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Episode 055: Making Cooking Uncomplicated with Jenna Kranz
I couldn’t be more thrilled to introduce you to my dear friend Jenna Kranz! I first met Jenna not long after moving to North Carolina. She interviewed me for a job actually to help her bake granola for her granola business! You’ll hear more about that in our episode! We’ve included her delicious granola 3 different times in our boxes. Now Jenna has shifted gears and shut down her granola business to pursue her passion - a nonprofit called Uncomplicated Kitchen. She teaches weekly classes on how to make simple food with simple ingredients - especially using local foods! Because of the coronavirus situation, Jenna has improvised and made a YouTube channel doing what she does best: teaching others to make amazing food.
Jenna is a wife, a mother to a toddler, and a food business owner who knows what it's like to have to to have to get a meal on the table in a half hour, sometimes with no plan and few ingredients. But with a bit of creativity, some basic pantry staples, and self-taught culinary skills, she’s always fed my family. Her goal is to help her students learn to do the same - to feed their families nutritious and delicious meals, even if they just had the basics. She wants to help students break free from the doldrums/inconvenience/intimidation/budget constraints of home cooking and find joy, happiness, and confidence in meal planning, grocery shopping, and meal preparation.
Jenna is a whole bunch of fun and I know you will love her just as much as I do! Enjoy my conversation with Jenna.
What we talked about in this episode:
—How we met when Jenna interviewed me for a job!
—Her story of starting a granola business and moving it with her husband to Sylva, NC.
—The transition of baking granola to her passion for cooking and starting a nonprofit all because a friend wanted to know how to make beets taste delicious!
—All about her amazing cooking classes which are now online due to COVID-19.
—Her best recipe and meal plan tip in one that she calls “emergency food”.
—Why saying “no” is both of our favorite ways to practice self-care.
Book mentioned: “Deceptively Delicious” by Jessica Seinfeld - https://www.amazon.com/Deceptively-Delicious-Simple-Secrets-Eating/dp/006176793X
Find Jenna:
Website: https://www.uncomplicatedkitchen.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uncomplicatedkitchen
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uncomplicated_kitchen/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCadWqdM38ZBlUAVX_lZws4A
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By Jenn Collins
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I couldn’t be more thrilled to introduce you to my dear friend Jenna Kranz! I first met Jenna not long after moving to North Carolina. She interviewed me for a job actually to help her bake granola for her granola business! You’ll hear more about that in our episode! We’ve included her delicious granola 3 different times in our boxes. Now Jenna has shifted gears and shut down her granola business to pursue her passion - a nonprofit called Uncomplicated Kitchen. She teaches weekly classes on how to make simple food with simple ingredients - especially using local foods! Because of the coronavirus situation, Jenna has improvised and made a YouTube channel doing what she does best: teaching others to make amazing food.
Jenna is a wife, a mother to a toddler, and a food business owner who knows what it's like to have to to have to get a meal on the table in a half hour, sometimes with no plan and few ingredients. But with a bit of creativity, some basic pantry staples, and self-taught culinary skills, she’s always fed my family. Her goal is to help her students learn to do the same - to feed their families nutritious and delicious meals, even if they just had the basics. She wants to help students break free from the doldrums/inconvenience/intimidation/budget constraints of home cooking and find joy, happiness, and confidence in meal planning, grocery shopping, and meal preparation.
Jenna is a whole bunch of fun and I know you will love her just as much as I do! Enjoy my conversation with Jenna.
What we talked about in this episode:
—How we met when Jenna interviewed me for a job!
—Her story of starting a granola business and moving it with her husband to Sylva, NC.
—The transition of baking granola to her passion for cooking and starting a nonprofit all because a friend wanted to know how to make beets taste delicious!
—All about her amazing cooking classes which are now online due to COVID-19.
—Her best recipe and meal plan tip in one that she calls “emergency food”.
—Why saying “no” is both of our favorite ways to practice self-care.
Book mentioned: “Deceptively Delicious” by Jessica Seinfeld - https://www.amazon.com/Deceptively-Delicious-Simple-Secrets-Eating/dp/006176793X
Find Jenna:
Website: https://www.uncomplicatedkitchen.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uncomplicatedkitchen
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uncomplicated_kitchen/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCadWqdM38ZBlUAVX_lZws4A