Our house....

If anybody knows us personally they know that Wolfie (House mother Lisa) is the main cook here, not that I cannot cook, surely I can, but there is a tendency to make a mess, for example not too many months ago I decided to make some bread, (It turned out like tasty leather.) But Lisa described the resultant mess as "The white tornado meets the Pillsbury dough boy." So obviously cooking doesn't simply involve mixing ingredients and baking or frying, (Or Broiling, or boiling, or scalding, or grilling.) But also cleaning up the mess. And that is the reason I don't get to do much of the cooking, (which is actually a good thing as Lisa is a consummate cook.) Those of you who know us know the famous Super Bowl Chili of 1996. No seriously, people still talk about a meal she made over 14 years ago. Only five of us were there to eat it, but we all remember it, and can describe the different levels of heat it brought to our palate, It wasn't painfully hot, but the heat started at the lips and slowly worked it's way back down the throat. She had spent three days making it, adding different pre browned meats, cooking down vegetable juice slowly to enrich it. Four different kinds of hot peppers, and onions and green peppers also. It had chili beans and various spices, but this was certainly one of those times when the whole was much greater than the sum of the parts. She believes that she will never be able to make a chili like that again as there was no real recipe, but those of us who know her wouldn't be surprised if she pulled it off again. She will certainly have opportunity as Football season is beginning again, and those special days will be filled with good food and good friends as always. That's about it for now. I am getting hungry, I'll try not to make a mess this time. Ciao for now.