#former chef

[thestarvingchef]

A Warm Welcome!

You can call me Tay. I’m a former chef with experience in fine dining, fast food, pizza whatever you name it. I spent a lot of time in my life experiencing food in all its forms. I haven’t used tumblr since I was a young teenager so I’m a little rusty here.

I’m gonna be completely honest here, I wanna post content and stuff on here but I have no idea whether there’s even an audience for it here. If you have any requests let me know, even if you just want cooking advice hit me up, otherwise imma just do me on here. If that appeals to you, chuck me a follow. DMs are always open aswell.

#foodblogger #foodie #chef #cheflife #cooking tips #culinary #culinary journey #kitchenlife #kitchen #cook #cooking #food lover #food #recipe #cookingadvice #food experience #cooking community #former chef #foodtalk #cheftay #gourmet cooking #fine dining #foodpassion #newblog #Aus

[fantasticallydysfunctional]

I think one of the perks of being my friend is just the fact that I will feed you. Like you'll get 4 meals including a main course and dessert in like 3-4 weeks. You're sick? Let me whip up a soup really quick so you can have something soothing to eat. I got you.

#i have the urge to feed people #former chef #seriously though i cannot stop #we're talking pierogi #we're talking soups #we're talking pie #we're talking cake #grandma behavior

[suntails]

oh i forgot. happy pride month

#i work for sesame st and yknow. in the moment it made this feel justified but um. now? #still justified actually fuck it i stick with my principles i stand by my former self. she was onto something #lilia x the count from the muppets. theyre literally canon wym wym #fun challenge to find muppets who should talk to the twst chars. i would like to suggest silver talk to the swedish chef #dove said sebek would talk to sam eagle and thats SO fucking accurate and true #twst #twisted wonderland #lilia vanrouge #suntails

[missingexaltation]

Here's a bit of a meta analysis on Eddie and Steve and the general jock/nerd thing. It's worth pointing out that they're still only 19/20ish so they're slightly entitled to be somewhat selfish idiots, but they're at that time of life where they're starting to grow out of it.

There's so many positive reblogs on my last but one text post (where Eddie gets involved with Steve's hobbies) and I find it so interesting that it's not really explored in fic.

I mean...Steve's trying to 'grow as a person' by embracing nerdy things and that's great! Stereotypical high school 'bully' becoming less of a douche bag.

But Eddie embracing the stereotype and doing 'normal' high school stuff? Sign me up! He's a guy that was probably bullied or harassed by the jocks for at least some part of school before he grew hard skin. He's actively (and loudly) denounced them to their faces and protected younger nerdy/outcast kids.

Of course he's going to think sports are shit. That's what those dumb, bullying morons enjoy more than anything, so it's gotta be bad, right? (Hell, you can even take it further and say that his own dad used to beat the shit out of him as a kid if he made a noise when The Game was on.)

So he's prejudiced against the jocks (for a reason, but that's not the point), all while shouting at the top of his lungs about conformity and the bullshit about being a sheep. Yet all he's doing is conforming to a different stereotype, and not really realising it.

It's not until he meets up and speaks with Chrissy that he realises he's judging her without knowing her, and quickly rectifies it by being nicer. Then she dies and he couldn't save her. She was popular and sporty...but she was sweet and nice, and didn't deserve what happened to her.

Then Steve happens. Former Poster Boy for Jocks, and yet he's not a piece of shit either. But Steve's different, he tells himself. Steve's actually a nerd in wolf's clothing. He comes to D&D even if he doesn't play. He watches Star Wars and hangs out with 'unpopular' kids. He's 'better' now. He's learned his lesson.

It doesn't occur to him that Steve's trying to change himself to fit in, and still enjoys all of his own hobbies. He just does it either in secret, or ashamed when 'caught'. So Eddie doesn't see anything wrong. He's been proven right...THE Jock is in their nerdy little group so he's completely validated.

So maybe one night they're all at the Munson's, playing D&D. Except Steve's nowhere to be seen. During a breakin the campaign, he's found in the other room with Wayne and Hopper, watching the football. And Eddie makes some comment or another about Steve backsliding into sports.

And before Steve can say anything, Wayne tells him to stop bullying Harrington into his interests, and let the poor kid enjoy the football if that's what he wants to do.

And Eddie's mortified.

He finishes the campaign for the night on autopilot, the Game ends, and everyone else goes home, oblivious to what those earlier ten seconds has done to Eddie's psyche. Wayne's sitting there with his last beer of the night, and Eddie joins him, quiet and contemplative.

'I'm not a bully.' He says. 'I'm not like my dad.'

And Wayne just looks at him, smile on his face.

