Cosmo's Food for Thought

Well here we are Ella Mae is a house mom/cook and I am a cook/house dad.  It's our first night in the apartment and we are about to be abruptly initiated into college life.  If you remember this is mid January and colder than a you know what and we decide to take a stroll down M street. We are immediately shocked to have a streaker run past us, than after reaching the end of the street, turn around so we can now say we have seen him coming and going and I really mean see, him!   If anyone remembers the George moment in a Seinfeld episode, shrinkage, should come to mind!   So we now realized we were not in Kansas anymore.  Oh how appropriate it was to have our inaugural night start this way, even if it was just a small thing.    In Pi Phi we were very fortunate to have a no alcohol policy.  Since this was a dry house the only drinks being served were the ones at the local pubs or the many frat parties that ran most every weekend.  This ma...

It is now fall 2006 and Ella Mae and I continue with our unique duties.  We have dinner together, (but not alone) whenever possible, in the dinning room filled with lots of activity and chatter.  The ladies are catching up on each others studies, their latest love and even taking a momentary bite of food.   I really am loving the energy and all the constant coming and going.  College classes can run late into the night, so there is this continuing motion and sometimes, controlled chaos.  I am feeling pretty satisfied and proud because I am responsible for this very meal.  EM has just left her house where she has cooked for the 'boys', and we both are feeling good about that.  We do worry sometimes, because you never know if tonight's dinner is a home run or not.  In EM's case she will find out the next morning, but I have the pleasure or displeasure of instant analysis.  The rage now is these new TV food shows, where the cooks compete to...