I talk about my mother on here from time to time, but my Dad has been lucky enough(until now that is) to avoid being featured on the blog. I get my love of baking, being in the kitchen and entertaining from my mom. However, it was my dad who really introduced me to a variety of foods. He still claims to this day the worst thing he ever did was introduce me to avocados because now when I am home we fight over them(we even arm wrestled once for the last one in the house). One time on one of our many “life lessons”, my father made my brother and I pile into the car and we went and saw a horrible movie, I want to say it was called King of the City. I remember very little about it except for the hooker who had a razor blade under her fingernail and killed her “John” in the car with it. A truly uplifting movie as you can see. We then drove around the slums. Next week we got all dressed up and went to a fancy restaurant where I got to have my own lobster(up to that … [Read more...]