Kitchen Secrets with Jason Goldstein

In today's episode of the "Helping Families Be Happy" podcast, host Christopher Robbins, co-founder of Familius publishing, husband, father of nine, author, fisherman, backpacker, and aspirational musician based in the Central Valley of California, talks to Jason Goldstein. He is the author and creator of Chop Happy, a fantastic blog. He specializes in delicious and simple comfort dishes that showcase rich flavors, inventive ideas, and unique cooking tips and advice. Jason is the author of the Happy Sandwich, scrumptious sandwiches to make you smile. Today they are going to explore how to save money, do fewer dishes, and save time in the kitchen.

 

Episode Highlights

• 03.44: As per Jason, when it comes to efficient kitchen management time is usually the most important. No matter what you do, no matter where you are, everyone wants some more free time or time for themself. 
• 04.30: Jason shares how one can cook pasta in a slow cooker.
• 06.24: Jason shares how sheet pan saves dishes and how one can make a whole meal on a sheet pan.
• 07.27: Jason reveals how he keeps the meats and veggies separate in a sheet pan. 
• 09.05: Doubling recipes save time shares, Jason. 
• 10.02: Budget is important for everybody and as per Jason people overspend anyway, regardless of inflation and stuff. 
• 10.30: Frozen vegetables are frozen at the peak of their freshness. So you are actually getting the same nutritional value and stuff for less price and it's already prepared for you
• 11.02: There are a lot of ways to save time. As per Jason see your pantry and use your frozen and canned items. 
• 13.17 If you have bacon leftover and you use it for a recipe for breakfast, you can actually freeze it again and just take it out and use it, says Jason. 
• 14.21: Jason shares how one can cook the perfect pizza. 
• 16.00: Jason talks about cooking hacks that will help people in their kitchen, save time, have fewer dishes, and save money.

3 Key Points

1. Jason shares how the slow cooker is a great piece of equipment that can help you to save time.
2. Food is good money, food is expensive, and inflation has really hit people's pocketbooks. Jason shares his idea for saving money and how people can avoid overspending on food.
3. Jason talks about the difference between frozen and non-frozen food and how much nutritional value each holds. 

Tweetable Quotes

• "What you can do is after you get the kids to bed, you're getting ready to watch whatever shows on Netflix you want, you drop things into the slow cooker, put it in the fridge. And right before you go to work, you start your day. Just turn it on take it out of the fridge and turn on that slow cooker and it will cook dinner for you, so you don't have to spend a lot of time doing stuff throughout the day to make dinner happen." - Jason
• "If you are trying to roast meatballs and veggies with all those hacks on TikTok where you get the crispiest potatoes and you smash those potatoes, just take like the tin foil and make like a little section in the middle so it doesn't get there." - Jason
• "I actually love to double my recipes whenever I make, so if I am making a meatloaf with potatoes, I will actually use sushi pans and I will turn the oven to convection. So that the air circulates on everything and everything cooks evenly. And I will make two of them so that this way you one I will eat for the week or make sandwiches out of them or whatever it is we need to do. And the other one, I will wrap and freeze it and then I will just defrost it, so I have dinner another time for me." - Jason 

Resources Mentioned

• Helping Families Be Happy Podcast Apple
• Familius Instagram Facebook Twitter
• Jason Golstein Instagram TikTok
• https://chophappy.com/
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