When I was child I always spent time with my parents in the kitchen, watching intently as my mother chopped masses of herbs for her Persian stews or my dad rolled out roti the flat-bread from his native Trinidad, my nose barely reaching the kitchen counter.

This post comes from Georgia Catanese, also known as Teen Chef G. Georgia loves to cook and comes up with many of her own recipes. Continue reading to learn more about how she got started cooking and check out her recipe for Jambalaya. It's longer and a bit more complicated than ChopChop recipes, but still a delicious and healthy meal!

As you probably could already tell, we love to eat the rainbow here at ChopChop.  So, in the sprit of healthy eating and to celebrate the awesome New Balance 890 Rainbow shoe, ChopChop and New Balance invite you to enter the “Run the Rainbow, Eat the Rainbow” contest. Enter your email for a chance to win some stellar prizes, like a one-year subscription to ChopChop, a pair of 890 Rainbow shoes (they’re super cute and fun), and a grand prize of a $400 gift card to a local grocery store. The contest is open through May, so run and enter now at newbalance.com/rainbow.