Hey, this is Megan. For this week's What We're Cooking and Eating Now episode, I'm joined by my friend and friend of the podcast, Lou Persigan, a little preamble before I introduce Lou. These biweekly episodes are bite-sized digest of what we're actually cooking at home and feeding our families right now.

We share six meal ideas, which you can turn into your own meal plan for next week.

We share links to the specific recipes in our free community where you can also get even more dinner ideas in our weekly meal planning thread.

You can visit didn't I just feed you.com backslash community to join us there.

Lou and I connected over Instagram years ago when he was mostly sharing his son's lunches and in

recently years he's been an active member of our did I just feed you community. Lou shares what

he's cooking and feeding his family's weeknights in real time live live streaming on Twitch, and he's also got a pretty active Discord community as well.

Lou, for what we're cooking and eating now context, will you tell us a little bit more about

your cooking experience and also who you feed every week?

Sure, sure.

Well, thanks for having me.

I consider myself a family cook first and a meal planner second and kind of a meal archivist third. I don't have any formal experience. I do have an expired service certificate. But food has been an anchoring experience. Oh, it's way expired. It's been an anchoring experience in family life since my son was starting

solids and I really kind of caught the bug for cooking. I mainly cook meals for my son, who's seven,

and my partner. And I do that online, like you said on Twitch, about two to four nights a week,

mostly things that come together in like a little over an hour,

if I'm not chatting. And the rest of the week is like short order stuff, leftovers, carry out.

But yeah, I'm cooking about two to four nights a week.

Do you feel like you have a cooking style?

I've tuned into Twitch enough times to feel like you are a good, like, local shopper and also, like, conscientious of what's in your

freezer and in your pantry to use up. Definitely. Vegetables first is how I start my meal planning.

So we go to the market, the Farmer's Market every week. We buy our vegetables and then I do my

meal planning. I don't, a lot of people do it inverse of that. But I will start with the, start with the produce and sort of figure it, produce, then pantry, and then figure it out from there. I usually do meal planning on Saturdays. And that comes together. You know, sometimes it's random. Sometimes it's just like, I'm making pasta tonight and we'll figure it out. But I also know from Twitch that you take requests too. Like sometimes your partner or Cal will ask for something. And you're like, okay, I'm going to figure out a way to put that on this week's meal plan or next week's. Yeah. Yeah. And actually one of the things I'm talking about this week is something that my partner had said, Hey, I really liked that thing that you made a while ago. But I scrolled back through Instagram and was like, where did I, when did I make this?

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