We have a guest blogger this week – Chef Nancy, aka my amazing Mom! As you can imagine, we spend a lot of time together in the kitchen, and I asked her to write about how we work as a team. I hope you enjoy it – please comment! Chef Angela
Hello to everyone out in the blogging world. I always wanted to write a blog so now here I am writing one at the request of my beautiful personal chef daughter Angela. Her birthday is on Thursday and she will be 29-ish. When she turned three, she wanted three cakes for her birthday and she was very upset because “she was getting older too fast”. She was half right and half wrong. She was not old, and yes it goes too fast. She most likely will delete the above few sentences but I will write them anyway. LOL
Now for the real reason I am blogging for her. You know how Rachael Ray has her acronym for extra virgin olive oil – EVOO? Well Angela has an acronym too, one that she didn’t know about: it is SPOG. As you may know, I work for Angela. I do a variety of jobs, in fact my job title looks something like this: Baker-Cookie Decorator-Delivery Person-Personal Shopper-Party Theme Planner-Organizer-Catering Expert. As you can imagine Angela and I talk a lot about food, amounts of food, types of food, how to keep food cold or hot, how to get it from one place to another and the list goes on and on. When she is discussing a recipe with me, other than the sweets, she almost always adds salt, pepper, onion powder and garlic powder – SPOG! When I am taking notes, it is much easier to write SPOG than to list all the spices. She didn’t know this, and one day as she was looking over my notes she said “what in the world is SPOG”? When Angela has her own cooking show one day she can use SPOG like Emeril uses “Bam” and Rachael uses EVOO. 🙂
SPOG
Back to Angela – she has always been a foodie. She loved making cookies with Mi Mi and would have loved cooking with my Mother (as I think this is where most of her cooking genes originated). She always made pizza with me. She could cook a full course breakfast while watching her two younger siblings when she was only eight years old. She started a Valentine’s Day cupcake business at the same age and ran it until she was thirteen. She loved watching the Food Channel and talking to my great Aunts about how the price of cheese has gone up since the 40’s. She is an amazingly talented young woman that has filled our lives and the lives of anyone who knows her with much love and laughter…and of course, great food!
Happy Birthday Beautiful, 
Your blogging Mother
