Not A Single Fork

Food is forgiving…don’t overthink it.

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KISS…keep it simple, stupid.

If there’s any takeaway from this episode’s guest, it’s don’t complicate things (especially with two little boys in the mix!)

Food blogger and kitchen enthusiast, Daisi Owens created My Stir Crazy Kitchen (https://www.instagram.com/mystircrazykitchen/) as an outlet for her love of food and cooking even when she has to rush through meal preparation and feeding her kids. It is actually her love of food and cooking that drives her to make those special memories as often as possible. Memories shared with her mother were mostly limited to fast (not necessarily fast food) meals. Daisi’s mom was a single mom and like many single moms, she was trying to make ends meet (working several jobs) and keep food on the table. Speed was often the deciding factor for meals and as Daisi looks back on it, she missed having those moments with her mom. Nowadays, Daisi’s mom has plenty of time to cook and enjoy family time something that Daisi takes full advantage of, “My mom is a great cook!”

Growing up, Daisi also spent a lot of time with her grandmother (who we discovered along the way was really her great-grandmother). It was here that she thinks her love for food and cooking began. Her grandmother would let her do “anything”. She could bake cookies and bread, make clothes from fabric scraps and never have to clean up the mess. The perfect indulgent grandmother, right?! And, she made some very special chicken and noodles. We won’t divulge the secret, we’ll let Daisi do that.

Here are some other highlights from this episode:

05:59 - Burger Street is the best

06:52 - Her childhood food world

09:26 - Daisi’s Food Story

11:57 - The famous chicken and noodles

14:54 - What’s ahead on her blog

Please enjoy our interview with Daisi Owens.

We hope you enjoyed this interview with Daisi Owens. we definitely did! Follow her on Instagram @mystircrazykitchen and see her beautiful food pictures, her kids and even some videos. Click through here (https://www.facebook.com/MyStirCrazyKitchen/) to find her on Facebook. And, check out her super fun website (http://mystircrazykitchen.com/)! Keep an eye out for Daisi…she’s a frequent contributor to Tulsa Kids and watch her cook up some fun on the News on 6.

Our next guest is someone who works with us and we're so happy to have her with us! Shaylea Morgan teaches our kids classes and let me tell you, she is a fan favorite!

Our kids classes have really taken off since she's come aboard. She admits she stalked us for about a year before we started hiring for the kids position. Now that's dedication!

We had so much fun talking with Shaylea.And, what about you? Do you have a food story? We'd love to hear it. Share it in the comments below and more likely than not, you'll hear it in one of our episodes.And, in case you haven't heard, the kitchen and our hands-on classes are back up and running. We are wearing masks and now Tulsa has a mask mandate as well as WalMart,

KISS…keep it simple, stupid.

If there’s any takeaway from this episode’s guest, it’s don’t complicate things (especially with two little boys in the mix!)

Food blogger and kitchen enthusiast, Daisi Owens created My Stir Crazy Kitchen (https://www.instagram.com/mystircrazykitchen/) as an outlet for her love of food and cooking even when she has to rush through meal preparation and feeding her kids. It is actually her love of food and cooking that drives her to make those special memories as often as possible. Memories shared with her mother were mostly limited to fast (not necessarily fast food) meals. Daisi’s mom was a single mom and like many single moms, she was trying to make ends meet (working several jobs) and keep food on the table. Speed was often the deciding factor for meals and as Daisi looks back on it, she missed having those moments with her mom. Nowadays, Daisi’s mom has plenty of time to cook and enjoy family time something that Daisi takes full advantage of, “My mom is a great cook!”

Growing up, Daisi also spent a lot of time with her grandmother (who we discovered along the way was really her great-grandmother). It was here that she thinks her love for food and cooking began. Her grandmother would let her do “anything”. She could bake cookies and bread, make clothes from fabric scraps and never have to clean up the mess. The perfect indulgent grandmother, right?! And, she made some very special chicken and noodles. We won’t divulge the secret, we’ll let Daisi do that.

Here are some other highlights from this episode:

05:59 - Burger Street is the best

06:52 - Her childhood food world

09:26 - Daisi’s Food Story

11:57 - The famous chicken and noodles

14:54 - What’s ahead on her blog

Please enjoy our interview with Daisi Owens.

We hope you enjoyed this interview with Daisi Owens. we definitely did! Follow her on Instagram @mystircrazykitchen and see her beautiful food pictures, her kids and even some videos. Click through here (https://www.facebook.com/MyStirCrazyKitchen/) to find her on Facebook. And, check out her super fun website (http://mystircrazykitchen.com/)! Keep an eye out for Daisi…she’s a frequent contributor to Tulsa Kids and watch her cook up some fun on the News on 6.

Our next guest is someone who works with us and we're so happy to have her with us! Shaylea Morgan teaches our kids classes and let me tell you, she is a fan favorite!

Our kids classes have really taken off since she's come aboard. She admits she stalked us for about a year before we started hiring for the kids position. Now that's dedication!

