Way Past Due Post

Sorry for the late Thanksgiving post, but hope everyone had a great holiday and now its time to get things started for one of the best holidays of all time. But before that let me tell you that this thanksgiving, I had a great time with family, but the food was blah. Technically, its all my fault, because I'm in charge of the food, but I just don't know what happened.

I'm notoriously known around friends and family for my inability to cook. After copious amounts of begging, groveling and doing demeaning favors, the family allowed me to cook for the holiday. Honestly, I think that they were too lazy to do anything on that day and just said screw it you can slave over a hot stove this year. So I started weeks before, researching simple recipes that we would like and even got a porn magazine for food aka Food Network Magazine to help me out. I have a tendency to fudge a bit on the ingredients, for instance if 1cup of sugar is too much I'll only put 2/3cup. Not this year I went all out but...

Only the ham and the baklava came out good, the rest were...

Dinner Rolls. My goodness the magazine screwed me over something fierce in this lie of a recipe.

A pretzel batter that didn't hold shape.
Store bought apple pie because some things shouldn't be left in my hands.
My famed and successful baklava.

Geez. I don't think that I'll ever make it in the cooking or food styling industry, but this year no one got food poisoning and for that I am ever so grateful. Next year I'm giving up.

I am going on a family vacation, minus the dad who conveniently forgot we had a planned vacation six months in advance and said that he has to work, to Orlando. I've been there several time so I don't know what to even do there but at least its a vacation. Yay!