Holidays are for connection, entertaintainment, exploring, making memories and FOOD! We did ALL of these on our holiday (plus we won’t mention the bickering 😆) but the food is always a highlight! The healthy eating goes out the window in favour of takeout and pizza at the beach. What does your food diet look like when you’re on holiday?

Welcome to Chef's Kiss, my friends - I'm Krista, The Relationship Chef. This is where food and love come together to keep relationships fresh, fun, and delicious. Here's what to do first: 1. Say HI👋 below. Tell us your name and your favorite dish to share with someone you love. 2. Look around the categories. You'll find cooking classes, tips and techniques, and the community table where you can chat, share recipes, and connect. 3. Jump in! This is your community. The more you post, the tastier it gets. And if you want to take your date nights to a new level... let me plan them for you! Check out our Chef's Kiss date night cooking classes in the classroom. The done-for-you date nights that are fun, easy, and fire up that connection! I'm so excited to have you here from the very beginning. Let's turn up the heat together! Love, Krista XO

I'm obsessed with a number of things (that have had me create my Skool). They are: food, and words. So I came across a Jamie Oliver post about the words he's banned from his staff members using. Then I dug deeper, and found more. Some of them are indeed eeek-inducing. But here's a question: which word do you find a bit, erm, unlovely? I'd sincerely love to know - and I'll add them to my list! Oh, and here's my so-far list: moist crevice rimming gush encrusted, minge (it's a baking term ) flange stuffed gash smeared proper rustic scrummy

Today I made us a pizza for dinner - here’s the good, the bad, and the ugly!! 1. Homemade pizza dough - 1 c flour, 1tsp yeast, 1/2 c water, 1tsp salt etc 2. Plain old canned tomato sauce with two cloves garlic, a lot of Tabasco, some brown sugar, some hot honey 3. 4 slices of bacon chopped up, sautéed with 1/2 a good sized onion. Drained after cooking. 4. Shredded pizza mozzarella in a bag, and a hand full of mini bocconcini Flattened the dough out to about 12-14 inch pizza. Spread the sauce on thickly while hot and this may have been my downfall. Spread the bacon and onions all over. Topped with a layer of mozzarella, not too thick. Then bocconcini. Then a full layer of pepperoni entirely covering the pizza! Heated my pizza stone in a 550° convection oven. It was great but the dough didn’t really cook much on the bottom. The top was crispy and beautiful but the bottom was not great. The combo of the sautéed bacon/onion mixture, the sweet and spicy sauce and the cheese and pep - probably the best pizza I have ever made (if the crust had cooked properly)!! Billy loved it, he agreed the flavour was exceptional!! Good thing it was a thin crust! And didn’t take a picture!!

Not just what’s on the plate —but how it’s made, shared, and experienced together. The pace. The attention. The small moments in between. Sometimes it’s not the food itself, but the feeling around it that stays with you. I’ve been thinking about how the way we experience food often mirrors how we show up in relationships —present, distracted, guarded, or, generous. 👉 I’m sincerely curious:what’s a meal that genuinely shifted how you felt around someone?