Every bite of food should be a sweet bite
I had a rough week this pass week.
I’m so, but SO glad that it’s finally over (or at least in 3 more hours).
Then it will be a pack action weekend in my kitchen. I’m testing recipes, coming up with yummy stuff that involved expensive ingredients and lots of lost of taste test.
Who said that recipe development is fun?
Oh, yeah – I think I did.
Tom and I love to have dinner parties. Mainly because Tom knows that I like to cook up a storm and then sit back and accept all the praises that our guest will send my our way.
I’m crazy and he loves me – what can I say.
On the last dinner party, we had his best friend and his wife over. We had them numerous times before and they are the type of dinner guest that will pretty much eat anything we put in front of them.
I call it having an adventurous palate.
I love cooking for them.
And the best part? The best friend wife is a vegetarian who lately is venturing into the raw food movement. Which means that she forces me to be an adventurous cook - the best kind if you ask me.
Did you know that grilling is a Patriotic Duty? According to HPBA (the Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association) independence day is the number one holiday for barbecues and outdoor cooking and based on a national grilling poll, 80% of adults plan to host or attend a cookout this forth of July.
The U.S. Census Bureau - better known for telling Americans how many of them there are and how much they make on the average - surveyed 66 million people who attended barbecues last year and figured "it's probably safe to assume a large number of these events took place on the Fourth."