Dishing Podcast

Meet Laura Tobin, your Guardian Angel in the kitchen. With 200 recipes and over 50 videos showing how to make traditional Mediterranean dishes, she can motivate even the most reluctant cooks!

Laura is an Italian national growing up in Rome and vacationing in Southern Italy, Laura's passion for food and cooking began as a child, when she accompanied her mother to Cordon Bleu cooking classes. Those early experiences fueled an ongoing love of food and launched her inspiring culinary journey.

As an adult, Laura has traveled the world, whether for pleasure or to relocate to foreign countries. With each new culture came a new and intriguing cuisine to discover and master.

Eventually settling in the Côte d'Azur, married and with two young boys, Laura started an English-language food blog to share her favorite Mediterranean recipes with friends. She named it Your Guardian Chef.

Little did she know then, that what began as an impassioned hobby would one day become her own 'guardian angel', helping her to find focus and heal following the sudden loss of her husband in 2018.

In the wake of tragedy, Laura took a step back to adjust to her new life as a single mother of two teenage boys. She found comfort in cooking and before long, found herself in front of her laptop, intent on re-energizing her hobby. In the space of just five months, her renewed attention to the blog has seen it grow by fifty percent, her Facebook followers double and her videos explode with views and shares.

With a new puppy by her side, and a burgeoning blog in her lap, we are delighted to invite Laura to share her story and her passion with the Dishing with Delishes audience.

Jess Hoffman is writer, photographer and recipe developer behind Choosing Chia, a food blog dedicated to delicious vegetarian recipes.

Based in Montreal Canada, Jess Hoffman began helping out in the kitchen at a young age. She founded her blog, Choosing Chia, after a spontaneous trip to India where she studied yoga and Ayurveda, a wellness practice that focuses on creating a healthy body through diet, exercise and mindfulness. Upon returning home, Jess found a new passion for healthy, plant-based cooking.

Jess loves sharing recipes that focus on wholesome, plant-based ingredients and are easy to make. Choosing Chia reflects her beliefs on diet and a healthy lifestyle, featuring delicious, easy to make vegetarian recipes that focus on fresh ingredients.

Jess's recipes have been featured in publications like the New York Post, People magazine, Buzzfeed, Well & Good, Country Living, Mind Body Green and other trusted sites and magazines.

Elizabeth Lindemann is the food blogger behind Bowl of Delicious, where she shares easy recipes that are made with wholesome ingredients and that cater to people with busy lifestyles.

Elizabeth started her food blog, Bowl of Delicious, as a side hustle and a hobby on nights and weekends when she was a high school art teacher. The blog has since grown into a full-time business. A former New Englander, Elizabeth lives near Austin, TX with her husband, Zach, and two young daughters, Zoey and Eleanor.

Elizabeth has always had a voracious appreciation of food, cooking, and eating. Maybe it's because she grew up in a Greek family that cooked - and ate - a LOT of delicious food. She honed her own cooking skills in college and grad school, and she quickly discovered that cooking was more than just a casual hobby to her.

But teaching at a Title 1 school serving primarily low-income students had its challenges, and it was easy to fall off the cooking bandwagon and opt for take-out. Elizabeth quickly learned that when she took the time to cook healthy food at home on a regular basis, she had more energy, less stress, and was able to handle the demands of her job better.

Along the way, she picked up on tricks and shortcuts to make home cooking doable even with a very busy lifestyle, while still using wholesome ingredients. So, she started Bowl of Delicious to share her recipes and tricks, and the rest is history!

Bowl of Delicious specializes in "real food for busy people." Elizabeth's goal is to get more people to enjoy the countless benefits of cooking at home even if they think they don't have enough time or money, because these limitations often go hand-in-hand. She believes that cooking at home should help relieve stress, not cause it.

Elizabeth's recipes are quick and easy, made in one-pot or pan, are Instant Pot or Slow Cooker friendly, or easy to make ahead or freeze in bulk. They're usually budget-conscious and family friendly, and don't ever use unhealthy, processed ingredients as a shortcut. In her personal life, she tries to stick to the 80-20 rule when it comes to eating healthy, whole foods, because she couldn't live without the occasional Reese's Peanut Butter Cup or cheap pizza take-out!

While Elizabeth doesn't teach high school anymore, she's still busy in a different kind of way, with being a mom and running a business. She loves that the blog enables her to continue to "teach" and help other people who struggle with cooking at home find success and joy in it!

Anjali Shah is creator of The Picky Eater food blog, where she shares her passion for delicious food and her desire to make healthy eating easy, tasty and fun.

Anjali is a food writer, published author, board certified health coach, nutritionist, mom of two, and an advocate for healthy, clean eating for individuals and families.

Her work has garnered nationwide attention and has been featured on Oprah.com, Women's Health, Cooking Light, Reader's Digest, CNN, Food Network, SELF, Glamour, BuzzFeed, Huffington Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Whole Foods, SHAPE, and at Kaiser Permanente.

