On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:14:30 -0700, Terry Pulliam Burd
> wrote:

>I've always been a fair cook, but a less than stellar baker. My pies
>always taste great, but often look as if they'd been assembled by a
>three year old. The DH had asked for a certain menu for his birthday
>dinner today, but kept changing the requested dessert. He finally
>settled on...chocolate eclairs. Now who, I ask you, actually makes
>these things? You go to the bakery and point at the sinful beggars and
>haul 'em home, right? Well, in a demented moment (I think a few
>glasses of chardonnay was involved), I boasted that I could make 'em.
>And make 'em, I did. And what astonished me was: they turned out
>*great*! Mind you, like my pies, their appearance was a bit addled (I
>didn't have the proper tip for the pastry bag, for a start), but
>everyone raved about them:
>
Great looking recipe snipped and saved.

Wow Squeaks, good on you.

You are not a "fair" cook, anyone that's been lucky enough to attend a
cookin' with you knows better.

DH is one lucky guy.

Koko
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