aka: How we let ourselves get talked into stuff.

When we were teenagers, my sister moved to Oh-So-Cool Northern California for a short time and when she came back home she'd become a true Kitchen Goddess.  She could make cream pies and homemade bread and savory stews and pretty much anything else she put her mind to.  Being a good older sister, she attempted to teach me to cook as well.

To say I was a miserable failure is laughable.  Suffice to say that, while I might have suspected the way to a man's heart was through his stomach, I never got one date with any guy who first ate my cooking!!

These days I can cook well enough to avoid poisoning anyone.  My preference is to let someone else do it and I'll clean up the kitchen.  I have a few things I make very well, but have never mastered creating a three-course meal from an empty fridge and pantry.  My sister, however, can still make anything she puts her mind to and oftentimes without the correct ingredients.

Recently it was suggested we do a food blog together.  When I got up from rolling around on the floor laughing hysterically, I decided it might not be a bad idea after all.  We'll do a blog, but we won't limit ourselves to just the kitchen and cooking.  We can usually find any number of things to do together and we generally include our daughters as well as friends and other relatives, and food is almost always involved in some manner, so this blog gives me a chance to chronicle our adventures in and out of the kitchen.

I'm actually excited to see what we come up with!!