21/05/2026
Episode 3: “Where do I start from?” 😳
Chef…
where do I start from? How them dey even do am?😂
That was the exact question I asked my head chef the day she told me to make club sandwich.
If patience was a person, it would definitely be my head chef 😭 because I ruined almost all the bread during my first and second attempts.
The fear that used to catch me when it got to cutting the bread was not here o 😂
Because one wrong cut and everything you’ve been trying to arrange neatly would scatter.
But now?
Club sandwich is nothing to me anymore 😌
A few months after working as a kitchen assistant, I already had the urge to leave because I felt underpaid. I believed I could earn more.
So I got another job.
Not as a kitchen assistant this time… but as a cook.
Yeah — a private cook for a family.
The funny thing is, I had no experience as a private cook, but in my mind I thought:
“Since I already know restaurant cooking, this one should be easy.”
Omo… I was wrong 😭
My boss then was a vegetarian, and I knew absolutely nothing about vegetarian food.
That experience stretched me in ways I didn’t expect because it was a completely different side of cooking.
But I’m grateful for that woman till today.
Even though she knew I wasn’t good at vegan meals yet, instead of firing me immediately like many people would have done…
She paid my full tuition fee to culinary school.
The day she told me she would be letting me go, I was honestly sad.
But then she said:
“You’ll be going to a proper culinary school.”
Tears mixed with joy on my face that day.
I had always planned to attend culinary school someday, but it wasn’t at the top of my list then.
So hearing someone I barely knew offer to pay my full tuition felt unreal to me.
In that moment, I realized:
If I had left the kitchen too early, I might never have gotten that opportunity.
And till today, I’m still grateful because I never imagined a stranger would believe in me that much.
So I entered culinary school…
And trust me 😭 culinary school came with its own challenges too 😂
But we move.
To be continued…