52. Confident Home Cooking - The Basic Cooking Skills You Can Master to Feed Your Family

03/25/24 • 47 min

What does a professional chef want us home cooks to know about cooking food at home? Today's guest is Sandy Leibowitz of Plantains & Challah. She's a trained chef with experience in restaurants as a personal chef, and now as an educator teaching people like me how to be more efficient and effective in their kitchens. As a note, we had a few technical issues with audio during this episode, so you'll notice the sound quality is a bit different than our episodes normally are. Sandy's advice is so good that I did not want to skip this episode just for the sake of the audio, so I hope you enjoy.

If you want to dive into more of what Sandy has to offer, she's offering a few exclusive discounts for Debt Free Mom Podcast listeners. Check out her courses below, and use the discount codes to save!

Cook Without Recipes

(self paced cooking skills course)

Code: DFMPOD50 for $50 off until 4/3/24

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Chop It Like It's Hot

(knife skills foundation class)

I'll be having a free onion dice class in April before opening enrollment for this class.

Code: DFMPOD19 for $19 off until 4/8/24

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Instagram: instagram.com/plantainsandchallah

Free cooking essentials guide + weekly emails on cooking: https://tinyurl.com/cookingessentialsguide

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Cook Without Recipes

(self paced cooking skills course)

Code: DFMPOD50 for $50 off until 4/3/24

Link: https://tinyurl.com/CookWithoutrecipes

Chop It Like It's Hot

(knife skills foundation class)

I'll be having a free onion dice class in April before opening enrollment for this class.

Code: DFMPOD19 for $19 off until 4/8/24

Waitlist link: https://tinyurl.com/knifeskillswaitlist

Instagram: instagram.com/plantainsandchallah

Free cooking essentials guide + weekly emails on cooking: https://tinyurl.com/cookingessentialsguide

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51. How to Reduce Your Grocery Spending by Making Food Last Longer - Feed the Family Mini Series

Our Feed the Family mini series continues with a replay of my conversation with Amy Cross - an expert in food storage and preservation. She shares practical approaches to reducing food waste and spending even while accommodating food allergies, sensitivities, picky eaters, and everything in between. Listen to what Amy has to share today about making the most of our grocery budget.

You can find Amy Cross on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/thecrosslegacy), and on her website (https://www.thecrosslegacy.com).

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53. How to Use My Tax Refund

Since tax season is here, I wanted to answer a very common question I get this time of year: how do I use my tax refund?

Everybody has a different response to receiving a tax refund.

Some people purely see it as fun money as extra money. They can do whatever they want with it.
Other people have been scraping by the past couple of months and feel a sense of relief when they receive a tax refund want to use it to catch up and add a little bit of breathing room back into their finances.
Other people sometimes feel paralyzed by receiving a large chunk of cash all at once, because they're trying to figure out what to do with it, and it tends to disappear rather quickly.

So on today's episode, I share a few questions to think through as you receive that tax refund so you can make sure it's going to be used to not only feel good in the moment, but also to change the trajectory of your finances longterm.

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