{"id":30,"date":"2018-05-12T15:59:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T15:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trialbyfryer.com\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2018-06-22T20:27:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T20:27:10","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/trialbyfryer.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hey there! I’m Jackie, and I grew up loving food. I’m that annoying friend who’s like, “Wait! Do not touch your heritage chicken egg yolk ravioli with fried spinach threads until I get a picture of it! What…? Oh, you’re not in it, don’t worry.” My first adult-free foray into a kitchen was a collaborative effort featuring my twelve-year old self and two other middle school friends, on an entirely overambitious black forest cake that involved layers, three different elements, and unknown ingredients that we definitely skipped. It came out looking like black goo, I\u2019m pretty sure it was collapsing on one side,\u00a0and it tasted decidedly, mysteriously, not like chocolate. My next two baking attempts, at lemon bars and chocolate meringue cookies, were praised by family members, but I do not remember them being tasty. The first successful baking endeavor that I can remember was Tollhouse chocolate chip cookies (oh, that good ole’ standby!), and from then, I\u2019ve never looked back.<\/p>\n
Now I live in Chicago with my husband James and our black cat Dorothy. Ever since moving to the Windy City about two years ago, I’ve presided over the largest, most spacious kitchen I’ve ever had, and it’s really allowed my cooking (and the number of kitchen gadgets I own) to flourish. I\u2019m a public health researcher by day, but when 6 o’clock rolls around, I only speak in tablespoons, bunches, and saut\u00e9 instructions. It’s my hope that with this blog, I can share my love of whole, fresh food, inspire more cooking, and show that, even when you’re short on time and high on hunger, weeknight cooking doesn’t always have to be a trial by fryer!<\/p>\n
Obviously, I also love puns.<\/p>\n
All of the recipes on this website (except for Sunday dinners and Desserts) are things I make on a weeknight, after getting home from a full time job.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s break that down. I love cooking, and so I acknowledge that I\u2019ll spend more time on it than the regular person would on a weeknight. But we all get stuck in ruts, we all run out of ideas when 6 o\u2019clock is approaching and we\u2019re starving<\/em>. So, I hope to provide here forgiving, modifiable, non-fussy recipes that are utterly delicious and mostly foolproof. Because when I\u2019m running low on inspiration, those are the things I’m looking for.<\/p>\n Here are my personal criteria for weeknight dinners, and these will be the kinds of recipes you\u2019ll find on this site:<\/p>\n On the other hand, Sunday Dinners are just that – things I make on Sundays (or Saturdays), when I have more time to try some trickier recipes or new techniques. As for desserts – they are what got me started in the kitchen – see above! Baking is my original love, and this is where I share my weekend baking projects, with the occasional weeknight chocolate cake.<\/p>\n You’ll hear me referencing James a lot in my recipes and my posts. He’s my husband, and my partner in the kitchen and in life. He\u2019s a great sous chef when I need him to be, but he\u2019s also a curious and enterprising head chef in his own right. Many of the recipes here are his or inspired by him, and he\u2019s even requested his own section on the Recipes page. He\u2019s introduced me to novelties such as leeks, butternut squash, and no-boil lasagna. He\u2019s also taken on Asian cooking with gusto, and makes a mean marinade. He\u2019s the stir fry king, and our fried rice is an amalgamation of our best selves. By day James is an experimental physicist whizzing microscopic particles around and around a ring, but at night he snuggles with our cat Dorothy and eats coconut yogurts. In the supermarket you can find him in the exotic fruits section looking for new melons<\/a> to try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" About Me\u00a0 Hey there! I’m Jackie, and I grew up loving food. I’m that annoying friend who’s like, “Wait! Do not touch your heritage chicken egg yolk ravioli with fried spinach threads until I get a picture of it! What…? Oh, you’re not in it, don’t worry.” My first adult-free foray into a kitchen was … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trialbyfryer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trialbyfryer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trialbyfryer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trialbyfryer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trialbyfryer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/trialbyfryer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/trialbyfryer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trialbyfryer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
About James<\/h2>\n