I noted your absence and filed it under "Anyone who is moving is allowed to have a day or so to freak out and be too busy to do anything but attend to the immmediate to-do list".
When my husband was in residency, one of his patients, a delightful - if medically complex - woman, published a cookbook, and dedicated it to him. My husband is a tall, fit, and very handsome fellow, and this kind of thing tends to happen to him, and he is always genuinely puzzled and humbled by it, poor innocent dear.
Well, anyway, we were both delighted and honored by the dedication and perused the volume together to find a recipe to test so we could write in our thank you note what we enjoyed about it. We could not find a single recipe we could bear to make. There were several different kinds of donuts, all of which she insisted must be deep-fat fried in lard. Ummmmm...No. Just no. And every single other recipe called for either hot dogs [Hot Dog Stroganoff was one] or mini-marshmallows, canned pineapple, and maraschino cherries in combination. I've hated hot dogs since childhood, and while mini-marshmallows are good in hot chocolate, fresh pineapple is nice, and we tolerate a cherry on the toothpick in our Shirley Temple, the combination is way too over-the-top on sweet.
Instead we wrote to say how honored he was, and how we were unable to say which was our favorite recipe because we were having such trouble deciding among the many available choices.
So cheer up, Jack. It could be twenny kindz of JelloTM mold, with twenny diffrent proporshuns of marshmellows, marasheeno cherriez, and pineappul.
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When my husband was in residency, one of his patients, a delightful - if medically complex - woman, published a cookbook, and dedicated it to him. My husband is a tall, fit, and very handsome fellow, and this kind of thing tends to happen to him, and he is always genuinely puzzled and humbled by it, poor innocent dear.
Well, anyway, we were both delighted and honored by the dedication and perused the volume together to find a recipe to test so we could write in our thank you note what we enjoyed about it. We could not find a single recipe we could bear to make. There were several different kinds of donuts, all of which she insisted must be deep-fat fried in lard. Ummmmm...No. Just no. And every single other recipe called for either hot dogs [Hot Dog Stroganoff was one] or mini-marshmallows, canned pineapple, and maraschino cherries in combination. I've hated hot dogs since childhood, and while mini-marshmallows are good in hot chocolate, fresh pineapple is nice, and we tolerate a cherry on the toothpick in our Shirley Temple, the combination is way too over-the-top on sweet.
Instead we wrote to say how honored he was, and how we were unable to say which was our favorite recipe because we were having such trouble deciding among the many available choices.
So cheer up, Jack. It could be twenny kindz of JelloTM mold, with twenny diffrent proporshuns of marshmellows, marasheeno cherriez, and pineappul.