Everyone always asks where I got the name Mantitlement, and I’m here to tell you! A little bit of a background, Christie and I have been married for 25 years. We just celebrated our anniversary last month and it was really something special. But as all of my married friends out there know, marriage is a journey. We’re constantly growing and learning things about each other (yep, even after 25 years) and nope, life isn’t always happy hour and cocktails. We’d sure like it to be but life does get in the way sometimes, am I right?
Let’s take, for instance, about 10 years ago when it was a particularly stressful day around the George household, and Christie tells me that I have a “Mantitlement” a far as dinner time goes. At that time, with two young boys, she was cooking constantly. Why – she would say – do I get to just sit down and feel that I was entitled to having dinner prepared for me? And not only the mental load of having to come up with recipes to make, but to shop for the ingredients but also prepare all the meals. Mantitlement. Yep, that was me.
So the wife said it was time for me to learn how to cook. And learn how to cook I did, so we thought we’d document our recipes that we love cooking for our family here for you. Since then, our recipes have been featured on The Pioneer Women’s website, in Parade Magazine, Women’s World and Better Homes and Gardens. We’ve also been featured publishers on Food Fanatic and The Bar.
Yes! We create, make and test every recipe on our website. These are also all of our own photographs – we take those too. Of course there are recipes like Chicken Marsala, classic recipes that have been around for years. We obviously didn’t invent that, but the recipe here on our site is our take on it and the way we think that it tastes the best. But then there are recipes like our Chicken Marsala Baked Ziti that we did invent, based on my love for all things with marsala wine.
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Enough about me (us) we’d love to hear about you! What are your lives like, what brings you to our website looking for recipes. Do you find yourself lookin at more dinner and appetizers as opposed to cocktails or both? What struggles do you have getting dinner on the table every night? We’re here to help. We work for you.
Cheers,
Dan
dan {at} mantitlement {dot} com
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