Bobby Flay

We have a history Bobby Flay and I since Aurora was about 3 months old. She was going through a colicky period but when ever he was on TV she would turn toward his voice and calm down completely. Needless to say we watched A LOT of Food network. I've always thought his food looked amazing and several years ago I bought his MESA grill cookbook and to this day have never made a single recipe. The ingredient list is a bit intimidating and unusual and until now I had easy access to all the Mexican I could possibly want so why go to all the effort. There was also the factor of I didn't feel my culinary skills were strong enough to achieve the end result. I do now. One of things that moving here has done for me has made me a better cook since we don't have the option of eating out much and even if we do its usually not what I'm craving. I can bake almost anything now, and my hope is to be able to cook almost anything as well. One of the things Ben and I have missed the most is Mexican food. In Texas thats the cheap eat out meal and DANG I miss it! So I have issued myself a challenge. I'm going to cook almost his entire book. I say almost because I cant get some of the ingredients I need and there are a couple recipes that we just flat out don't want to eat. I also just ordered two more of his cookbooks and am so excited to get and try those recipes as well! Maybe I will be an amazing cook one day.

Does anyone else's dream vacations revolve around food and cooking classes like mine do? One day I will: Go to the Lobster Festival in Maine, Spend a week at a cooking class in New Orleans, Eat my way through New York City and attend as many Theater productions and go to as many museums as possible, Go to cooking classes in Italy and learn how to make amazing seafood and tour all of Rome- the most plausible right now. I would also like to go back to Singapore( we'd like to move there some day). I guess my one non related vacation is I want to go to Ireland and rent a cottage on the beach and just absorb the beautiful scenery,let my kids play on the beach and listen to Irish people talk to my hearts content , oh and the jewelry I should start saving now.Ireland is number one on my to do before I die list and is scheduled for Summer 2012. Needless to say if anything happened to Ben and I decided to remarry I think I would go camp myself there until I could convince some man with an incredible accent and red hair to marry me, if not I think I could be single for the rest of my days.-Random huh?! Lets hope nothing ever happens to Ben!

* No, I'm not a big lover of French food or people so I don't have any desire to go to Paris and take classes.The Italians though.... why am I not Italian, Chinese and Mexican? That would be one interesting mix!Instead I'm German and English. I come from the people that make and eat the worlds most boring, disgusting and bland food. Seriously who though of eating fermented cabbage( sauerkraut)or head cheese( just looking at it makes me want to be sick)?!