Dream Dinners

Lots of you know that I do the Dream Dinner thing. If you don't know what that is, go to www.dreamdinners.com. It's a place where you go to put together dinners. It's very cool. They have all the ingredients, the recipes, the containers... everything's ready for you! The meals are a little more special than your everyday comfort foods. Put it this way, I would never make any of them; too complicated, too many ingredients, too fancy, plus, I'm a horrible cook. However, they make everything pretty easy for you. You sign up and pick a date to go to your session. I was very, very impressed with the cleanliness of the place and the organization. It's just very, very convenient. It's all good...

Anyway, tonight we had the Apricot Glazed Pork Chops. Easy to prepare and a very flavorful meal. Again, nothing I would ever make. Pat scraped off the apricot sauce from the top of his pork chops.

About a month ago, I had signed up for a session but something came up and I couldn't go. The gals at the shop were nice enough to prepare my meals for me, and I went a day later, and they were all ready for me... Nice huh? Well, shortly after that, Joe prepared a Strada (again, nothing I would ever make, but it was good). He complained after we ate it that night, that something was stuck in his throat. I told him to eat a piece of toast, it will go down.... Again, later that night with the complaining!!!! OMG Joe, go eat a piece of toast with peanut butter or something.... The next day, same thing, again with the "Honey, it's still stuck in my throat." Ok, Joe, either go to the ER or eat another piece of toast. We went to a basketball game that night. Before the game, we went out to eat, we had a nice dinner, everything was just fine...We had ribs I think.... I didn't hear anything about the throat, the ribs and the fries went down aok, and I didn't give it another thought. Then, we're at the game, and I happen to look over at Joe.... Well, he's sitting there coughing and coughing, I'm like, "Honey, why don't you go get a drink or something, you're bothering people." He chokes and chokes, and up comes a piece of.... OMG, it's about a inch long wooden TOOTHPICK! A piece of a wooden toothpick was stuck in my husband's throat for 24 hours care of Dream Dinners! Can you believe that?

I called our gals at Dream Dinners and told them the story. They use toothpicks for various things, and explained that somehow, mistakenly, one must have fell into my Strada. They have since barred toothpicks from the food stations.

So, all you people out there who use Dream Dinners, you can all thank Joe for single-handedly instituting the new no-toothpicks-at-the-station policy, hence, preventing any toothpick catastrophies like this in the future.

You would think perhaps this might make me stop using Dream Dinners.... I don't think so.... Hey, he's fine!!!!! He can take it!!!! He's a big strong man with strong, strong throat muscles!!! I need my Dream Dinners, and my girls tow the line now! Thanks to Joe and the toothpick incident of '06.

So, there happened to be a toothpick in Joe's meal????? Just think about it, makes him that much more appreciative of my fine culinery skills.