Somebody… and I won’t mention any names… made a comment about me not being able to cook. What a sexist remark. And just about as wrong as a remark can be. I was a house daddy for 15 years… (Our kids were born 9 years apart)… way before it became socially acceptable. And my mom raised my three brothers and I to be self-sufficient. It boggles my mind that kids these days leave home without knowing how to cook or mend their clothes or even do their own laundry. What is wrong with people?
I already shared my beer bread recipe. Now I will share some pictures of one of my favorite dishes. I make a mean fondue…
My fondue is so thick you have to cut it with a pair of scissors. I make my fondue on Valentine’s day… and we also have one of those melty chocolate fountains. This year, we were in Arizona visiting Jessica on Valentine’s day, so we didn’t get to do our ritual. We did it last week, when the family got together for some birthdays…
We even had a cheddar cheese fondue for the people who didn’t like mine… because I use strong, foreign cheeses and lots of sherry… and we had bread and apple slices and veggies to dip. I have had Swiss fondue in a place with a view of the Matterhorn, and mine is just as good. Add some chocolate-drizzled strawberries and mini marshmallows, and you have a Valentine’s day feast that will rock your world.
On top of being a very good cook… and painting, drawing, carving tikis, writing, singing and playing music, writing children’s books and funny sci-fi novels, poetry, and about 50 other kinds of art, not to mention this blog, I also have a green thumb…
That’s right… that orchid was almost dead, and I brought it back and made it bloom. Do you know how hard that is to do?
So let’s be careful throwing around those insults, shall we?
Pouring My Art Out 
Somebody… and I won’t mention any names… made a comment about me not being able to cook.
Couldn’t have been me. I am still a house husband and daddy– I can cook, clean, do laundry, and be handy around the house. Cimmy sometimes fights me to get stuff done, unless it’s electrical. That she leaves completely to me.
I do not do electricity
Amazing. More amazing, you have to cut your cheese. Why does that sound like the start to another joke, lol. Funny guy. But also a good cook with a green thumb. Yep. High points for that my friend.
Oddly, I have no major real life skills at all.
Oh my…you know what it takes to render me speechless?? Do you? My guess is a 15 hour work day followed by less than 6 hours sleep and reading this post… oh wait, if I was speechless I wouldn’t have anything to say would I? Nevermind. carry on..
Ha…
that is one beauty of an orchid I must admit. I don’t know if I could do that as said orchid would become worlds best kitty toy ever once it entered my home…
Can’t have that
Okay, a guy who can cook is all kinds of awesome, You just got even sexier.
And stop gay-flirting with Trent. That’s very distracting. Although I have to admit, one of the funnest things EVER is having you two hijack my blog. I’ll have to post something worthy of that.
Bring on the chocolate fountain! I loves me some chocolate!
Me and Trrent will strip and take a chocolate shower…
Now I can’t think straight.
This is too much.
Yesterday, it was Jennie in a bikini. Now the two of you immersed in chocolate? How’s a girl supposed to work around here?
I doubt we would live up to the mental image… even with the chocolate…
I’d have to be the judge of that…
But since it will have to take place in cyber space, the whole thing will be mental. So it can look anyway we want, with absolutely NO consequences.
That’s what everybody loves about the Internet, right? Yay!
Just be gentle with me… HA!
I love orchids, my partner has a green thumb too, I’m the cook though. That fondue looks awesome. I am banging out my California pans, another friend wants to come but he wants to do SF to San Diego, I’ll keep you posted
If I could meet you guys in SF and then we could travel the coast highway south, that would be awesome.
That could work, it’ll get warmer the further south we go too – no rain please 🙂
I will do what I can
Meeting the guys Friday so we will bang out a plan for California in the Autumn/Fall 😀
awesome!!!
Beautiful orchids.
I love those colors
This post kicks all kinds of ass.
How many kinds of ass are there?
Like fingerprints, there are as many unique asses as there are humans in the world. So, like, 7 billion. Plus all the animal asses, so, like, a million katrillion gillion X infinity.
what about the aliens…?
Also, for the record, I’m an awesome cook.
I bet you are… we would make an awesome gay couple…
There’s no man I’d rather choose.
I can’t believe I just said that.
Well if we ever both turn gay…
You mean gayer…
yeah… I guess I do
Is it pervy if I ask if I can watch?
I mean, if you two ever decide to like, hook up?
uh… yes it is… unless you join in…
Man, if I had met you before my wife… I’d have rocked that shit! Oh shit, I swore. Sorry.
Do your talents have no end????
are you proposing?
This is getting emotional…
I knew the food would would break down your defenses
I love a man who can cook!
I love anyone who can cook
Tru dat. My wife… well, she is something special, but cooking is not exactly one of her strongpoints (by her own admission).
it is a skill anyone can learn
I think you have to have a feel for it.
no… some things are like that… cooking is a series of completely predictable variables.
What???? Cooking is art, dude, much more than science.
Making a cake is a scientific process… decorating it is an art.
Baking is science, certainly. But the cooking is art.
A recipe is a set of instructions using varying amounts of ingredients to achieve a result.
Ha! now I’m hungry. You know my Hubby was a trained cook and guess who does all the cooking?!
Life is funny
Yeah funneh! pft I do not like cooking.
do you like eating?
uh huh
well what if something happens to the big guy?
I do the cooking now, the big guy doesn’t like cooking
What if a moose eats him?
it won’t
It might
Silly rabbit, tricks are for kids…
I am a kid
I’m all for not throwing around insults.
Do you give lesdons? I’ve lkilled more plants than I’ve saved.
You have to send love vibes…
Cook for ME! I LOVE food and it is the best part of my day now I am single.
sure…
Sweet! I will eat ALL THE THINGS!
simmer down
Like a casserole? And I did mean all the things right?
Like a pot of soup, and sure you did
Hahahaha you so get me. You’re way cool
oh stop
It’s the bubble wrap. I blame you and hold you personally and morally responsible.
I am sure I can come up with more things you can do with bubble wrap
I think this one alone is enough to keep me going for days
People overlook the sexiness of everyday objects
Now I’m curious about the Matterhorn trip.
I did pictures… that trip to Europe with Jessica and a bunch of high school band geeks…
Yay! It wasn’t me 🙂
no it was not
Who said that about you? Do I need to punch them on the nose?
I set the record straight
How is “you don’t know how to cook” a sexist remark? I missed the original comment, so please forgive me if that ‘person’ mentioned your manhood with their insult.
Can you spin wool into yarn and knit warm socks? That’s the final requirement to qualify as a 40-goat spouse… 🙂
Does stapling the thread together count?
Kinda uncomfortable to walk in, dontcha think?
The secret is to make sure the points of the staples are down!
Plus, they’ll grab the shoe so your food doesn’t slide around.
Look at that, I’ve just improved the human condition! 😀
Great – people like me can count on tripping more often as their socks get hung up on the carpet – no shoes in the house…
think of them as cleats or hobnails
Hobnails. Yep. Just what I need inside my trailer!
You can march on Poland
WHY would I want to march on Poland? Isn’t it frozen like the Arctic tundra right now?
Easiest time to invade…
Perfect! So I’ll put you down for 27 pairs of socks?
Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhhh…Not.
you can go mountain climbing
Nah…I’m too lazy to climb mountains.
sigh
can’t have too many socks
wait… so your food doesn’t slide around?
Freudian slip.
thank goodness
ha
you are a renaissance man
I don’t really think it was sexist… I was just being goofy… it was more reverse sexism… and sure, I could spin a yarn… HA!
LOL! That you can 🙂
word
Yeah but can you dance-juggle though?
Not at the same time…
Disappointed isn’t the word. I kid, you’re magical 🙂
I really can juggle… and dance… to Grateful Dead music…
You can juggle? *squeals*
I got skillz…