ABOUT

Meet Jill, an OG East Coast Girl with a California Way of Cooking

Cookbook author, cooking instructor, mom, and the voice behind What’s in the Fridge? Welcome to my virtual kitchen. Here’s how it all started.

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MY STORY

How My Cooking Journey Began…

It all started with a plastic-food restaurant, a few imaginary customers, and a lot of yelling, “Order up!” From there came an E-Z Bake Oven, a very proud first stir-fry, feeding sitcom writers in Los Angeles, a personal chef business, and over 150 cooking classes with students ages 5 to 80. Now there are two cookbooks and a brand new virtual kitchen.

Isn’t my wallpaper cute?! I hope you’ll stay and look around or come back and see what’s new in my kitchen. Pull up a stool, I’ll always have a story to share!

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Inside My Kitchen

My Approach to Making You Confident in the Kitchen: Preparedness

It starts with a plan. Each cookbook comes with balanced snack and meal charts, plus, a comprehensive list to help you stock your fridge, freezer, and pantry. Use my recipes as your scaffolding and get creative with your own spin. Or follow them to a tee. Either way, I've got the Post-it notes to help you through it.

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A few more things about me

Quick Bites

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In the press

Making Headlines
(Okay, one headline. For now.)

My hometown paper, The Baltimore Sun, featured What's in the Dorm Fridge? in its Education Guide. A Baltimore girl lands in LA, raises a college kid, and writes a cookbook so dorm dinners can be better than takeout. I'd read it.

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let’s cook together

Your Guides to Delicious Meals is a Click Away

Two cookbooks and complimentary sticky notes to mark what you want to make. Pick one or pick both, flip to any page, and let's fall “in like” with cooking together. I’m there with you the whole time, via sticky notes.

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