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Locally Made: Jordan Stejskal Brings the Garden to Your Kitchen

​Jordan Stejskal used to struggle with a multiple personality problem.For years, the Phoenix native worked for a Scottsdale architecture firm where she was a self-described office Super Girl in pencil skirts and heels.  When she wasn't in the office, Jordan turned into the hippie chef, a farmer's market groupie who...
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Jordan Stejskal used to struggle with a multiple personality problem.

For years, the Phoenix native worked for a Scottsdale
architecture firm where she was a self-described office Super Girl in pencil
skirts and heels.  When she wasn’t in the
office, Jordan turned into the hippie chef, a farmer’s market groupie
who enjoyed whipping up homemade meals.

Last year, Jordan found a way to merge the two parts herself with a new business called The Gardeners Kitchen.

​When Jordan was eighteen, her father died of cancer, leaving her a
small sum of money.

When Jordan worked at the architecture firm, she put in many hours, but didn’t feel inspired by her contributions. These days, Jordan puts in a twelve hour day in her industrial kitchen creating the meals from her own recipes, but she says she doesn’t even notice the clock.

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Jordan says that her customers are people who appreciate
slow cooked homemade food and would make it themselves, if they had time
to.

​The meals are
packaged for two, but we tried the Stuffed Shells and were able to feed a
family of two adults and two small children with a side salad.

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