We had so much fun talking with Shaylea.And, what about you? Do you have a food story? We'd love to hear it. Share it in the comments below and more likely than not, you'll hear it in one of our episodes.And, in case you haven't heard, the kitchen and our hands-on classes are back up and running. We are wearing masks and now Tulsa has a mask mandate as well as WalMart,

KISS…keep it simple, stupid.

If there’s any takeaway from this episode’s guest, it’s don’t complicate things (especially with two little boys in the mix!)

Food blogger and kitchen enthusiast, Daisi Owens created My Stir Crazy Kitchen as an outlet for her love of food and cooking even when she has to rush through meal preparation and feeding her kids. It is actually her love of food and cooking that drives her to make those special memories as often as possible, that she feels were a little lacking from her childhood. Daisi’s mom was a single mom and like many single moms, she was trying to make ends meet (working several jobs) and keep food on the table. Speed was often the deciding factor for meals and as Daisi looks back on it, she missed having those moments with her mom. Nowadays, Daisi’s mom has plenty of time to cook and enjoy family time something that Daisi takes full advantage of, “My mom is a great cook!”

Growing up, Daisi also spent a lot of time with her grandmother (who we discovered along the way was really her great-grandmother). It was here that she thinks her love for food and cooking began. Her grandmother would let her do “anything”. She could bake cookies and bread, make clothes from fabric scraps and never have to clean up the mess. The perfect indulgent grandmother, right?! And, she made some very special chicken and noodles. We won’t divulge the secret, we’ll let Daisi do that.

Food is friendship.

Interestingly enough, our next interviewee has been the only person to share this sentiment with us. It is a sentiment that we echo wholeheartedly and in fact, could go so far as to call it our “mantra”. In food we find a common place and Lord knows, we need a common place right now.

Roy Johnson is a storyteller who fashions words into vivid, “as if you were there” experiences. Experiences that neither you nor I will likely ever be a part of. An accomplished journalist whose credits include Sports Illustrated, the New York Times, Men’s Fitness and any number of TV appearances, most recently as part of the docu-series, The Last Dance that chronicled the rise of Michael Jordan, Roy has defied tradition.

After 30+ years in New York, Roy now lives and writes in Birmingham, Alabama. Our interview, as a consequence, was done via computer with us in the kitchen studio and Roy in his home kitchen (one of his favorite spots). He loves to cook and views it as another creative outlet for himself and likes to see that in others. When in a restaurant, he is comfortable asking the chef to simply create something for him. He has also ended up with things on his plate that he wasn’t quite sure that he ordered.

Roy Johnson has been my friend for 50 years. Yes, I said it, 50, count ‘em years. Until I did the math, it certainly didn’t seem like it could possibly be that long but there it is.

Roy and I went to school together. It was the end of the 60’s when we met and he was and still is one of the bravest people I know. An African-American in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he chose to attend a basically all-white school albeit a fairly progressive one (but not as progressive as I thought). At that time, Holland Hall was known as the “pink” school in the hills as in “pink-o” and if you’re too young to know that reference…its meaning today is: a person who holds advanced liberal or moderately radical political or economic views; back in the 60’s and early 70’s, it simply meant, communistic. I think if my mother had known that (maybe she did but I doubt it), she would have yanked me out of there so fast it would make your head explode. I include this as a way of saying, yes, at school, we tried our best to be progressive with open hearts, minds and opportunities but we were still immersed in the white privilege that exists today.

So I’m quite certain only those very close to Roy understood the challenges he faced at that time. I know I didn’t understand and he was my friend. But he never allowed the long hours and the hidden and not so hidden prejudice and racism to get in his way or hold him back. As soon as he graduated, he headed to Stanford University and never looked back.

Roy took the road less traveled by, and yes, that has made all the difference.

Here are some of the highlights from our interview not to be missed:

07:05 - Grilling with the best of them

10:24 - I was a fat, little kid

12:12 - It was not easy to be the editor of Men’s Fitness magazine

14:06 - His guilty pleasure

17:20 - The long drive

21:15 - Tell Me A Food Story (and it’s an extraordinary one)

27:35 - Is there anything you won’t eat?

Food is friendship.

Interestingly enough, our next interviewee has been the only person to share this sentiment with us. It is a sentiment that we echo wholeheartedly and in fact, could go so far as to call it our “mantra”. In food we find a common place and Lord knows, we need a common place right now.

Roy Johnson is a storyteller who fashions words into vivid, “as if you were there” experiences. Experiences that neither you nor I will likely ever be a part of. An accomplished journalist whose credits include Sports Illustrated, the New York Times, Men’s Fitness and any number of TV appearances, most recently as part of the docu-series, The Last Dance that chronicled the rise of Michael Jordan, Roy has defied tradition.

After 30+ years in New York, Roy now lives and writes in Birmingham, Alabama. Our interview, as a consequence, was done via computer with us in the kitchen studio and Roy in his home kitchen (one of his favorite spots). He loves to cook and views it as another creative outlet for himself and likes to see that in others. When in a restaurant, he is comfortable asking the chef to simply create something for him. He has also ended up with things on his plate that he wasn’t quite sure that he ordered.

Roy Johnson has been my friend for 50 years. Yes, I said it, 50, count ‘em years. Until I did the math, it certainly didn’t seem like it could possibly be that long but there it is.

