There may be a another wife out there as beautiful, special and talented as mine, but I never meet one or heard of one. It’s easy to be married for a quarter century when you’re as lucky as I am. A gourmet cook, a tireless worker to a fault, faithful, and consistent that many people have told me looks like Sarah Palin or Debby Reynolds. My Silver Wedding Anniversary is just a small example of her talents . . . my wife picked the spot at the five star resort, had it roped off and we had complete privacy and special service, all for just a 25% up-charge that went to the waiter . . . the fact of the matter is, we tip 20% anyway.
Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
My Silver Wedding Anniversary Dinner
May 21, 2011Ah! Those Wonderful Christmas Season Foods & Meals (Part Five); New Years Eve
February 14, 2011We spend New Years Eve watching movies (it’s a Wonderful Life is mandatory), snacking and conversing about the year that was and the year to come. I love the informality of New Years Eve. It’s a perfect way to end the year and reflect on the fact that it is a wonderful life, now, and for those that “believe,” the truly wonderful life to come.
Ah! Those Wonderful Christmas Season Foods & Meals (Part Four); Christmas Day Dinner
January 29, 2011Other than for special celebrations like the birth of Christ, I think having beef tenderloin should be kept to a minimum for two reasons — fat content — cost. . .
. . . beef tenderloin is taken from the muscle of a steer, heifer or cow that does very little work, so it is the most tender part of the beef and therefore the most fatty. The best tenderloin is from a steer or heifer and can cost as much as $100 for six pounds. We only paid $13 a pound because we bought a large cut that was “unpeeled” (meaning the fat and silver skin still remains). To remove the silver skin takes knowledge, so if you don’t know what you are doing it’s best to pay a little more per pound and have a professional do it for you so the expensive meat is not wasted. If a good cut of meat is desired the beef tenderloin should be the first choice.
Ah! Those Wonderful Christmas Season Foods & Meals (Part Three); The Christmas Eve Feast Of The Seven Fishes
January 21, 2011The Feast of the Seven Fishes held on Christmas Eve honors and celebrates the Seven Sacraments of the Holy Roman Catholic Church — each fish served represents one of the key tenants of Christ’s teachings and mandates. My lovely wife and I carry on a family tradition that is at least over a century old and very well could be much older.
Ah! Those Wonderful Christmas Season Foods & Meals (Part Two) Gingerbread Cookies
January 17, 2011Made correctly a gingerbread cookie is unlike any other — a hard gingerbread cookie is a failure. The secret to a soft gingerbread cookie is adding molasses to your recipe and making the cookie thick enough so they don’t turn out to be teeth cracking rocks.
***1/8/11 Update*** Ah! Those Wonderful Christmas Season Foods & Meals
January 3, 2011Now I suspect that there are women out their that put as much time and love in the meals they create for their families as my wife does . . . however, I have only meet three; my mother; my mother-in-law; and my grandmother. Furthermore, I put my wife in a league all her own. My wife loves her profession, works hard and still insists on making spectacular meals all year long with a heightened level of time and love during the Christmas Holidays that includes Thanksgiving in my book . . . Without the birth of Christ there is no Thanksgiving, or for that matter an America that celebrates Thanksgiving day.
Many more photos of the 2010 Christmas Season meals to come . . .
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