02/02/2026
As some of you may already know, I’m currently training to become a retreat chef. Cooking has always been a passion of mine and in our house growing up, it was my Dads love language.
As a trained Chef himself, from the age of 19, he trained and worked in kitchens all his life, until my big sis came along and he gave up the long hours, split shifts and low pay, to get a ‘regular!’ job at the Steelworks.
Yet his love of cooking never faded. (I’ll have to hunt out the picture of the huge, full salmon we had on Christmas Day when I was around 6/7 😅)
Watching him, learning from him, being in the kitchen with him and his love of food, made me into a ‘food is my Love Language’ kind gal, too.
Mam recently gave me my dads old apron and to say I feel an even deeper connection to him and his deep love whilst wearing it, makes it all the more special that I am learning how to do this and express this loving care and attention on women’s retreats.
I think he would be pretty proud of that. 🥰
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