a night off
hi, 2010. i'm writing because something fantastic is going to happen tonight - my husband is going to cook dinner! people, it's all true! and it's even more wondrous than it seems!
i may or may not have mentioned it here, but i actually love cooking. one of my favorite things to do is test my patience and skills at following instructions (pretty much all there is to it) every single night with a meal. i also pride myself on diversity - i usually try not to eat the same thing twice in a month (one exception: my spinach and bacon quiche, which is easier to make than a hamburger helper box and saves my life when the last thing i can face is my kitchen). my confidence grows with each success and every "yumm" or "this is soo goood drooollll" i hear from the hubs.
but some nights, and we all have those nights, people, it's just not in the cards. i'm up at 5:20 every morning for a 1.5 hour commute to and then back from bethesda each day; i work in a hectic and fast-paced publishing business, and sometimes it's all i can do to drive home and collapse onto my couch. and that's where mr. partner comes into the picture. let me tell you about what a great cook he is. his cooking repertoire includes, and is completely limited to, the following items:
and let me tell you, on nights like these, they are the tastiest things on the entire continent of north america.
and so i'm off to prepare for one of these two culinary masterpieces. who knows where this night will take us?! it's an adventure that ends anywhere but the kitchen.
i may or may not have mentioned it here, but i actually love cooking. one of my favorite things to do is test my patience and skills at following instructions (pretty much all there is to it) every single night with a meal. i also pride myself on diversity - i usually try not to eat the same thing twice in a month (one exception: my spinach and bacon quiche, which is easier to make than a hamburger helper box and saves my life when the last thing i can face is my kitchen). my confidence grows with each success and every "yumm" or "this is soo goood drooollll" i hear from the hubs.
but some nights, and we all have those nights, people, it's just not in the cards. i'm up at 5:20 every morning for a 1.5 hour commute to and then back from bethesda each day; i work in a hectic and fast-paced publishing business, and sometimes it's all i can do to drive home and collapse onto my couch. and that's where mr. partner comes into the picture. let me tell you about what a great cook he is. his cooking repertoire includes, and is completely limited to, the following items:
- tacos
- stromboli
and let me tell you, on nights like these, they are the tastiest things on the entire continent of north america.
and so i'm off to prepare for one of these two culinary masterpieces. who knows where this night will take us?! it's an adventure that ends anywhere but the kitchen.