the blog I should write....

I have decided I should write a blog called..."Scarlett's Adventures with Cooking...What NOT to do." Looking back I have done some funny things in the kitchen attempting to be a good housewife. Four months into our marriage, I decided to make chili for the first time. We were spending all of our spare time working on painting, flooring, trim, etc on our townhouse while living in our little one bedroom apartment. I was so excited to have a "home cooked" meal for David when he got home from working so hard in the townhouse. He took one bite of the chili to find "crunchy beans." I had no idea I needed to cook the beans before adding them to the chili! The good husband he is....he just fished out the crunchy beans and ate the chili anyway!

Steeplechase is a day in Nashville that gives everyone an excuse to have their first cocktail well before lunch! Fresh back from vacation, David and I were so excited to spend the day with friends and family at the race. Whitney (my sister-in-law) was in town for Steeplechase as well. I was planning on a fun day at Steeplechase followed by a homecooked meal for David and Whitney. I was obviously unacustomed to drinking so early in the day..when I failed to (yet again) cook the lasagna noodles before putting them in the lasagna!!!! Crunchy is my specialty I suppose!

Last night while making homemade oatmeal raisin cookies, I was multi-tasking....cooking and talking on the phone with friends. I obviously wasn't paying attention to the recipe. David said the cookie batter tasted "really buttery" before I baked the cookies. I didn't think anything of it until the cookies came out flatter than pancakes! I guess I should lay off the multi-tasking....I only put 1/3 of the flour in the cookies that the recipe calls for! Oh well.....atleast I tried! Only I could mess up a recipe that I have baked atleast 6 times!

I'm beginning to think that old saying, "The way to a man's heart is through is stomach" can't be true! Or atleast I hope not!!!!