Waste Not, Want Not
My husband has Selective Frugality. I suppose this is fairly common as I know many people who drive 5 miles out of their way to save 2 cents per gallon on gas then buy a $4 coffee. In my husband's case, he is Mr. Reuses-aluminum- foil-but-pays-$35-for-a-Harley-t-shirt. I'm sure he would say the same thing about me, although he would be wrong as I am a savvy consumer, always choosing the best price for the value (cough, cough).
I've also mentioned here that my husband is a good cook. It should be noted that he normally cooks with quality ingredients and does not favor the recipes calling for cream of mushroom soup and crushed potato chips. But he has created a rather...interesting dish called "Leftover Sauce Chicken." You know those little sauce packets you get with take-out or fast food? We toss what we don't use in a canister. And at a certain point (think years) we have a lot of little sauce packets. Duck Sauce from the China One. BBQ from the Bono's. Sweet & Sour and Honey Mustard from McDonalds. You get the idea. So he opens them all up, dumps them into a pan and cooks them with chicken. Here's the weird part: it's really delicious. Everything the dude touches turns to yummy. I like that in a man.
WOW. I want to be able to cook like that. If I did that, it would probably end up tasting like turpentine!
Posted by: jen | November 06, 2007 at 09:11 AM
AHA! Now I know what to do with all those dang packets. I keep the packets of peppers from pizza places with them. That should make for a REALLY interesting sauce.
Posted by: DD | November 06, 2007 at 09:14 AM
"Everything the dude touches turns to yummy."
Is it wrong that I am only thinking dirty thoughts about you? Further to that, is it wrong that I am thinking that said dirty thoughts cannot possibly be true as you are *gasp* married and well, we all know what married people don't do?
Posted by: SarcastiCarrie | November 06, 2007 at 10:02 PM
I love that in my hubby too. He's a WAY better cook than me.
Posted by: Amanda | November 07, 2007 at 09:05 AM
"Left Over Sauce Chicken" Brilliant!
Posted by: Ninotchka | November 07, 2007 at 09:32 AM
I'm sure my husband would think dirty thoughts about "everything he touches turns to yummy" too. Of course, he thinks dirty thoughts about everything.
And of course we don't do "that"-- we wouldn't want the kids to ever suspect it because it would major gross them out. (if they even knew what "that" is, of course)
Posted by: Kristine | November 08, 2007 at 09:31 AM