Mikaela Cooks

I’m a personal chef of a different sort these days 👶🏼🫶🏼💁🏻‍♀️

We’re stocked up on freezer friendly finger food

- shrimp creole patties
- black bean sweet potato veggie patties
- broccoli cheddar fritters
- turkey sweet potato cheesy black bean patties
- beef and veggie meatballs

Client gave a big clap of hands for the variety taste test 👏🏼

A cookbook club recipe

Simply Korean by Aaron Huh

Even the baby loved 🫰🏼

All in good company ❤️🍽️🍷

Chefs are inherently lazy when it comes to feeding themselves. But that doesn’t mean we want take out or TV dinners.

We’ve got standards and a few tricks up our sleeves to get food on the table in minutes.

A rice bowl is one of many tricks I’ve got up my sleeve

Cause…

Rice is king,

but any grain will do.

You can top rice with just about anything.

It is filling, neutral, and cheap.

Read more on Substack

Let me show you how to build the perfect bowl with things you already have on hand

2026 is already such a vibe 🫶🏼🍽️

My board is all about my energy and focus

*my energy is expensive, my presence is a privilege*
(No more people pleasing, my time is to precious for that bs)

*make it happen* *start* *one day at a time*
( this year I’m testing out ideas I can’t stop thinking about)

I’m already obsessed

Community is EVERYTHING and I’m growing mine

Check out my link in bio to see what I’m up to

Our first gathering was intimate and telling that this was exactly what a lot of us have been needing.

We took turns passing our dish around the table, discussing the recipe and tasting.

Everyone chose different recipes (cause things have a way of working themselves out)

And since all the recipes were created by the same author, the meal flowed together seamlessly and even ended with a dessert.

The gathering felt warm, conversation flowed easy and the night ended tastefully 💕

Next cookbook gathering is March 14th
Details are on my website

Book details on Substack (with recipes)

https://open.substack.com/pub/mikaelacooks?r=576hpl&utm_medium=ios

Cook & Tell is like show & tell for your food (messy counters and all)

This is a place to find your digital (but also local) community of food obsessed people. (Hosted on Discord)

https://discord.gg/MPBbEN23K

A place to tell us what you’re making, what you thought of a recipe, what you changed, would you make it again? Make us wish we were at your house for dinner.

January is often met in a hurry, but what we really need is to take a deep breath. Slow down, get in some cozy pants and curl up with a blanket.

Read more on how to build community, set attainable goals and dive deeper into self reflection in my latest substack

https://open.substack.com/pub/sundayloaf/p/january-a-time-to-slow-down?r=576hpl&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay