Welcome to cannabis school. I'm your host Jessie Angeles and
I'm Brandon Elder and we're here to talk to you about everything
pertaining to cannabis from debate flower Edibles strains
and everything in between. All right, thanks for tuning in.
Thanks for joining us the day. We actually have Chef Jennifer
film Lee joining us. Oh, that sounds pretty yummy,
and not in an appropriate way. This definitely sounds yummy,
she's a chef who does Private events catered events and she's
recently been more into cannabis infused inners Jen.
Why don't you tell us a little bit about what?
It is that you do. Well, I am technically, I guess
the term is a personal chef. I go privately into people's
homes. I cook small events and dinner
parties. And I just create memorable
experiences that you don't have to go to a restaurant or some
crazy place to get what. Yeah, that's cool.
So when did you start doing going from just doing
experiences to cannabis experiences?
So I would say when cannabis became recreationally legal in
California, I started doing the private dinners.
There were a couple of like when it was medically legal.
They were a couple of like little tester events and kind of
group things when everyone had a medical card and that was kind
of the safe and easy way to get around some legate legal
realities. But I would say goodness, how
long ago was it? I think 2005 when it went
Recreationally legal in California and it just feels
like forever because I've grown up with cannabis my whole life.
I mean whether it was like something when I was a teenager
or in college, it just became a part of my business in the last
few years. And at first, it was something
that people didn't really know existed.
And now in the last like year and a half, I would say my
business is almost 50/50 cannabis infused events and on
infused events. So why don't we go back and take
a step back? As you talked about, you've been
around cannabis your entire life.
Tell us about, I mean, when you say your entire life, most of us
are like, you know, since my 20s when I started smoking it, but
here's goes back a little bit further, right?
Yeah. I'm a born and raised Southern
California natives. So like the first house I ever
lived in was a block off of the ocean in a part of San Diego
called Pacific Beach. And yeah, it was a lot of
leftover hippies and And I'm potheads.
And so, you know, my babysitter smoked weed, I hate to out my
godfather. But yes, I could smell coming
from another room before we would have Passover dinner.
It was just one of those things that was always around.
Like it was never one of those things that, like, blatantly was
discussed. But it was like, Jen that's not
for you, but adults can have fun.
So it was when you were like 14, 15, you were making your first
Edibles or were you doing that long before then?
Honestly, I made my first Edibles at like 14 or 15.
I so, I had a girlfriend of mine whose parents owned like a
professional Mexican bakery and one night, you know, after the
bakery shut down, We snuck in the ovens were still on.
We threw a bit of weed into a batch of brownie, mix and tossed
it into the oven. And that was my very first
attempt at making A pot brownie and I have since learned that
that was the dumbest thing I could have ever done.
And so did you get high at all off of that experience?
Honestly I think we more like choked on the disgustingness of
the brownies and like felt like we were hired because we wanted
to be, I feel like that was my first experience with getting
high to where I felt like this is what High people act like
right and then I'll looking back at my.
I would never ever do that ever. I don't know why I even hi.
It also cracks me up because I feel like the stuff that was
around when I was like 14 or 15 verse.
Has the stuff that I'm around. Now, like the high is two
totally different worlds. I just got a bucket of like
homegrown schwag that I can use for, like, props and things of
that nature and my girlfriend. And I were taking a bunch of
pictures and she works in the Cannabis content, creation,
space, and we had smoked a bowl of something like really nice.
But we like packed a bowl on the table of this like what we
called, our prop weed and one of us had to like light the bomb to
get it to smoke and instantly. We Oh, I will never do that
again. I just dying for that.
Yeah, it's like the stuff that we grew up on like yeah, I'm
sure it got us high but if he thought about it now if we even
smoked a bowl of that stuff would be like wow thanks for the
Tic-Tac. Oh yeah, I remember there was
this one bag of probably just schwag is what it was called.
Really. Just the shit at the bottom of
the bag. But not really good quality
either. And I Remember, going this gave
you like headache. It was not that great but this
was probably 18. It's been a hot minute.
So guys it's drastically changed in quality so probably because
you were smoking oregano. That's why I was like you know,
wasn't Utah. So this smells like this,
Italian restaurant, I don't know why.
But that explains a headache popped into my head when he said
it was just like the shake at the bottom of the bag.
I was like, yep. Someone's Soldier.
Some dried oregano, right? That would have been really bad
luckily that wasn't my first experience buying it, so I had
actually seen quality stuff before that that was just bad
and it kind of makes me laugh because I feel like I was
prepared for California weed because when I went to college
like as much as I went to a culinary school, we were also
located near a very high-end Ivy League school that had a
Horticultural program. Basically, they were selling
weed and Mason jars, like glass jars before, you know, I before
it was legal and so, you know, they wanted to preserve the
terpenes and keep all the Kief and keep all the nugs together.
And I was like, you mean, it doesn't come in a plastic bag or
like, rolled up in some plastic wrap and that's something like
hi. Hi.
Great exciting. Yeah.
It's just like, oh, make sure the pinkies up when you smoke
this weed. I?
Yeah, I mean they were Maybe we'd kids.
What are they going to do? Sell you it like an old
cigarette packet? Like know they're going to go
out and get you a bougie jar and be like here.
Here's your high-grade that all hand-blown.
Here you go bro. What?
Yeah. Only the quality recycled.
Hand-blown glass locally sourced of course.
Yeah. But the air bubbles in there
just so you know, it was handmade.
Hmm. Oh, that's totally be the next
thing at Woody Harrelson's. Dispensary in l.a. probably
Probably I mean from early on you know we got the brownies and
brownies in turn out too great. So what started to pull you
towards culinary or is that always been there?
so for me, I won Food my whole life.
Like Foods always been a passion and if there's anything that
like I can cook or eat, I will and really for me what it was is
I started playing with kind of trying out this new world of
cannabis whether it was buying like Edibles or topicals or
smoke. Oh balls.
And then I threw my back out and I did some really bad stuff my
back and I really needed you know this stuff medicinally and
the best way to get a really high dose of cannabis into your
body is Really inedible, you know, it's going to go in there.
It's going to linger for a really long time.
It's going to give you that full body effect and you don't have
to smoke for six hours to get the same effect.
And that was really where it started.
For me was like, I started making these homemade Edibles at
a hash and then because I'm a chef, I was like, okay, well
it's got to taste good so I started making burnt orange and
hash caramels and that was kind of like yeah.
The idea of kind of pairing that burnt, Smoky flavor of hash with
kind of like The burnt orange Aromas, with the caramel sauce
and so that was kind of the first for a.
And then as I kind of started playing with it, it became okay.
Well, you know, how can I create experience with this?
So I had some friends who let me test out a dinner party on them.
And once I did the first one, I was hooked.
That's awesome recently. You've been doing stand-up, does
your cannabis Inspire, your stand-up comedy?
Routines? Yes, there's actually a B,
within my stand-up comedy routine entirely about where I
am with cannabis and kind of cannabis in my life.
It's really interesting to me that, you know, I did this whole
routine the other day and like, you know, the everyone was kind
of chill and then I got into the kind of cannabis part of it and
I was like, yeah, you know, I've even been like a contestant on a
cooking show called shop for 20 and the entire crowd screamed.
And I was like, oh, wow. So it's not just like
Millennials and like my My age and now it's baby but also, it's
everybody who smokes weed got it.
Welcome to California. Welcome to everywhere.
And as so many their use cannabis or Elevate themselves.
Yeah, I was just in Chicago it was great to see like where
cannabis is going out there in the midwest because it's like
you know it's legal in Chicago. It's legal in Detroit and like I
feel like because of that it's slowly making its way like my
friends, a mailman. Indiana.
And he's like, yep, I go to Chicago once a week.
Pick up all my stuff and come home.
Oh that's super funny. I was just reading that
Kentucky's wanting to open up as well and have cannabis.
So I know there's quite a few through the Midwest that are
adult use or at least medical so it makes me very very happy.
It's one of the reasons why I'm one of my goals for.
Well, it was my goal for 2020 to but now I think it's got to be
shifted to 2023 is to put put up a notch.
Online cannabis cooking class where whether you're in a
medically or recreational or non-legal State.
You could still take the class. Oh, wow.
Like, kind of like a, you to me, type, of course, like they can
go through, learn the basics and then learn about infusion, all
these different things and then different dishes, they could
make. Yep.
So the the way that I have it formatted right now is like
section one would be how to D carb and how to infuse and just
basically how to infuse a couple different types of oil, how to
infuse an alcohol and then From there, it would be kind of a 101
on, you know, the things I've learned on throwing a dinner
party. So some little tidbits that you
should know, and then it would go into a section that would
have an entire menu for a dinner party with recipes at school.
Are you doing that with your Thursday like live?
Are you still doing your Thursday live Instagram?
Sessions cooking sessions, I had to kind of put them on.
Hold life, life. Did not allow me to go on
Instagram every single Thursday which It was a beginning.
So now I do, I try to go up Let's just be honest I go up
when I can to do an Instagram live.
I just did one on Monday with a friend of mine in La.
We did some stuff on some special mushroom Truffles and
how to make chocolate truffles using special mushrooms.
But yeah, I've been trying to do all of my Instagram, I GTV
educational stuff. That's only on my Instagram
Channel. I do have a patreon page that I
have been uploading recipes to. And so really, the idea is going
to be I'm too kind of compiled all those people together into
an email list and send out a direct email that says, hey I'm
beta testing this class. And the first series is going to
be how to use an air fryer to make cannabis infusions and then
we're going to kind of slowly wait make our way through that's
way cool and that's awesome because she's actually focused
in like our San Diego LA area which we have tons of listeners
but the online courses, the online sessions you All of our
listeners around the world are able to tune in and check out
all of those classes. Yeah, that's what I that's what
I honestly love about. What the internet is doing for
us. Is that, you know, you no longer
have to be that person who's interested in a unique and
interesting item just in your area.
You know, I have a very good friend of mine who currently
lives in South Africa and we've been trying for like two years
now for me to get together a dinner in South Africa.
It's just a darn freaking plane tickets to get out there like
Grand roof. That's really expensive.
It's, you know, from California, you have to go pretty much
across the entire United States and then keep on going.
You never know. The things I get was like, I was
looking at. It was the last time I looked?
I think I looked about three months ago.
Yeah. And I think the cheapest one I
could find before taxes. Before you put all your luggage
before. All that was somewhere around
like 6200. That's insane.
What the hell? Yeah, that's if you got cheaper,
it may have gotten better. Like I like, I'm one of those
people that I definitely smoke weed at night and then look
online at things. So that's what I meant.
Good idea. No, that's okay.
So we're doing the Infuse dinners.
I'm really intrigued about this online course.
I think that's super. I mean, it's a shame that has to
be pushed out. I mean such as life, but I could
see so many people being able to take advantage of that because
we get asked that The time like, you know what's your favorite
type of edible? What infused meals?
Do you make? Brandon is way more into it than
I am, but I being able to come at the level that you're at, I
can't help but feel that you probably have some favorite
dishes that you just love to make.
And and consume, I'm just one of those people that want to have a
horrible, sweet tooth. So anything that I can make that
combines cannabis and sugar makes me really, really happy.
But I'm also a really big like flavor.
File purchasing person. So, if I can get something
that's got, like, almost like an annecy flavor to it, or like a
citrusy note to it. So, I had like, a, what was it
called recently? It was from Humboldt Farms, or
from Moon made farms, and it was called Orange Valley, son there,
an outdoor grow and Humboldt. So that's like super chirpy
really fresh flavors and it had kind of citrus notes that had
these anise notes. And I want to tell you what the
Actual terpene profiles are but let's just be honest like they
all start to sound like I'm speaking Greek and I don't
really speak but I don't either. So they had very similar like
Flavor notes, like the lanoline and the other things are just
Citrus and that kind of thing. So I really liked having a
really grassy infused olive oil that I took that with and then I
made a tomato salad that had tomatoes and peaches and fresh
basil. A little bit of red onion and
then underneath, I had taken some goat cheese that had
lavender and fennel. And I put that underneath, mmm,
that sounds like quite the combination of flavors
explosions. I really like doing stuff, like,
like taking cannabutter and putting it underneath the skin
of a chicken so that like as the chicken roast.
Oh yeah. Use that flavor in there.
Like a little bit of Rosemary or anything that kind of mimics
again those terpene. How's your have great flavor?
And you're very simply infusing, your food, another one that I
did for an event was we took pancetta and when you pick cook
pancetta, you kind of like, slow cook it in a pan.
So you pull out all the oil then you let it crisp.
So, like, as I slowly put the pancetta in the pan, I threw in
like a little nubber hash. So I kind of like infused with
pancetta grease and pancetta with hash.
And then what we did is we took that and we drizzled it over
some braised, Swiss chard and collard greens and then to get
really fancy. I smoked the whole thing.
So, each person got an individual container where they
could lift the lid, and they could literally inhale the
smoke, but also smoke their food.
Yeah. Ha ha.
Ha ha ha. That's beautiful.
What? That's I mean.
Just a description alone every part of it.
I'm tasting. All of the things that I need to
and just thinking about all those flavors combining got,
that's why you have Types of experiences.
I mean anybody can eat but very few get to dine.
I think that's amazing. I think you need to host like
cannabis schools, second birthday party or something.
It was you know, that sounds delicious.
Any time I get a chance to cook and cook for people who can
enjoy it and get to give that, like, that's the thing.
Like the the best thing for me to come out of like the whole
lock down that we went through, is I continued to work through a
good portion of Of the last couple years doing people's
birthday parties, people's anniversaries, like any of their
special events that they couldn't go out to a restaurant
or they couldn't go out and celebrate, I got to go into
their house and people just really wanted to do something
that they could like enjoy and celebrate and be like super
excited for. And so I got to create these
amazing experiences for people who really appreciated what I
did and that's what makes my job enjoyable.
When I can find the people who appreciate me Of course, have
you ever considered going out of state for an event?
If someone post that? Oh, yeah.
If I had the right person for IT, most certainly, I'm
currently, I have a friend of mine up in Sacramento, I've gone
up to her house and did a couple of things for her, but yeah, if
if someone needed me to travel anywhere, I'd be perfectly happy
to do it. That's cool.
That's what we like to hear. Yeah.
No. I mean I've got some I'll have
to share with this offline, but, you know, I really there's,
there's this awesome thing. I'm getting involved in an Ela,
and it's it deals with Brazilian jiu-jitsu and cannabis and being
able to talk to those. I mean, I'm involved up on a
higher level with this but man, I'll tell you like, I could see
like an after-party being completely infused.
Like, oh my gosh, that would be amazing, amazing.
And it would be like the quality Type of people did need to be
consuming this, because I don't know, you know, I'm imagining
that this is pretty expensive as it's expensive gen.
Honestly, what I tell people is most of my events are customized
and so really what that means is it, your price is going to be
determined by the level of service that you want, what you
want, how you want it and how much my labor goes into it.
So you can say, you know, you're going to have the price of a
really nice fine dining meal at a restaurant.
Aunt and then just add a little on top of that for the cost of
like tip and extra service fees and that kind of thing.
Like, I don't think that, you know, for some people a dinner
that cost $65 and it is expensive for some people at
dinner that cost, $300 is expensive.
So I guess it really depends on who you are as a person.
I would say, I get a price range that really runs the gamut, but
you're not really going to do anything for under $200.
That's insane that it's under 200.
I mean anyway you know it's not going to go under 200, it's
going to be your generally with what you're getting.
And I think to $200 to me is very reasonable for a beautiful
dinner where someone comes into your house and create something
incredibly special for you and that's per play.
So generally how I break things down is I say here's your cost
per labor and here's your crossword.
Food. And then we divide that by the
number of people at your party. What, that's crazy.
That's so reasonable. Like, you must be booked out
forever. I am, let's see.
I'm almost fully booked for August and I have a couple of
dates in September and then I'm trying to leave town in October.
So yeah, I mean, think fast that lie, like, I will be honest with
you. When, when we started 2022 I was
fully booked March. Each through April.
And then we we had gas prices. Go through the roof in
California and we started a well.
Someone started a war in another country and Roe v-- Wade, came
up and people started freaking out and things.
You know, it's really interesting when you own a
business where people celebrate, you start to realize that
there's times of year, when things, get too much for people
and they don't want to celebrate You know, I found like what
right after Obama got elected it was like my business was through
the roof. Everyone just wanted to party
for as long as they could and after Trump got elected, nobody
wanted to do anything for like six months.
What's been? The feel with Biden?
Everybody doesn't know. Yeah, but it's down, it's
literally been up and down it. So they're like January February
March, those party. And then I'm like, oh wait a
minute, like he's got way more stuff than he thought he was
going to have to deal with. We gotta slow.
Our role will you sup sleepy Joe?
Yeah, you've seen that strain. I'm sure the Sleepy Joe Strange.
Oh yeah. Dude, I'll tell you like, that
is, I mean, if you don't have any plans, that's the strain to
have like it. I Lilly, we saw this killer bag
that was out there and in California.
But we'll have to send it out to you because it's so funny, but
it it shows made in Russia China and the US and then it says, So
strong, you'll forget what country you're in.
Sounds like heaven and that it has Heaven, he's just kind of
look it up but he looks like he's totally lost that.
It just says that her quotes it goes.
I don't even know who I am. Like that is the perfect
description of that strain. It will.
I mean, Brandon, I had we did it right before the podcast because
we'd had it before and we recorded this episode.
And while we were doing it or like, yeah, this is totally fine
when we stop recording. I'm a all right, we need to get
something. Now it's because I'm not ready
to talk. It would have to switch trains
like instantly. Yeah, so you will speak like Joe
Biden if you smoke sleepy Joe because it just words will just
be word salad, nothing really makes sense.
So if you want to be there old school people, I love a good
couch. Lock like, please, and thank you
again, and have that I am stuck in my couch, his that, that just
takes me back. I look for those strains, if
there's a strain that will slap me in the face.
I want it, but it's just like, Where are they?
Come on, show it to me but now I feel like nothing.
Slaps you in the face like your first couple really good highs.
I will also say in this one was really funny.
I had I had gotten this joint, it was like something like forty
percent THC, like it was something stupid and I put it
away because I was like, okay, that's like I got to be prepared
for that day. Like, I'm not gonna like, I'm
not going to smoke that for, like, any old occasion.
And then I just kind of like Fell to the back of like my weed
drawer. And I forgot about it and I was
driving up to La the other day and I had been like at least a
year, if not more since I got this joint and I was driving up
to LA and I was like, look, I need a joint for traffic like
just one just one joint to get me through LA traffic, just one
and I lit up and I was fine, the entire drive like everything was
great. Everything was chill.
Got to my friends house and she's like, you just sat through
all that traffic like like you need a hit.
Like you need a good one. I was like, okay, she packed me.
Will and within five seconds? I was like, I'm done.
Done done. See you next Tuesday.
Do you know what strain it was? Honestly, I have gone to a
cannabis dinner party and they had like tasting tables and this
one woman had like a table with like all the different weed for
you to try different samplings of and this one was like her
highest grade like highest percentage THC.
Like she was like, oh this is going to be for like the end of
the night when you get off work and I was like awesome.
And like, I got off work, and I'm not gonna lie, I took like a
quarter of it and rolled it into another joint and had a Great
night and then like save the rest of it for another day and
when I got in the car and it was fine until I like mixed it with
something fresh and then my body was like.
Nope, here's everything. Here's the whole, there's a
whole party. Oh, I slept like a dream.
Are you kidding me? I was at my friend's house.
Her cat has an all-night. Her neighbor went off at like
5:00 in the morning. I was I'm not joking.
The cat was screaming for at least two hours and I was
literally laying in that bed, like I would tell you to shut
up, but I can't physically move so just keep going.
I don't even care at this point. Yeah, exactly.
Where I was at. I was like, I could be on a
futon in some horrible, fucking douchebags house right now and
I, I'm all-in justic now that sounds like sleepy Joe because
that is like, it is a kick in the head.
I am not a huge fan, I mean, at nighttime.
Sure. But, you know, my daytime stuff,
my sister. Atiba and I'll smoke sativa all
day all night. Brandon knows that I don't even
get the headaches anymore. I'm just like, well, I don't
even know what that means. No, that was me this.
I I really limit my smoking because I smoked cigarettes for
a really long time and then I'm pretty sure at the end of 2019.
I got some variants of something similar to covid that like
knocked out my lungs. I had to go in and get like,
steroid, inhaler treatments hospital and they thought I had
COPD And it was this whole thing.
So I pretty much stopped physically smoking cannabis for
almost all of 2021. Ha, I did a month.
Two months over that Brannon. Yeah.
And Champion. Yeah, it was.
But I mean that, I mean, when I came back or like okay this is
awesome but I hope that would be scary.
I had one night where I vividly. Remember, I looked at a liquor
store where I used to buy my cigarettes and I went, okay, I
could buy a pack of cigarettes or I could die.
That was literally the conversation I have there.
So like I could breathe or I could buy a pack of cigarettes.
I need to pick one and I chose to breathe and that really it
just stopped me smoking. So, I just now started kind of
slowly smoking again and I save it for like special occasions.
Like if I'm going hiking with my friends or I just did like a
two-day content shoot with a friend of mine has a cannabis
content creator and like we smoke the entire time and like
they too would like enough sativa?
A me like my head felt like there was like a Russian doll
just Pounding on my brain is like, I can't take this anymore.
That's scary. A Russian doll.
I haven't had something in there.
Just pounding away at like, yes, that was it.
That's what it felt like. So yeah, I I'm really now for
me, it's really like all I have, I have some concentrate.
So every now and then I'll take like a low temp dab pen and I'll
get like a quick like okay, this is like what I really need to
relieve my high or You know, I'll smoke a bowl here and there
but I really consume most of my candidates.
Like, I drink it, I have it in like vitamin or pill form.
I have it in topicals. I really love the drinks,
they're kind of one of my favorite things right now and
that I make a lot of like homemade alcohol teachers.
Hmm, those kick in fast. Yeah, well, that's the worst
thing in California. It's illegal to combine alcohol
and cannabis. So you can only have it in oil
format. You can't do alcohol.
So. It has to be homemade,
interesting, but I want to call that strain that you had of
whatever it was ManBearPig because that thing is, that's
crazy, right? This is a bunch of things.
I really love. I love that like the names of
people and the fact that like 80% of the names of they come up
with is some kind of Pop Culture, reference to
Generations X, you know, like like for some reason, like
they're not doing like gen Z references.
Very much like, they're just like, okay, we're going on.
All in for Jen acts, like let's just call this like Rambo's
third element, rifle do it. Right.
Yeah. Sean.
Connery's left testicle. Yeah.
Just like random.
Like you just I know I used to make fun of him all the time,
right? Brandon just like they all sound
like cereals or Saturday morning, cartoons for those who
know what Saturday morning cartoons are about but I need
seriously the names, but we should call that they need to
rename that strain, ManBearPig. Like, you don't know what's
going to happen. You Could get high.
You could give this up for a year, who knows?
This is a big question mark. There should be a strain, Sean
Connery's left testicle. That would be a good one, that'd
be a good one. That's when you start your own
strain, that's what you're starting.
I was going to say, I really like this idea of like the
Jiu-Jitsu in cannabis because I'm really starting to love
this. There is kind of a subcategory
now of like health and fitness and cannabis.
Oh yeah yeah I started reading articles about like Weight
lifters who are all in for the idea of smoking as a
pre-workout, because it allows like blood vessels to open up
and they can like, lift more their muscles expand.
They can actually be more physically fit.
I personally love juicing, cannabis leaves the antioxidant
properties in that is like, 10 times what you get and
wheatgrass. And if you're lucky and you get
some sugar leaves, you can actually get a little bit of THC
in there as well, which is kind of nice.
Oh yeah. Especially those Shirley Leaves.
Those are the best. Well, I have a like an
old-school. Like centrifugal not the one
that grinds, but the one that spins like your washer or dryer,
and it can get just hot enough that it can activate, it just a
little bit. We're like, oh, that's a shot in
the morning. I really like that.
Sounds delicious. Yeah, I found my favorite thing
to do is I take cannabis leaves pineapple and cucumber and I
find that super refreshing and the pineapple is sweet enough,
that it kind of mass some of that super grassy chlorophyll,
flavor of the cannabis leaf, that really does sound tasty.
I loved mix pineapple. Have you ever smoked a pineapple
and mix that with it? That's what you should do.
I have not I have I have oven-roasted a pineapple but I
think Yeah, pineapple smoke is amazing.
You just made me. Remember, I have a friend of
mine. She does a she does content for
student glass that has like it's a gravity bong.
Oh yeah. Like pushes the air out.
So they had like a close, big enough that you could like smoke
a drink, or they have one big enough that you can like, smoke
a plate. And so every time I hang out
with her, we find something else that would like we smoke the
cocktail and lavender smoke. So now I'm like, ooh, I'm going
to do some pineapple smoke on something.
That'd be amazing, I would be amazing.
I want to make sure that we get for our listeners.
One of the most important questions.
What's your favorite strain? So this is like asking someone
what their favorite child is. Like, it really depends on my
mood, the first one. Yeah, I Anything really?
That makes me giggly and bubbly and want to laugh and have fun.
And I used to love to do a good Skywalker for that.
It kind of made me feel uppity and happy and giggly and laffy.
I've been again, I haven't smoked honestly I just started
smoking again after like two years so you're asking about
like what strange and I smoke almost two and a half years ago.
Oh man. So do not use specific strains
when you do your Edibles or tinctures or drinks.
So um, I do it in a couple of different ways.
So with drinks, I can either do well, so I don't use oil-based
tinctures in any of my cocktails and I in mocktails, I avoid
anything with alcohol. So I will either by a
water-soluble tincture. Or I will utilize a cannabis
drink that's already made. Yes, when I have a client who is
interested in like terpene specific, I will go.
Oh, with different strains. Which?
Yes, I taste them and I don't always smoke them but I cook
with them. And then sometimes I have other
clients where I know that they want a very quick feeling to
their cannabis. So I will use purely like Nano
emotions through the entire meal.
So I know that they will get high while I'm there as opposed
to wait, two and a half hours after I leave and then see what
their experience is when it all kicks in.
Yep. Like, that's the thing that's
cannabis is so strange and so different.
There's so many different ways to enjoy an experience with it.
So every time I speak with a client, I'm like, are you more
of a smokable person? Are you a long-term edible
person? Are you new to cannabis and
Edibles? Like, where are you at on the
Spectrum and what can I do for you?
Yeah, so that you can understand the experience.
They're trying to get. Yeah, this is this is one of the
things that I really like, I like collaboration and I like
collaboration among chefs. I love the idea of having a
different chef at each course, offering you like a little
something different. And each person like I have one
friend of mine, his whole take on cannabis cooking is like how
much Stoner food can you make like can you deep-fry a peanut
butter and jelly sandwich and call that dessert?
So like I think it would be really interesting to have.
Kind of event where you could have a bunch of different
cannabis Chef. Some really, really showcase
what can be done. Oh, that would be so cool.
That would be amazing. Yeah, I have one girlfriend.
All she does is cannabis desserts.
I have another girlfriend of mine who's a part of like the
Asian Pacific communities to she really does like asian-inspired
cannabis cooking. So, yeah, there's all kinds of
and there's the whole crew of chefs who were on Chopped 420,
they're doing all kinds of events all over La.
Now, where did that are Chop find Discovery plus.
Okay, that's cool. You know what?
It's one of those things. Like it's on my resume, I use it
and say it because it's kind of one of those things that like,
it's it seals the deal with a lot of people, but in my head it
was literally my nightmare. It was like the worst experience
ever for me. What was so bad about it?
Well one, it was done during lockdown so you, we were you had
to go out to Palm Springs and you are essentially on lockdown
in a hotel room. So you couldn't talk to anyone,
you can see anyone, you could only go onset and offset for
three straight days. Every morning, they tested you.
So it like three or four or five in the morning.
Some like crew member would show up and literally shove a Q-tip.
So far up my nose, they made my nose.
And one morning and then. Yeah.
And then this is all during the time that like hairdressers,
weren't open things weren't open.
So like, as a woman, I couldn't get my hair done.
I went out and bought a wig, you know.
I was like, I don't know what to do and then I got out there and
it just became really clear that they had kind of like a preset
determination. Unlike how they wanted the the
whole thing to go. So like as I walked on set which
by the way, was a giant open-air set because As we were in the
time of a pandemic, you couldn't be indoors.
You couldn't have people close to each other.
So we go to walk on set and they go oh, by the way, you don't
need your glasses, right? Yes, I do.
They're like no you don't know they're tinted when the, when
the sun when the light gets on him.
So we're taking your glasses. That's stupid.
Yeah. So I couldn't see anything and
it was just one of those things that just completely unnerved
me. So there's there was so much
about it that like I'm really grateful for it now because I
feel like it's one of those things that you go through a
really bad breakup or really bad relationship.
You come out and like that's all the stuff I never want her
boyfriend again, and I'm like, okay, that's all this.
If I never wanted to see on the do on TV again, like I'm going
to find something that works for me.
That sounds very similar to the time when I saw a Night at the
Roxbury and theaters and it was pretty, it was horrifying
because we were there were like, we paid how much for this and
there was when I was in the Navy and literally that whole
theater, like, emptied out, like people were just leaving within
the first, like, 30 minutes. I'm like, wow, you actually
chose to go to the theater to see that movie.
Well, if this was in B8. Yeah, 98 99.
And so, I mean, I was with a bunch of sailors.
I was in Seattle and they're like, dude, we got to move that
guy looks funny and we got saw her like that movie, that movie
sucked that oh, it was good. Seal the deal by saying, like it
had something to do with the Armed Forces like that that just
yeah, someone who grew up in a town that's Air Force Navy and
Marines, like, I totally makes sense.
Yeah, they're like you know what?
Watch it. Like okay, so you eat.
So smoking just new for you again from that horrible thing,
you went through but on the Edibles on oils and you said
topical. So that's your favorite way to
be able to consume cannabis predominantly been my primary
for a really long time. So yeah, I jokingly say I don't
really smoke weed. I just consume a shit ton of it.