Roy and I went to school together. It was the end of the 60’s when we met and he was and still is one of the bravest people I know. An African-American in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he chose to attend a basically all-white school albeit a fairly progressive one (but not as progressive as I thought). At that time, Holland Hall was known as the “pink” school in the hills as in “pink-o” and if you’re too young to know that reference…its meaning today is: a person who holds advanced liberal or moderately radical political or economic views; back in the 60’s and early 70’s, it simply meant, communistic. I think if my mother had known that (maybe she did but I doubt it), she would have yanked me out of there so fast it would make your head explode. I include this as a way of saying, yes, at school, we tried our best to be progressive with open hearts, minds and opportunities but we were still immersed in the white privilege that exists today.

So I’m quite certain only those very close to Roy understood the challenges he faced at that time. I know I didn’t understand and he was my friend. But he never allowed the long hours and the hidden and not so hidden prejudice and racism to get in his way or hold him back. As soon as he graduated, he headed to Stanford University and never looked back.

Roy took the road less traveled by, and yes, that has made all the difference.

Here are some of the highlights from our interview not to be missed:

07:05 - Grilling with the best of them

10:24 - I was a fat, little kid

12:12 - It was not easy to be the editor of Men’s Fitness magazine

14:06 - His guilty pleasure

17:20 - The long drive

21:15 - Tell Me A Food Story (and it’s an extraordinary one)

27:35 - Is there anything you won’t eat?

Food is friendship.

Interestingly enough, our next interviewee has been the only person to share this sentiment with us. It is a sentiment that we echo wholeheartedly and in fact, could go so far as to call it our “mantra”. In food we find a common place and Lord knows, we need a common place right now.

Roy Johnson is a storyteller who fashions words into vivid, “as if you were there” experiences. Experiences that neither you nor I will likely ever be a part of. An accomplished journalist whose credits include Sports Illustrated, the New York Times, Men’s Fitness and any number of TV appearances, most recently as part of the docu-series, The Last Dance that chronicled the rise of Michael Jordan, Roy has defied tradition.

After 30+ years in New York, Roy now lives and writes in Birmingham, Alabama. Our interview, as a consequence, was done via computer with us in the kitchen studio and Roy in his home kitchen (one of his favorite spots). He loves to cook and views it as another creative outlet for himself and likes to see that in others. When in a restaurant, he is comfortable asking the chef to simply create something for him. He has also ended up with things on his plate that he wasn’t quite sure that he ordered.

Roy Johnson has been my friend for 50 years. Yes, I said it, 50, count ‘em years. Until I did the math, it certainly didn’t seem like it could possibly be that long but there it is.

Roy and I went to school together. It was the end of the 60’s when we met and he was and still is one of the bravest people I have ever known. An African-American in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he chose to attend a basically all-white school albeit a fairly progressive one (but not as progressive as I thought). At that time, Holland Hall was known as the “pink” school in the hills as in “pink-o” and if you’re too young to know that reference…its meaning today is: a person who holds advanced liberal or moderately radical political or economic views; back in the 60’s and early 70’s, it simply meant, communistic. I think if my mother had known that (maybe she did but I doubt it), she would have yanked me out of there so fast it would make your head explode. I include this as a way of saying, yes, at school, we tried our best to be progressive with open hearts, minds and opportunities but we were still immersed in the white privilege that exists today.

So I’m quite certain only those very close to Roy understood the challenges he faced at that time. He never allowed the long hours and the hidden and not so hidden prejudice and racism to get in his way or hold him back. As soon as he graduated, he headed to Stanford University and never looked back.

Roy took the road less traveled by, and yes, that has made all the difference.

Here are some of the highlights from our interview not to be missed:

07:05 - Grilling with the best of them

10:24 - I was a fat, little kid

12:12 - It was not easy to be the editor of Men’s Fitness magazine

14:06 - His guilty pleasure

17:20 - The long drive

21:15 - Tell Me A Food Story (and it’s an extraordinary one)

27:35 - Is there anything you won’t eat?

Please enjoy our interview with Roy S Johnson.

“I just want people to cook…”

“I just want people to cook…”

“I just want people to cook…”

We couldn’t agree more with our next guest - food writer, recipe developer, food stylist and food magazine junkie, Judy Allen.

We spoke with Judy on a very stormy day in July where we lost the Internet right before her interview (we were social distancing via computer), Siri interrupted and Judy’s phone rang twice. She declared at one point, “This is the one thing I had to do today!”. Well, Judy, we are certainly glad we worked through the technology and you were able to make time for us because it was a terrific interview.

Listeners, you are in for a treat! Not just the funny things that happened but Judy has a wonderful story to tell and stands as a a model of following your dream and making it happen.

Before I end up recounting the entire story, let me hit you with some highlights to listen for during the interview and you can hear for yourself.

05:47 - The Martha Stewart story begins

10:00 - What Judy is up to these days

14:40 - Listen for an unexpected guilty food pleasure and her family’s love of cereal

20:20 - Judy’s Food Story

23:35 - What food means to her now and her bread-baking Dad