It's The End Of The Year As We Know It

a free ebook and a pep talk

I channel all my feelings into my food. Some people run, some people scream alone in their cars, I cook. If you’ve been cooking along with me for all these years you can see my moods, habits, and obsessions change with each recipe. You’ve watched me grow up. Everything from the ingredients I pick to the instructions I write are all snapshots of me and my world at that moment. It’s all right there in my quinoa craze, my roux affair, and my refusal to roast a whole cauliflower and pretend it’s a meal. I put it all on the plate and I’ve been at this awhile. Between the website/original Tumblr, the five books, and all the paid editions of The Broiler Room, I have written- at a minimum- 650 recipes since 2013. That number feels crazy but the math doesn’t lie. Countless food trends have come and gone over those years but most of those days all looked the same for me: alone in a kitchen, hunched over a stove, surrounded by notebooks, and listening to a good book. It’s a sustained but massive effort. I feel all of it.

this was the 4th batch of straight failures

Behind those 650 recipes are tons of bad ideas, huge failures, thousands burns, and even more dishes piled in the sink. There are break-ups, breakdowns, and bad reviews. All the shit that fills up a life. It's easy to focus on all the ways you’ve fallen short over the last decade, even just this last week. I love to torture myself with countless shortcomings too. Like, when will I finally take my car to the mechanic? No one knows, not even me. But here at the end of 2023, let’s focus on our wins because we all deserve that energy. Try to zoom out and see all the big-picture kind of stuff that you’ve pulled off from your own sustained but massive effort. Your own 650 recipes. What have you created by showing up and trying, over and over again? Maybe you taught yourself to cook, learned another language, or figured out how to deal with your shit without punching holes in walls. Maybe it’s as small as you finally figured out to take your multivitamin every day. Whatever it is, celebrate it as we welcome a new year. Is there something you are feeling extra proud of? I’d love to hear it and I bet everyone else would too.

no self loathing even if its hilarious, k?

Hell, I’m so proud of all of you for just showing up here week after week that I got you a present. As a thank you for giving me a reason to get in the kitchen year after year, I wanted to share with you the ebook /preorder incentive for Hungry as Hell. It’s full of great recipes from the book and ways to remix those recipes to create entirely new meals. I walk you through all the changes and why they matter so you can start cooking with more confidence. The sopes are one of my favorite recipes from this last year and guaranteed to be a hit whenever you get around to making them.

Hungry As Hell Remix Ebook

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hiding from the real world until 2024 just like Clemmie

As a reminder, we’re going dark here at The Broiler Room for the next two weeks to enjoy the holidays irl. But I won’t be far so feel free to drop any cooking q’s in the comments or subscriber thread and I’ll hit you back up as soon as I can. I do this for all you readers so really, ask away. Any ideas of what you want to see here in the future?  New food trend predictions? Is the goji berry making a comeback; will celery juice finally fall out? *fingers crossed* I’m going to keep predicting that next year will be The Year of The Pupusa until it finally happens. 2024, don’t let me down. Lastly, be kind to yourselves as you do your end of year thoughts and New Year’s resolutions. Consider it an order right from the kitchen. All of you who are reading this newsletter, following us on social media, and showing us support are truly the absolute fucking best. I wish I could pop over and cook all of you dinner one night. You deserve it. Until then, the ebook will have to do. Merry Christmas!!!