Congratulations to Hayley! I’ll get your book to you. Merry Christmas!
So my friend Tilly and I have a cooking show. Stop laughing. Please. Yes, I know. That’s why I haven’t said anything about it on this blog.
Then the 200th post thing came up and I thought, Now would be a good time to post something about it since you’ve been filming since May. Yes May. Seven months. In front of the camera before I’ve returned to pre-pregnancy weight. If that exists anymore.
Cooking in front of the camera. Cooking in my kitchen. At least it gets cleaned once a month. The camera man doesn’t pan the dining room table where everything I don’t want on camera is piled.
You can watch all of our epicsdes here and see the recipes.
This is our November show.
Now for the giveaway I keep mentioning. Sometimes when there are 9 or 10 children running around while filming a cooking show, things happen. Sort out the truth below and you will be entered to win . . . drum roll please . . . a book. I know. Shocking. I never give books away on this blog. The thing is I can’t decide which one right now so you’ll have to wait and see. Anyway, on to Stranger than Fiction. Maybe Truth or Fiction. Wait, I know, I know:
Kate’s Confusing Kitchen.
1. You can accidentally pour the pre-measured soy sauce into whipped cream instead of the vanilla (they are the same color after all) and the children will still eat it.
2. The camera man will stop the camera if one of the cooks has to change a baby’s diaper.
3. The camera man will stop the camera if one of the cooks has to nurse a baby.
4. The four-year-old can walk on camera, declare he’s not wearing any pants, you can check that he is indeed not wearing any pants (or underwear), and it can all be edited out.
5. A pre-schooler can walk through the kitchen during filming, say, “I’m done,” and place a half-eaten banana on the counter.
6. Our tag line is, Family Dinner: Because You’re in a Hurry and We Make You Look Gourmet.
7. Chopping zucchini while holding a baby is easier with a second cook to move chopped pieces out of the way.
8. The Bumbo is the best invention ever! Babies can sit in it just out of camera view but with bare feet dangling in a glass casserole dish. Highly entertaining and surprisingly quiet.
9. Unwatched water does boil and may explode during filming scaring both cooks and the camera man.
10. One of the cooks is pregnant. The other one just looks like she is. Hint: I’m not pregnant.
So which one thing is not true? Yes, one. *shrugs*. Welcome to the Controlled Chaos Experiment I call my life. What? It’s too hard to pick? Okay, okay, I’ll tell you the answer. Yes, you can still enter the giveaway. Just leave a comment and you’re entered to win.
If you want to make me feel better, you could leave a comment about one of your own kitchen disasters or an embarrassing moment. Or you could just laugh with me at the ones I’ve listed here. Believe me, there are more. Many more.
Which one isn’t true? Number 6 of course. Our tagline is Family Dinner: Because You’re In a Hurry and We’re Not Gourmet.
When my children ate the Pumpkin Crunch (scroll down for the recipe after clicking the link) Tilly made for the show, they said, “This is the best thing you’ve ever made on the show.”
I explained that Tilly had made it to which they asked, “So is Tilly gonna do all the desserts? Her raspberry shortcake was so good.” So my children are so happy Tilly endures my craziness so she can make them desserts. So go make this for your family. Enjoy.
OK, this post is my absolute favorite! Gosh, you make me smile. But way to spoil it for me by revealing the truth. As for #2, I say if the camera man has to stop for a diaper change, then HE can do the diaper change, right? (Please keep #3 as is.)
My computer is notoriously slow with video feeds, but I’m looking forward to watching the clips. Great-looking kitchen! Love your haircut!
Where is the show broadcast?
By the way, if I were ever to do a cook book, (which would be more like a leaflet), I’ve already picked the title: Cooking Under Duress. As for a show, it would be called “Iron Stomach Chef” where you must supervise music practice, answer homework questions, tend to babies and toddlers, all the while coming up with a plan B meal that does NOT require the ingredients your teenager just ate. Oh, and did I mention this meal is for a neighbor? Your own family’s having pancakes.
Hey, I think I’ve typed enough now that your video has loaded!
LOL–Cooking Under Duress & Iron Stomach Chef–you always make me laugh. 🙂 With your expertise, you should be on the show! Your odds at winning another book are looking really good!
loved that post! Highly entertaining. And kudos on the show. I can’t wait to try the pumpkin stuff, we need a fun FHE treat tonight!
So here is a funny kitchen diaster. I left my bread rising to go to the store. I had to get a few things for a trial run for some authentic mexican tamales (I just got a new tamale steamer i needed to try out). But I left my list at home, however as luck would have it there is a really nice mexican man at the store, and I thought well I’ll just ask him what I cook the meat in. That was a big mistake…..an HOUR and 15 minutes later I walk out of the store with all his tamale family secrets! I returned home to my kitchen newly decorated with yeasty dough all down the counters and floor!
However, I learned to not ask about tamales to a mexican man. And if you have to, make sure he knows english (eliminating the interpreter, who happened to be store mananger) and maybe just ask his wife (eliminating the ten phone calls home.)
Oh Hayley, I can just see your dough covered cabinets! Yes, ask the wife next time though it won’t make nearly as good of a story. I was laughing picturing you with the helpful gentleman, an interpreter, and a grocery cart with 3 children for an HOUR!
That’s so cool you have a cooking show, and the disasters were really funny. I’m glad your household isn’t as perfect as it looks on your show. Then I’d be really intimidated.
My cooking disasters . . . Oh my! I’ve been cooking gluten-free for 12 years now because my son is allergic to gluten. So most of my disasters have to do with food that’s really hard to prepare. I have to cook with things like xantham gum. One of my kids spilled the xantham gum once then dumped water on top. It’s so slippery I had to crawl across the floor to clean it up. I couldn’t stand up at all until I got every bit cleaned up.
I needed a good laugh and you just made my week!
I know the contest is over, but I thought I’d chip in my latest cooking disaster: I put some chicken on the stove with water to simmer and cook while I put the kids down for naps. I turned the stove up to high to bring it to a boil, thinking I would turn down the heat before I put the kids down. An hour later, having just gotten a stubborn 2 year old to finally go to sleep, I thought I smelled something burning. I emerged from her room to a smoke filled house, burned chicken and a black pan. Luckily the smoke alarm didn’t go off. I was also able to scrape the burn off the bottom of the chicken and salvage the rest for dinner!