'I know.' He says. 'But you can't force everyone to like only your things, son. Just because you don't like football or basketball doesn't mean your friends have to feel the same.'

And Eddie thinks about it. He thinks about it for days. Steve never really complains. Sure he makes comments now and again, but Eddie's taken that as 'Steve's jock side coming out' instead of 'Steve just being frustrated, bored and lonely'. And Eddie can't ignore the feeling that he's actually the one being a total dick right now.

Steve's learnt his lesson. Eddie hasn't.

Steve 'the former douchebag' Harrington is a great guy, and Eddie is unconsciously taking advantage of it to validate himself. He feels like shit.

So he goes to Steve and apologises. But Steve's confused. He still thinks he needs to make reparations for his high school years, like he's conforming in their group as a penance. And Eddie hates himself a little more, because what the fuck. That's what Steve thinks of himself? And Eddie's partially responsible for enabling that, for letting the kids make him feel like that.

So he apologises again, and tell Steve that he's not gong to let it slide anymore. That if he ever wants to go and do something he enjoys, Eddie's down for it. That Steve doesn't need to be at D&D if he wants to watch the sports instead.

He also stops mocking Steve's taste in music, stops trying to force his own music on everyone else, and steps in whenever any of the kids try to do the same. And pretty damn quickly, Steve starts flourishing.

He and Eddie take the kids to the basketball courts, and Steve tries to teach them how to play, before giving up and going 1v1 with Lucas while the others just bounce the spare ball between them and make up their own game. It's fun, and completely outside Eddie's comfort zone, but it's fun.

Steve gets the confidence to start negotiating Eddie's campaign nights when there's an important game on the TV. Half the kids want to watch it with Wayne, Hopper (and weirdly enough, Mrs Henderson). Eddie usually joins them but either reads his book, sits at the table painting his minis, or falls asleep on Steve's lap. Sports just don't interest him, but that's ok too.

It's compromise.

#eddie munson #steve harrington #steddie (i guess...the dynamics are there at least) #stranger things headcanon #stranger things #stranger things meta #Steve doing nerdy shot but also Eddie doing non nerdy shit #It's swings and roundabouts baby!! #(also i kind of HC Wayne as a former jock at school...He did a lot of growing up first in the army and then raising his weird nephew) #Steve deserves to enjoy his own things too...and shouldn't have to be the only one compromising #Eddie being mortified when he realises he's been (gently and unknowingly) bullying Steve is *chef's kiss* #steddie

[subbyp]

another thing opla really does well is highlight what a stupid plan it was for Zeff to try to get the kid he adopted for, among other things, being too damn stubborn to die to discard his misplaced guilt and start his own life by….being a crappy boss

#one piece #one piece live action #red leg zeff #black leg sanji #like ok Zeff has no idea that by dint of Not Imprisonment or Daily Beatings the Baratie is a vast improvement on Sanji’s former situation #but he does know that Sanji… you know….survived being marooned with him….. #and he thinks that being a fucking kitchen nightmare is gonna get Sous Chef Martyr Complex to stop doing what he thinks needs to be done? #also honestly I think la!Sanji might know that Zeff is putting it on—see his speech about “making the hard decisions”

[captainkurosolaire]

~ Reincarnated ~ What lurks beneath every visage.. is a truth.

#Sea Witch #Slafhota Guhtgeim #FFXIV #Chef #We are Tales #Counselor #A Dangerous former antagonist #Hiding in a reincarnated form #Sea Lurkers #Sea Wolf

[andreablog2]

I forget some people grew up going to restaurants like multiple times a week and wherever they regularly go to it becomes like a second home to them. That’s such an weird concept for me. Idk how you can have people wait on you and bring you food multiple times a week. Enjoying a meal at home is so much more pleasurable to me also like idk it’s just weird to me.

#even going to a cafe is like …idek #I’m not a master home chef or anything but like I just consider eating to be an intimate thing and even if I had the money to be going out #I’d hate the lack of privacy plus I hate receiving any kind of customer service knowing what I know as a former server

[bisexualalistairtheirin]

Deep Roads Shortcut and Skip The Fade aren't even mods in my mind anymore... they are like siblings to me.

