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My wife tried to kill me last night...

Not really, but that statement doesn't quite reflect the amount of shock I am in today after her actions last night. What horrible thing could she have done to make me question her motives you ask?

She served me a sandwich with mustard on it!

I'm sure the look of horror on my face was worth a good laugh once I realized what was in my mouth. She made both of us a couple of panini's last night and decided that she wanted mustard and tomatoes on hers, which I asked to be omitted from my sandwich. Once served, I joked that she had given me the wrong sandwich and proceeded to bite into it. Jenn noticed that her sandwich was missing tomatoes and pointed this out. I made it to the bathroom in 2 seconds flat.

All in all, I didn't even taste the mustard. I was only on the first bite and it wasn't the really nasty yellow mustard (which in my eyes is equal to eating sulfuric acid). I lived through the harrowing tale but now have to cast a suspicious eye on anything my wife puts in front of me. Maybe I can hire one of those tasters that kings used to have in their courts to detect any poisons.

On more realistic news, there has been a real dry spell at foodb lately. Jenn has been out of work for some time and we had to really tighten our budget in the last few months. Unfortunately this means we have to really rely on a lot of recipes that we know are relatively cheap and that we have already covered on this here web site. So don't think I have abandoned this site entirely, I'm just waiting until we get back on our feet in some form.

Posted by Gordon at 11:13 AM | Permalink

Here hoping you all have a good Thanksgiving. If not I hope you're at least enjoying the time off because I know I sure will be.

I made my Pumkpin Cheesecake last night. The process was a lot easier this time around cause I knew what to expect. I also used a bigger bowl for the mixing and that made life nicer. We have a handheld mixer and the last time I made the cheesecake I ended up spraying cake mix all over the walls. Since I am in charge of cleaning the kitchen I only had myself to blame.

Posted by Gordon at 08:50 AM | Permalink

Erg. It's hard to start a new blog the same month you have all sorts of things planned. Finding time to write just seems to be harder and harder. Luckily I work during the day so I get to slack off for 8 hours.

Either tonight or tomorrow I will write up my reviews of the places we went for Jenn and mine's 2 year anniversary. We went out to Vegas and ate at an English Pub called The Crown and Anchor and tonight we are going fancy and heading to 555 East in Long Beach.

Also later in the week I am heading off to my 10th annual trip to the San Diego Comic Convention. Since I am on a budget I am going to try and cook some of my meals in the hotel room via my kick ass crock pot. I should be able to save a few hundred dollars alone just on food bills. I will post those recipes when I get back next week and review what worked and what we ended up throwing out the window.

By the way, Vegas in summer is not a good idea. We went there during their biggest ehat wave of the year as well so it felt like we were the ones that were going to be served on a platter. Next year were are going to Greenland were it is cold.

Posted by Gordon at 11:53 AM | Permalink

You may be wondering where you landed. I started this site because I am a fan of food blogging sites and I thought I would throw my 2 cents into the fray. Also I found that with the last blog I created, it was a great learning experience and it never hurts to try and act like I have some english skills. One of these days I might even make my high school english teacher reconsider the D she gave me, not that I didn't earn it at the time.

Now, what the hell are you going to talk about you say. My wife and I have, for the last year or so, been learning that food is more than just something that gives us energy. I've developed a better sense for better tasting food through BBQ'ing and she has gotten some good cookbooks that made us realize that we too can make something that would cost us $25 a plate at some fancy restaurant. She is an awesome cook by the way and I imagine a lot of the cooking reviews I do on here will be related to something she made during the week and not from myself. So hopefully this site will explore recipes that we enjoy and some reviews of restaurants that we decide to splurge on. Who knows, I might even go into some equipment reviews.

I hope you enjoy my site and I hope to meet some new people that are as interested in making dinner not just another chore.

Posted by Gordon at 09:37 AM | Permalink