I See...Love (A Different Road Book 1)
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Authors: Annalisa Nicole
I See…Love
Book One in:
A Different Road Series
by Annalisa Nicole
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Copyright © 2015 by Annalisa Nicole
This book is a written act of fiction. Any and all names, places, or similarities are coincidental. No part of this book may be used, reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any electronic or written form without written permission except for brief quotations for reviews or blogs. This book may only be distributed by Annalisa Nicole, the owner and author of this series.
To my brother
Sean
Since the fifth grade my best friend, Nina St. James and I, have always talked about going into business together. We were determined to always be stuck to each other’s side until the day we died. You know, all for one and one for all. We were going to work, eat, play, and live together, just the two of us. In the fifth grade, we were going to open up a pet store together. We were going to call it Joss and Nina’s Pet Store. Original, I know. We both loved animals and the idea of having them around all the time just made sense. We dreamt of rescuing abandoned kittens and puppies and taking them home to bottle-feed them like we were their mommies. But, we eventually realized that it would probably break our hearts if a dog or a little kitty didn’t get adopted right away. So that idea went out the window.
By middle school, we decided we were going to open a candy store, because let’s face it, who doesn’t love candy. We were going to call it Nina and Joss’s Confections. That summer I was also told that I needed to get seven cavities filled. Seven! All because I loved candy way too much! Well, that venture went out the window, too.
Our junior year of high school, we both took home economics together and discovered how much we both loved to cook and bake. Of course, it was natural that we decided we were going to open our own restaurant. We were going to call it Two Best Friends Restaurant. Well, that’s not what happened either.
After we graduated from high school, we both went to work for a catering company while attending college and decided we would go into the catering and personal chef business. Nina was going for a business degree while I decided college just wasn’t for me. So, I dropped out and started attending culinary school. After Nina graduated from college and I graduated from culinary school, with our parents help, we opened California Chef out of our home, just outside of Malibu. At California Chef, we offer a variety of services ranging from healthy, fresh food in a box delivered to your door, to fully prepped and portioned container meals delivered to your door, or a chef in your kitchen.
Our fresh food in a box is one of our most popular choices. Hand delivered to your front door is a box full of fresh farm to fork ingredients along with everything you need to prep and cook a week’s worth of meals. We even include detailed instructions with step-by-step photos.
The fully prepped and portioned option is a combination of fully assembled fresh and frozen meals with the same detailed cooking directions as our fresh food in a box option. You just take it out of your refrigerator or your freezer and cook it on your stove, your oven, or even on your grill.
Our chef in your kitchen option, which is my personal favorite option, is where either Nina or I come into your home with all of the fresh ingredients, and we prep and/or precook a week’s worth of meals in the clients own kitchen. This is my favorite not only because I get to get out of my home office, but because this is more for the higher end clients and I get to cook in their amazing, kickass kitchens. Seriously, I would die for some of my client’s kitchens. We’re talking luxury, state of the art professional kitchens here. Like a kitchen that I can only ever dream of owning.
Our clients log into their account on our website and choose their desired amount of meals from our preset carefully planned meals. We rotate our meals from a huge library and we are always adding and switching up our recipes to keep things fresh and exciting. We pride ourselves on using ingredients from as many local farmers and ranchers as we can. If it’s in season, it’ll be used in some way, shape, or form in our menu. And in California, the options and the ingredients are seemingly endless.
Our website is Nina’s pride and joy and runs smoother than a baby’s bottom. Each client has complete control over their meals and they are completely customizable. If they don’t like cilantro in their salsa, they can click the button to omit it. Don’t like mushrooms in your spaghetti, click the button. Love capers and want extra in their chicken breast in caper cream sauce, just click add extra. Nina is a tech genius and our website is absolutely amazing. With Nina’s business degree and my mad chef skills, we make one hell of a team. Every day we get to live out our fifth grade dreams, well, except we’re not pet store owners like we originally thought.