Jen absolutely loves cooking and trying new restaurants, but she will eat just about any home-cooked meal after just graduating from eating four years’ worth of college crud. She is quite accomplished and is excited to one day progress to owning some awesome kitchen appliances! As Jen prepares to get married and fills her registry, she finds that she mostly requests items for her kitchen. She would love to be surrounded with crazy gadgets like food processors and marinade brushes and thermometers, just so that she could cook even more advanced food! However, these are dreams of the future, and for now, she is proficient in low-mess meals on the grill. She hopes to share with you some easy ways to make meals that are nutritious, don’t break the bank, and don’t require you to have a professional kitchen!

Emilie enjoys experimenting in the kitchen. She once tried to make a cake on the stovetop (please note that she was very young and had obviously been told nothing about cooking). She is willing to try anything once, and this had led her to the good (ostrich at the Stratosphere Las Vegas) and the bad (sushi on a college campus). She tends to be friends with people who don’t mind spending a few sheckles on an excellent meal and who have stomachs of iron- just in case she ever has another bad seafood experience.