Anjali grew up a "whole wheat" girl, but married a "white bread" kind of guy. Hoping to prove that nutritious food could in fact be delicious and desirable, she taught herself how to cook and successfully transformed her husband's eating habits from a diet of frozen pizzas and Taco Bell to her healthy, yet flavorful recipes made with simple, wholesome ingredients.

Anjali's programs are focused on teaching individuals and families how to make healthy choices and pick the right foods at the grocery store for either weight loss or overall wellness and maintenance.

After becoming a mom, Anjali expanded her programs to include strategies and techniques to combat picky eating in kids of all ages. Anjali started The Picky Eater in 2012 to make healthy food accessible, tasty, easy to make at home, and picky-eater proof.

Meeta Arora is the author, recipe developer and food photographer behind the Piping Pot Curry blog, where she shares quick and easy recipes made using the instant pot and other gadgets in the modern kitchen.

Meeta is a former product specialist by profession and a foodie at heart. She strongly believes that each one of us has a chef inside us; we just need some inspiration to explore the ingredients and create great food.

Meeta grew up in Mumbai, a melting pot for people from all over India and a place where food defines culture. There she learned to cook from her mom, a wonderful cook who made the effort to pass down her love for cooking to her daughter.

Meeta shares recipes for a variety of cuisines from all around the world but Indian food has always been closest to her heart.Meeta currently lives in California with her husband and beautiful daughter.

Chandice Probst is the bubbly personality behind This Vivacious Life.

Chandice is a food and entertaining blogger and the co-author of Gluten-Free on a Budget.

Chandice's work has been featured in print and online industry publications, most notably Mingle Magazine, Women's World, and Kara's Party Ideas.

As someone with celiac disease and a degree in health science, she has led the charge in hosting celiac awareness nights with MLB and NBA teams around the nation, raising money for research.

While she loves to cook and entertain, Chandice loves being a wife and mother most. Learn more about Chandice at This Vivacious Life.

Sam Merritt is the creator behind the food blog Sugar Spun Run, where she specializes in sharing sweet and simple dessert recipes from scratch, with the occasional savory comfort food mixed in.

Although Sam has been baking as far back as she can remember, she works hard to ensure that bakers of all skill levels will find success when they bake a Sugar Spun Run recipe. Each recipe is carefully tested and perfected before Sam shares them on her website.

Sugar Spun Run desserts have been featured on a number of websites including TLC, Better Homes & Gardens, and People. Sam has also contributed to online magazines such as Country Living, Woman's Day, and Parade.

Before she became a full time food blogger, Sam worked as a research coordinator at a hospital. She currently lives in Maryland with her husband and their three dogs.

Leah Hall and her husband, Jay, are co-creators of Gastronom.com, where they blog about "libations and spirited travel."

Jay and Leah started the Gastronom in 2012 and soon found their niche by focusing on spirits and mixology. The Halls love cooking at home, swimming in their pool, travel and of course, cocktails!

Jay and Leah love to entertain and believe that food and drink not only nourish us but feed our souls, as well! They are all about local culinary scenes, unique cocktail ingredients and spirited travel.

Gastronom's recipes have been featured on liquor.com, feedfeed and Drizly.

The Halls have grown their blog to be Leah's full time job since 2016. They love to share their cocktail recipes and hope people use them to make an ordinary day a special day!

Jay and Leah Hall have been married almost 14 years and live in Omaha, Nebraska with their two boys.

Isabel Orozco-Moore is the recipe developer, photographer and content creator at Isabel Eats, a food blog all about easy Mexican recipes for home cooks.

Isabel inspires others with her real life experiences in the kitchen and gives tips and tutorials so others can enjoy a little more Mexican spice in their lives, too! She started her blog as a hobby and personal outlet in 2015 and grew it into a full-time business in October 2017.

Isabel's recipes and photos have been featured on sites like The Kitchn, Good Housekeeping, Buzzfeed, Delish, Self, The Huffington Post and MSN.

Isabel is 31 years old, lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma with her husband and two cats and is a proud first-generation Mexican-American.

Loreto and Nicoletta Nardelli are the creative couple behind Sugar Love Spices, the blog where they celebrate their Italian heritage and share their love of food, photography and travel.

Loreto is Canadian of Italian descent and Nicoletta, born and raised in Rome, Italy, is now Canadian by marriage. Sugar Love Spices is the diary of a bustling kitchen where Loreto and Nicoletta combine their passions for savory, sweet and a bit of spice.

The couple shares recipes from their favorite cookbooks and blogs, along with original creations and techniques from their kitchen that include musings on ingredients, ethical farming, beautiful people, great utensils and their experiences with restaurants and travel.

Their love of local organic producers is what defines the couple's way of life and a respect for the treatment of plants and animals. They also believe in the energy you put into your cooking.

While not professional chefs or photographers, Loreto and Nicoletta love food and photography (and travel), very very much.