I love to cook. What’s more, I love to cook for my friends and family. Ultimately, I use cooking and food as a way to bring people together. None of this is news to those who know me. People often ask me for recipes for things I’ve made for them and I’ve frankly struggled to provide them because of the way I cook — if I use a recipe at all I almost always modify it. Sometimes I cook completely off the cuff, making things up as I go. Other times I combine elements of four different recipes for the same dish, using the best parts of each.
Fast forward to the present day and the unprecedented crisis we’re experiencing due to the coronavirus pandemic. The social distancing we are practicing has separated us from the people we normally host on a regular basis (which is devastating to my wife and I – especially when the various kids in our lives ask when they are next coming over.
Thanks to a suggestion from my friend Andria Bever, I started thinking about how I could share my cooking with others. It started with the Instagram Stories I’ve done the last couple of nights (if you’re interested, follow me @chezhoff). Those have been well received and after several people have asked for recipes – boom – this site was born.
I’ll post recipes periodically. Some will be more fully thought out than others. Many won’t have been “tested” in terms of quantities and times (I’ll try to come close but, well, it’s hard to do when you’re an improvisational cook like I am). I’m new at this and am not good at measuring – if you try something and it doesn’t work I’m (truly) sorry and want your feedback.
Let me know things you’d like to see me cook and/or want recipes you’ve been thinking of making but haven’t. Love to you all!