! 🤪:
https://amzn.to/4k8y62r
This cookbook definitely wasn’t written for the money. The short version of the story is that I was rapidly losing the ability to cook at the time, due to an undiagnosed neurological condition. I wanted to create a cookbook for my kids so that I could still somehow teach them how to cook. I made a video demonstration for every recipe and my husband had the genius idea of including a QR code to the website with the video for every recipe (which had never been done before! Now it’s very common!)
Somehow I got a publisher to agree to it and they allowed me to pack in as many recipes as I possibly could. There are more than 300 if you include all of the variations and “hidden” recipes found in the notes. I wanted it to be the only cookbook my kids would ever need.
I really did lose my ability to cook just before it went to publication in October 2022. I didn’t get to do a full book tour because I was too sick, something I hid the best I could. In December 2022 I lost the ability to eat normally and digest food and ended up on a pureed soft foods diet for the next 2 1/2 years.
Last May, I finally found a treatment that worked miracles. I’m back to cooking and eating now and I really do use this cookbook every week in my house. These really are our family favorites. I couldn’t include all 1400+ from the website, but this book is an excellent start.
Thanks for loving them as much as I love them.
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The Stay At Home Chef
2026 is the year I am quiet quitting blogging.
Here are my 2026 goals for The Stay At Home Chef that I shared with my peers. I wanted to start actually running with those goals by sharing them with you. Be gentle! And be prepared for a lengthy read.
I don’t like what the internet has become. I don’t like what food blogging has become. There’s no joy in it for me to be a slave to algorithms and I am disgusted by the level of dishonesty that now consumes the entire content creation industry. Greed has overshadowed an industry that was born purely out of passion.
So I’ve decided I’m going to join in on the Gen Z movement of quiet quitting.
“Quiet Quitting” doesn’t mean I’m walking away or shutting things down. It means stepping back from the performative side of the internet and recommitting to the part of this work that has always mattered most: connection, creativity, and joy. It’s choosing intention over optimization, honesty over strategy, and sustainability over hustle.
I’m not disappearing. I’m just doing this on my own terms again.
My only real goal this year is to focus on creating content that brings me joy and saying to hell with everything else.
I started developing recipes 17 years ago as a way to cope with postpartum depression. I used the food i made to connect with people and make friends in the isolated town I had just moved to a few weeks before having my first baby. People loved my food and wanted the recipes so I started publishing them to a blog.
My very favorite part of blogging has been the connections I’ve made with people all over the world—both followers and other bloggers. I’ve been blogging for nearly half my life and those connections have shaped my entire experience as an adult. I’ve raised my children underfoot as I’ve developed and published over 1500 recipes.
For almost 10 years now, people have recognized me wherever I go. While I’m often awkward about it and feel like I embarrassed myself afterward, I truly love getting the opportunity to meet the people on the other side of the lens that I always imagine when I’m filming videos or taking photos. I’ve always been talking to them and meeting them is like meeting someone I’ve only dreamed about. I’ve met fans everywhere from grocery stores to Disneyland to airports all the way to Italy and just the other day in Cambodia. It’s been the honor and privilege of a lifetime.
I attended my first blogging conference 12 years ago. It was the first time I ever met another blogger and I was absolutely giddy to be surrounded by so many people that shared a love for food and cooking just like me. I instantly fell in love with the community. Some of my favorite treasured life experiences and friendships have been with other food bloggers.
I have had a ROUGH few years. Few? Several? It’s felt like forever. I wasn’t supposed to make it to this year. I’ve been given the gift of a whole new life. 2025 was a year spent lost in grief and then horrific PTSD. I keep saying that it’s all made up and none of it matters so make the life that matters to you. And that is exactly what I’m going to do.
Creating content that brings me joy means creating connection. I have a bunch of content already prepared that will continue to go out, but after that, it’ll just be whatever I feel like. Maybe it’ll be polished. Maybe it’ll be raw. I don’t know. It’ll just be me. So probably not polished, or the best, or the most beautiful, but I’ll be finding joy in it.
Now let’s see what happens!
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mangotree2110
(5 years ago (edited))
I made this last night for my son's birthday.
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tamimataya5468
(6 years ago)
NO ONE CARES IF YOURE WATCHING DURING QUARANTINE OR BEFORE YOU SLEEP I WANT TO SEE SOME REVIEWS GO DAMMIT
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canadiancaribou855
(6 years ago)
Everyone in quarantine here
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RelaxxationStation
(6 years ago (edited))
Flying bananas
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AFCKingDavid
(6 years ago (edited))
Who’s watching this in bed whilst starving?
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luisannaconti8461
(7 years ago)
who is wachin' while fastin' yo cuz im fastin' !RAMADAN KAREEM!!!!!! yo!
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doriandoros2403
(6 years ago (edited))
She predicted quarantine.
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kaijiren3460
(6 years ago (edited))
"She put her sweat and blood into this cake"
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narjesbenali1198
(4 years ago)
I am a little girl and I love making dessert for my family. This the recipe I always use to make a 3-layes cake. My family loves it.
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kuckian
(5 years ago)
me: i really want to make the matilda cake for my besties bday
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t.l1616
(6 years ago (edited))
Just made this cake, even my picky parents liked it. For anybody who wants to make it you should give it a try!!I already wrote it in my answers but I'll say it here, I didn't use this frosting recipe I just mixed a random amount butter Cocoa powder and icing sugar, have a nice day!
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daijoubougie
(5 years ago)
My man Brucey didn’t eat that whole cake on stage as the entire student body cheered on to be called “that fat kid”
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