My father Spice Cabinet is bigger than your dad!

I'm sure my wife will be told how "lucky" that (not mine!) Is tired. I know who is the lucky one. Although I searched all over the country in the '90s to build a career in sales and marketing was a walk, took the fort and the awareness of three children (who account for anything the way it is said that good luck!) In practice only. I was lucky, they chose just fine! However, in a stereotyped when we meet friends and knowledge in social contexts in which The conversation is about food - and often does - happen to hear my wife: "You are sooooo happy your husband does the cooking!" (It seems to me a woman!)

I am a gourmet, but let me say for the record, the spouse, man or woman whose partner cooks three or more times a week is a fortune - twice, if the food quality remains high (which is the case with us house.) My interest in food, in particular the preparation of their own, dating back 30 years to get my dough to tunaDays> pan as a student, Living On My Own. Tuna noodle casserole But mother was a staple in my house during my formative years, so when I rented my first roommate Sophomore College were introduced to my tuna casserole Clara. I took because it was simple. The rest, as they say, is history.

After several years, alternating tuna casserole, hot dogs, Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup and Domino's Pizza, it was time to footballThings up a notch. After all, man can not live at Domino's alone! After a brief stint as a cook at the school in a popular hometown restaurant, I understood my place in the kitchen a bit '. I asked one thing for Christmas 1980 - a cookbook - and true to form, Santa came through my Betty Crocker Cookbook (it was actually his mother). Until then, I had no roommate was cooking for one is not very effective, but I decided to expand my beatculinary horizons. And now, the quality of the radicals began to improve!

I married my wife in the summer after graduation, and since I was cooking. My second cookbook - the classic "New York Times Cookbook - was a gift from my stepmother. I was very useful with a sketchbook and a box of crayons as a child, but I chose a career not artistic, I think discovered that my kitchen was preordained. It allows me to satisfy my creative tendencies whileServe a cool feature - like all I eat.

House rules: do not stop there, but at least try.

It 'really the only hard and fast rules on the table in our house, and allows us to significantly expand our children's mouths when they were teenagers. This can be a double-edged sword, because if I dared sauce served a meat dish without accompaniment, I am sure that girls get the evil eye from my. "What, Daddy, noSalsa? Can I be excused? "Ultimately, my children have grown up with a significant appreciation of good food and the hard work you do, not to mention the importance of fresh ingredients.

As you can imagine, our table hosts dozens of friends of our children over the years, and the House rule applied to them. The only exception acted allergies. So we have suspended hundreds of children to justice, who had never seen, and have built their culinary world in the processOthers friends of our kids knew - and we know yet - an invitation to dinner from the house Stauffer was a special occasion and we were blessed, some of them with us more than once.

What about our friends? And 'this house are usually too? You bet! Having friends for dinner, or organize a group to a football match or a holiday present some of our most enjoyable and memorable social events. Our idea is a good time hanging out with friends, some nucleioffers great house wine and a couple of cocktails complete. For us, this does not mean better.

God Bless The Internet

I am a firm believer if you can read a certain extent, you can cook. Thus, as supplies and equipment needed, there is no reason to eat, why should someone hurt or even mediocre food, if you have access to a book or online. The greatest resource for recipes become world class withoutDemand, the Internet. Web sites like Epicurious.com, Allrecipes.com to FoodNetwork.com and - just to name a few - my main source of new revenue. To some extent, the Web has eliminated the need to acquire practical for the average consumer cookbooks and expensive. Most sites are easy to use assessments, so a good rule of thumb for the recipes, which are held the highest score. Many sites also have difficulty levels, and almost all estimates of preparation time, so that theNovice or beginners can choose to fight a recipe. The highest rating on Epicurious.com, for example, four forks. I've never been a recipe, download an evaluation of a number of collective average less than 3 1 / 2 forks, and usually prefer recipes that four forks. Over time I've had enough of the quality of revenues collected downloaded from the Internet to a 3 1 / 2 "D-ring binder to fill, and I would add to the routine collection.

Ladies, it was said that the quickest way to a man from the heartStomach. Guys, believe me, it works the other way too. Ask my wife and my daughters, my neighbors and my wife and my friends "for women! Bon appetit!

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