Cooking Your Way Through Life

Are you the person who plans everything or the one who just goes along with whatever everyone else decides?

In this episode I sit down with Warren, a tattoo artist based in London, and we get real about planning ahead. What does it actually feel like to be the planner in your life? What about the person who just follows along? And are any of us actually making real plans or just reacting as life comes at us?

On the food side I skip the obvious meal prep conversation and get into something more useful. Food costs a lot right now so instead of just prepping the same thing all week, buy a neutral protein like salmon, chicken, or mackerel in bulk and then build different sauces and base flavorings around it. Same protein, completely different meals every day. The sauce is where the real planning happens.

Connect with Warren: @ininkwetrust on Instagram and TikTok

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Be honest: do you actually have a budget or are you just hoping it works out?

In this episode I sit down with Alyssa Garrett and we go all the way in on budgeting and finances, covering everything from the discipline it takes to the habits that actually help and what it really looks like when you are just winging it with your money.

On the culinary side I talk about using the same protein multiple ways to stretch your grocery budget without feeling like you are eating the same thing every day. I also get into how ButcherBox helps me shop smarter and stop making impulse decisions that blow the budget at the store.

And I take on Alyssa, who hates leftovers, and try to change her mind. The conversation got interesting lol.

Connect with Alyssa Garrett: 📸 @alyssagarrettrealtor 📸 @suthern_class

Alyssa is a Real Estate Agent working with D.R. Horton in the Atlanta Metro Area. If you are ready to buy your home text "Home" to 770-342-9931 and tell her Chef Hollywood sent you!

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Routines keep us grounded. But do they also keep us from growing?

In this episode I sit down with Jamal and Lexi, an Atlanta based married couple who bring a soccer coach's discipline and a graphic designer's creative eye to one of the most honest conversations we have had on this show. We dig into how routines support your mental health and structure your life, but also ask the harder question: are they quietly limiting who you could become?

On the culinary side I get into how a cooking routine can protect your budget and build real confidence in the kitchen, and why breaking that routine every now and then might lead you to discover things you never knew you loved. Because sometimes we do not know what we like simply because we have never tried it.

This one is practical, personal, and worth sitting with.

Follow Jamal and Lexi: @jbyeldell | @lexiwandesigns | @lexisrisuwanyeldell | @blackcrownath

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No guest today. Just me and a conversation I think a lot of us need to have.

Stress is something we all carry but the Black community in particular has a long history of pushing through without ever really addressing it. In this solo episode I get honest about what causes me stress, what I actually do to manage it, and why I think understanding your stress is one of the most powerful things you can do for yourself.

And then there is the food side of things. I have always been able to cook under pressure but baking is different. The patience it requires, the measuring, the process of slowing down and trusting it, that is what actually resets my mind. Cooking does not do that for me the same way. Baking does.

This one is personal and I hope it finds whoever needs it.

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Control is something we all wrestle with, and in this episode I sit back down with my longtime friend Spencer Jason to really dig into it.

Spencer is a Bosun for Uncruise Adventures out of Alaska and this is his first time joining me since the podcast went visual on YouTube. We talk about the difference between giving up control and recognizing when you actually have it, and why understanding that difference changes everything.

On the culinary side I share four foods that were invented because someone completely lost control in the kitchen. Pure accidents and happy mishaps that ended up changing the way the world eats. You will not guess all four.

This one goes deep, and it is a good time doing it.

Follow Spencer on Instagram: @theschmerz New episodes every week at chculinarycreations.com

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