{"id":8752,"date":"2012-03-06T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.afterhoursagency.com\/wgc\/?p=8752"},"modified":"2019-10-06T13:31:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T20:31:44","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.afterhoursagency.com\/wgc\/a-day-in-the-life-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A day in the life…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think it’s totally fascinating to hear about what a typical day looks like in someones life.<\/p>\n

One of my friends Koko<\/a> from Koko Likes does it all the time!<\/p>\n

And Damaris from Kitchen Corners <\/a>did it a few weeks ago<\/p>\n

And then I was reading my bff’s blog, Matt Bites<\/a> and he did one too. So I thought it would be fun to give you a peak into my world as a private chef and food writer!<\/p>\n

I wear a lot of hats. I am a private chef. I do food styling. I do freelance food photography out of my home studio. I do professional recipe development. So, basically I’m all about food all the time. Here’s a peak into one day….<\/p>\n

I’m up early. At least I think it’s early… 5:35am – stumble into the bathroom and get ready for bootcamp!<\/p>\n

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Out the door by 6:00ish<\/p>\n

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Spend the next hour getting my ass kicked at Barry’s Bootcamp.<\/p>\n

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Head out of bootcamp! Dying. I look like I just got out of a shower.<\/p>\n

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Quick pit stop at my favorite juice bar to pick up some breakfast!<\/p>\n

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Home by 7:50! Showering is the first order of business. Then it’s time to work on my blog post and publish!<\/p>\n

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Make a grocery list for whatever I planned on cooking for my clients that day!<\/p>\n

Spend a little time with my little baby Stella! She needs lots of attention before I leave for the day \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Super fast dash to the santa monica farmers market to pick up some berries for the rest of the week!<\/p>\n

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9:30 Whole Foods!<\/p>\n

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Load up on everything I’ll need for my clients that day and any pantry supplies that are needed!<\/p>\n

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Drive on over to Beverly Hills!<\/p>\n

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In the kitchen by 10:30 and ready to cook!<\/p>\n

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And these are the fabulous people I get to spend my day with….<\/p>\n

This is Koko! She’s amazing and we love her! She also has an awesome food blog. Koko Likes.<\/a>\u00a0 It makes me happy and her recipes are always spot on!<\/p>\n

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This is Evelyn! I don’t know what I would do without her. She keeps the kitchen immaculately clean \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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And this is Jessica. My client. Along with her awesome fiance Eric. You may recognize her \ud83d\ude42 She’s amazing and I love her!<\/p>\n

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10:45am. First up is our daily green juice!! We all have a glass. Gotta start the day with lots of fresh veg!<\/p>\n

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Throw some veggies in the oven to roast! I’m making a big roasted vegetable chopped salad for lunch \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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12:00 Lunch time! Koko and I take lots of food pics. We’re food bloggers. It’s what we do.<\/p>\n

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1:30pm. After lunch I make some shoestring fries for snacking<\/p>\n

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2:00pm. And then it’s time to move onto dinner! I usually make a few things, and then they all get packed up and left in the fridge so they can be eaten later that night when it’s dinner time. Here’s one of the options for that night: Cowboy Caviar Quinoa Salad. I served it with a cilantro pesto too!<\/p>\n

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2:45pm. Time to make my favorite course of the day… Dessert! I made some s’more cookies. They were delicious.<\/p>\n

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I’m usually out the door by 3pm. Quick trip to the spa to get a mani\/pedi<\/p>\n

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Home by 4:00pm. Just in time for a little snuggle session with Stella!<\/p>\n

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4:10pm. Menu planning for the next day!<\/p>\n

4:30 Shoot my latest recipe for an upcoming blog post!<\/p>\n

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Taste test my recipe again. Just to be sure. I mean someone’s gotta eat those brownies right?!? It might as well be me!<\/p>\n

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5:15pm. Facetime with my sister, Anya, and her uber dependent cat. Literally the cat cannot live without my sister. Obsessed would be an understatement.<\/p>\n

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6:30pm. Yay! Thomas is home \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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7:00pm. Dinner time! Thomas, my fiance, picked up this amazing cinnamon swirl brioche a few days prior so we did a little breakfast for dinner action and made cinnamon swirl brioche french toast.<\/p>\n

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7:30 wedding planning time!! Gotta make lots of decisions on rentals, flowers, and other fun details!<\/p>\n

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8:00pm. Mandatory pinterest<\/a> addiction time. I must spend at least an hour a day on pinterest. It’s like a drug. I can’t be stopped. Most of that time is spent pinning wedding stuff. How people planned a wedding pre-pinterest is just beyond me. It’s seriously the best tool ever.<\/p>\n

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9:15pm. Catch up on all 1423 of my TV Shows! Tonight’s all about Shameless and The Bachelor!<\/p>\n

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and then it’s off to bed!! 7-8 hours of sleep later and I’ll be rising and shining for some early morning bootcamp!<\/p>\n

And that’s it! 24 hours of food, food and more food!<\/p>\n

Thanks for spending the day with me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think it’s totally fascinating to hear about what a typical day looks like in someones life. One of my friends Koko from Koko Likes does it all the time! And Damaris from Kitchen Corners did it a few weeks ago And then I was reading my bff’s blog, Matt Bites and he did one […]<\/p>\n

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