Hi!
I’m Jane Morgan, a recipe developer, personal chef, and virtual cooking class instructor living in Brooklyn. You can learn more about my work and see some of my recipes on my website and Instagram.
I’ll be sending out one newsletter a week with some fun bonus content thrown in. For a peek inside my brain and at what you’ll have access to as a subscriber, keep reading!
New issues of the Recipe Box will hit your inbox every week with a JCFY original recipe. This is where you’ll be finding almost all of my new recipes. The majority of these recipes will be vegetarian-friendly or have recommendations for vegetarian substitutes. They will always be delicious and riffable. The recipes will be accompanied by a playlist, called Pairings, for you to listen and dance to while you cook. This newsletter is very inspired by the recipe boxes I’ve admired from the women in my family. My mom’s recipe box is overflowing with printed recipes, scribbled with her notes that always make things better. My grandma’s is full of handwritten index cards for things like carbonara with bacon and the caramel cookies her childhood pen pal showed her. My great grandma’s is a huge book that I now have called Kitchen Klips, and it’s overflowing with cut-out (mostly Jello or Campbell’s soup-based) recipes from food labels, magazines, and newspapers. I love all recipe boxes, and I’m excited for our virtual one.
Dinner and a Show is a special monthly edition of the newsletter where I recommend a different movie every month and recipes to pair with it. Dinner… and a show! There will be many recipes based on what the characters in the movie actually eat, and others based simply upon how the movie makes me feel. Think: It’s Complicated and croque-monsieurs, or really any Nancy Meyers movie and lemony roast chicken. There will be drink pairings, and there will be fancy popcorn recipes. The movies (and recipes) will always be comforting, and will mostly be romantic comedies.
I’m excited for this newsletter to take on a life of its own, and to build a community of people who feel similarly. Some things to look forward to: merch, group cooking classes, interviews and kitchen tours with other home cooks, open forums, cooking demos, and so much more.
I want this newsletter to be accessible to anyone who is excited about it, so if you would like to subscribe but aren’t currently capable of paying for a subscription, please email or DM me and we will get you all set up, no questions asked. If you’d like to gift someone a subscription, click here. If you’d like to sponsor a stranger’s subscription, please email me at jane@janecooksforyou.com! Thank you so much for being here.
Love,
Jane
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