Cheyney Hope Morgan
Bio
I have always enjoyed being creative! I spend hours researching for my writing projects or using past expierences to create something relatable. I dabble in creative writing and have always wanted to publish a novel! Thanks for reading!
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Short, Sweet, and to the Point Recipes!
My favorite part of catering during my past career of being a chef was the joy you felt in the room at a special event when you saw people thoroughly enjoying their meal. The food is always something that people will mention when they talk about said event afterward. If the food was bad you could ensure that you were going to lose potential clients over it but if people left satisfied you knew that meant the potential for new clients was rising. Service and presentation can help a meal but it cant save it. You need to have all the right flavors and the dedication to what you’re cooking. I will say that my least favorite part of this career was how time-consuming planning, cooking for and executing the event was. The only thing that ever made this part better was the glorious times that I would have a client who said the words “I want to keep it simple”. This meant I was going to get to have the joy of creating something fun and it wasn’t going to eat up all of my allotted time. I particularly shone in the appetizer and small dessert department in these situations. I wanted to share some of my best (and most popular) ideas with you today. I picked 3 of my appetizers and 3 of my mini desserts to show to you. The best part of these recipes is there is no meticulous amounts to abide by or ridiculously long instructions to follow. ‘Short, sweet, and to the point’ is a motto I love to live by when in the kitchen.
By Cheyney Hope Morgan3 years ago in Feast
Eat, Drink and Just Try to Stay Merry
As a caterer who lost their job to the horrors of the COVID-19 pandemic, I often find myself looking through new recipes to try my best at wowing my family since I no longer have an audience to impress. I find that now has been a great time for trying these new things or coming up with new favorites (or resurrecting old ones). While cooking huge meals for groups of people or even my family has been the biggest part of my life, one of the big things I will always enjoy for myself is a stiff drink and a good appetizer spread. I think it’s the mother of two in me that tends to find myself ‘snacking on the run’ throughout the day rather than taking the time to eat a full meal. Have you ever tried loading a washer with a fork full of green beans? And god forbid the extra dishes! After cooking food for my household if I end up with time to sit down, I want it to be a peaceful quiet moment with my drink and simple food I can eat with my hands. One of the best combos I’ve come to find in this specific situation is an Apple Pie drink and a beautifully displayed charcuterie board with all my favorite items. Their both simple and can be relatively inexpensive. Oh! And NO COOKING!!!
By Cheyney Hope Morgan3 years ago in Feast
Community Outreach V. Murder
In a time when we have an innate fear of the harder to swallow facts, there is a need for those willing to dedicate their lives to these harsher realities. The importance of task forces to handle specific problems is nothing new for the justice system. The hard question we have to ask is what can we do to improve on these processes? The mounting pressure combined with simple human error can lead to missteps that may not allow initial connections to be made or to areas that were not previously explored. A singular task force without interchangeable individuals can lead to overworked and overwhelmed people. But in a world where the people protecting us are overwhelmed and have more than enough to be concerned about, where can we turn to help us find more people dedicated to the safety and justice of others?
By Cheyney Hope Morgan3 years ago in Criminal
Solving the Unsolvable
In my previous article, Community Outreach V. Murder, I had mentioned the importance of communities working with their local and state police departments to assist with the high amounts of unsolved cases throughout America. I had also mentioned the important work of Thomas Hargrove with the Murder Accountability Project (MAP) and how it significantly supports the idea of serial murders being a big connection to many unidentified persons and cold cases. In a quote from Thomas Hargrove’s LinkedIn page, they report that “The Murder Accountability Project has assembled the nation's most complete database of homicides and unsolved homicides, including details about more than 20,000 murders never reported to the FBI. We have also developed an algorithm that can spot unsolved cases with an elevated probability of being the work of uncaught serial killers.” This alone is the start we need to help begin a beautiful symbiosis between the community and the justice system. In this article, I hope to bring light to the true crisis of unreported murders and how they eventually turn into cold cases. Without community assistance or the assistance of people like Thomas Hargrove, we can cast a veil that blinds us to the horrors lurking underneath which can be dangerous or lead to future victims falling into the same pattern as the past victims.
By Cheyney Hope Morgan3 years ago in Criminal