I saw it's always in your sister.
I mean you you get the better fact out of it.
That's what I think. I mean, if you want a long slow,
pull off of that, I always consider Edibles just to be the
go-to on that. Yeah, and that's the thing is
like, I've worked on my feet since I was about like 16 or 17.
You know, you get to be over 40, spending eight hours a day on
your feet. You're like, okay, what can I do
not to feel my feet. Sleepy Joe because some sleepy
gel on your feet, right? Make a bomb out of it.
Oh, I love I really do. I love a good like ventilated
cannabis bomb for like my feet and my calves like it's the
greatest and I just put my feet up in the air.
Let all the Blood come back into the rest of my body.
Hmm, we actually were just given one to try and the owner was
saying, but put it on your feet and then he like did fishing
trawlers young like a fleet of Of them.
I mean, the guy has seen some shit in armor for right 20
years. He's like one of the things that
people don't really discuss when they talk about topicals, is
that really like it? Let's say you have pain in your
back that isn't necessarily where you want to put the
topical because you want to put topicals wherever your skin is
the thinnest. So it absorbs fastest into your
bloodstream. So that's going to be like on
your wrist. On the tops of your feet behind
your knee. Like you're not going to put it
on your saddlebags and Hope. It makes it through like 40
years of. I usually smear mine on my ass
cheeks because it's like how I was like, I don't know why, but
it's just so much better. I mean, look, someone some
people like a good slip and slide in their in their chonies
but like just This is awesome. I love it till you try it right?
Yeah, right. It don't knock it.
Well, don't love it. I mean, definitely love it.
And then give it. Give it a try.
But yeah, I love this. This is so cool.
Jen, you are tremendous. I loved it.
What you are doing, how you're elevating and how your you've,
you're part of a community of other chefs within the related
fields than they all specialize in different things.
We, that is amazing. How do people what's going to be
the best way for Any of our audience to be able to get ahold
of you. So Chef Jenn with two n's cooks
that is all of my social media that is also my website.
So on Instagram is really where I put the bulk of my cannabis,
contents. It's the one place that like
does not fully restrict me right now and then I have my website
and you can always email me directly through there and we'll
have those links all down in the show notes below.
Thank you again Jen for spending this time.
And this was so awesome. I know that our audience is
getting a lot out of this, a lot of good laughs and then really
being able to be immersed within the Cannabis World in a slightly
different way. As many of new consumers within
cannabis, always want to go to straight to a vapor and edible
is just like a gummy but and being able to treat yourself to
a really intense flavor explosion, if you will, in the
comfort of their home or at an event, it's just pretty cool.
And I, I love how you are on the Fly being able to create based
upon where you are. Cooking use all those
ingredients as well. I think that's amazing.
Thank you. Yeah, I really think what, what
I offer for people is this ability to take something that
they've either known their whole life, or they think they know
like they've gone and they've had an edible or they've gone
and they bought some gummies and I think they know one thing and
I get to show them that it really like there's a whole
spectrum of all kinds of interesting ways that you
Utilize enjoy it. And let me tell you, I will say
when you are high, you really enjoy your food.
It tastes so much better. It every time, especially when
it's. This really nice delicious
experience in front of you. When you have the opportunity to
just sit back, relax, be with a group of friends and, and really
like get euphoric and get high and just be in that moment, it's
very rare. And then you add delicious food
on top of it. Like, I don't know.
Why everyone isn't doing this every night of the week.
I agree, I support that. That's why I have my own
cannabis infused olive oil for things because you never know
when you're going to need it. I have a whole section in my
kitchen that like, I have to warn people of, like, this is
the, like I have infused salt. I have infused cocoa powders, I
have infused, alcohols and oils, and Butters.
And yeah, it's like these are the things that have to be
labeled and separated your Ian's probably fantastic.
It really it really. Truly is like it is my my home
is a plethora of food and cannabis.
I'm just over here, dreaming about it.
Well, again, thank you Jen for joining us.
And thank everybody for listening today.
You got comments, you got some questions for Jen, go ahead and
put it in there in to the comment section.
And Brandon, what do you want to take us out with?
It's been great. Jen, we truly appreciate you
joining us. Thank you for sharing a little
bit of you. If a little bit of us.
Thank you guys for having me. I really appreciate it.
All right, take care. Air of 19.
Everybody have a good one.