About This Blog

This is a blog about cooking written by a man who can barely cook. I am great at heating stuff up, decent at following a recipe and completely useless when it comes to coming up with a creative idea for a meal. Fortunately, I married a woman who not only loves to cook but she is really good at it. This blog is dedicated to her, the magic she creates in the kitchen and the great times we have around these wonderful meals.

These are not recipes for people who do not know how to cook. Honestly, in some instances I would not even call them recipes because my amateur kitchen knowledge would not be able to follow the list of ingredients and directions and make anything that remotely resembles the meal they were born of. These are more like guidelines for people that know how to cook but might be looking for a new direction for things.

What these recipes lack in detail and description they make up for in creativity and the story behind them. They are the result of a general idea of a path to something tasty or a lightening stroke of an idea that just seemed to work.  Amounts will vary in accordance with the number of people you will serve. Ingredients will vary with your taste buds. Your imagination and direction may, no, should take these recipes in any direction you desire.

What will not change from these recipes is the love, creativity and energy that my favorite Chef put into them. The Chef is my wife and each of these meals was a success in our home. From romantic date night meals, to big family and friend feasts, to quick and easy dinners for two grownups and a relatively picky six-year old, everything in this book was resulted in oohs, aahs, and clean plates.  

All of the “recipes” in this blog are presented as they were transcribed when they happened.  Therefore, a meal that flew out of my wife’s brain after a few glasses of wine may not include the same detail as something she spent a week preparing for. Fortunately, this is less of a cooking blog and more of a guide to a good time and that should bleed through any description we could capture. In the big picture, the meal is simply an ingredient in the overall taste of the day. What a cookbook lacks in setting, story, and documented results will be the focus in the following pages.  I hope you will be inspired by the fun as much as the meal that supported it.