Recipe Improviser Gifts

'Thaw for 24 hours. They should have told me that yesterday.'

"I was with you right up to the cumin."

Jazz is Invented

Lockdown casserole

The Hammer

Culinary Breakthroughs During Social Distancing

'OK, the worn out carpeting proves I snack too much. Only one thing to do. Tomorrow I get prices on hardwood floors.'

'Lets all thank Martha for her very innovative 'Hot Dog Crepes'.'

"Bill just does celebrity cook-books these days, that's where the real money is."

'I couldn't find my measuring cups, so I had to kind of wing it with the stuffing.'

'Cook is a musician. Improvises. Never makes the same thing twice.'

'What a day! - the computer broke down, and I had to cook manually!'

'It's amazing how many recipes you can find with courgettes in them when you have to'

'Well, you always said you wanted a water feature for the garden.'

The Augie Twins write music strictly for their own amusement.

"If you liked tonight's meal, you might enjoy 'Making The Meal,' a documentary with outtakes and commentary when the cook ran out of eggs because someone put an empty carton back in the refrigerator..."

"We'll have to eat out tonight - I misplaced the can opener."

Okay, let me guess...we're eating baked ham and meat loaf on a bed of fish sticks because you combined all the leftovers...

Eating raw cake mix.

"My trick for enjoying kale? I put in blueberries, a banana, a scoop of vanilla ice cream and ice. Then I throw the kale in the trash and blend."

"It's just until the air conditioning in our house is fixed."

Your Dinner Is In The Potato Skin

Washing Line - "I thought you wanted a clothes dryer."

Five seconds before the first turducken.

'We added on to the couch.'

"And I'm telling YOU it looks exactly like the picture. See?"

"I hope you like smoked salmon."

"You don't use a cookbook, Tia Carmen?"

"She'll only eat it if I cut it up in cloverleaf shapes, serve it on a blue plate, and do a little dance as I serve it."

'Someone added chocolate chips to all my recipe files. Do you know anything about that?'

'So, what part of the house are we delivering shock and awe to this weekend?'

'So one day I said to myself, 'What am I doing living in this run down house when I could be living on my boat?'