#especially the former bc while I would prefer playing the deep roads again to the fade and have done so before #(the mod doesn't skip your companions' scenes in the fade which are the best part anyhow) #the deep roads do have better sidequests story beasts and lore... BUT #the modder for the former is sooo funny about how they went about it #they added a sapient Genlock (he references the events of Awakening so it even works as foreshadowing!) to take you to the Broodmother... #...unaware that you are a grey warden and this is very helpful to you. it's SUCH Mad Batter from The Legend of Zelda energy #my beloved. I sometimes forger that Genlock is not canon when thinking about cool npcs :^') #Games #DA:O #mods #Nexus has a LOT of shitty bad awful cursed content but a lot of the QoL mods for DA:O are *chef's kiss* #I did mean story beats but Urthemiel is there so you can pretend it's a pun

[itsanidiom]

THE PROBLEM WASN'T HOW KRAM WAS HOLDING THE KNIFE, TAI! THE PROBLEM WAS THAT HIS FINGERS ARE STICKING OUT RIGHT NEXT TO THE BLADE WHILE HE'S MAKING A LETTUCE CHIFFONNADE FOR SOME REASON

#[inner former chef screaming] #FOOD SAFE #WHY IS NONE OF THE COOKING FOOD SAFE #LOL #two worlds the series #Two Worlds #maxnat

[marley-manson]

yk i mentioned the other day that i've never found a true successor to xena in terms of satisfyingly OP women, but that's not actually quiiiite true

claymore's theresia is probably the closest that i've personally seen, and if she was the protag rather than a flashback character she'd be just as satisfying

like sometimes the best thing you can do with an epic badass action heroine isn't giving her a tough challenge she has to work super hard to fight or demonstrating the limits of her abilities, but simply making it really cool when she defeats the strongest possible opponents without breaking a sweat

give her emotional and personality flaws and/or have her ridiculous amounts of power serve the themes of the story, and boom, it's also good writing on top of being the most fun shit to read/watch imaginable

#i'm impulsively re-reading claymore instead of the many things on my to-read list #the chapter where theresia kills the awakened former number 1 just totally casually... chef kiss #text post #marley on whatever

[iwrotemrtambourineman]

it is kinda crazy how “nepo baby” can range from “this child actors father is a chef who has been featured on the food network” to “this person is a landed gentry” feels like those are different things

#still thinking of that one panel on the nepo baby article that was ‘son of chef’ and ‘son of former Yale president and owner of the mlb’ #also inspired by learning that fleabag is like literally the daughter of a lord.

[tulip-wizard]

I GOT 52ND STREET ON VINYL

#biggest win of the week #billy joel #52nd street #i was torn on which one to ask for: 52nd street or the stranger #cause both are so *chef's kiss* #but ultimately i had to go with the former #nothing can beat the love i have for the songs in that album #[looking at you ''zanzibar'' and ''rosalinda's eyes''] #eventually however i will have to acquire the stranger on vinyl as well #hearing ''scenes from an italian restaurant'' in vinyl must be a life changing experience

[vioshipping]

Wait guys I just got an idea. IM FINALLY MAKING PROPER TAGS

#the survivor/ 🎤 #the rip-off/ 🩶 #the conspiracist/ 📚 #the edgelord/ ⛓️ #the former shut-in/🎀 #the fangirl/ 🏙️ #the chaotic/💥 #the gamer/🎮 #the experiment/❌ #the demon/💔 #yeah that’s most of the current romantic f/os. Oops. All Funkin pretty much!! #Wait actually I forgot some #the speedster\🔷 #the cereal lover\ 🥣 #the restaurant owner\🍕 #the mysterious/ ☕️ #the grinning imposter/ 🪨 #the tortured trainer/ ❄️ #the hero/ 💜 #the animator/ 🖋️ #the abandoned/ 🍮 #the unfinished/ 🥀 #the chef/ 💙 #the virus/ 💻 #the nightmare/🩸

[kulliare]

wondering if the closest connection carmy had in nyc besides chef and maybe sugar (i’m assuming they would call occasionally) was some rival that the chef occasionally favored over carmy

#fighting for more self destruction in the name of betterment #i’m sure sugar at some point also got cues that nyc was running him too hard and probably said something #but coming from maybe a former rival saying that nyc chef is abusive and something and that carmy should leave #and carmy dismissing it as them just wanting him to quit???? #brutal 😭😭😭😭 #part of me wants carmy to have had NO ONE in nyc but he mustve talked or hated some ppl c’mon ~ #not going to put this in the tag bc im a scared rat. #this is a treat for my 4 the bear mutuals or followers only #i love you four!!!

[moonspower]

*shyly twirls my hair and kicks the dirt*

if i made vi's canon love interest would u be mad at me.....

#🌙 OOC! THE CROWN GLITTERS ON AN EARTH SIGN. #/ hes a former sous chef current restaurateur with some scammy lil ways... lol. #/ not too scammy... he plays it safe.

[evilroachindustrial]

KRAKEN WIN KRAKEN WIN KRAKEN WIN

#Seattle Kraken #hockey #AHHHHHHH #WE GLOWED UP SO GOOD #AND The Avalanche were Grubauer's former team?! *chef's kiss*