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Going out on valentines day is insanely frustrating. Even with reservations everywhere is swamped and grouchy. I stay at home and cook

The only way we eat frozen pizza is by modifying it. We add a bunch of shredded cheese and either leftover meat from the night before or freshly cooked meats like bacon and kielbasa :-)

I made these over the weekend and they came out great. Everyone loved them. I did use vanilla bean paste instead of vanilla so it had a richer taste, but other than that, they were very tasty. I need to do some work on making them hold together better, but I only had about 1/4 lose their tips. I did discover if I lightly misted the rolls with cold water before pressing with the rolling pins, it helped stick together better.

I really like their chocolate chip cookie dough flavor, it surprised me a lot. I was pretty disappointed with the dark chocolate peanut butter, it tasted like cardboard mixed with chocolate. I may have to try the cocoa banana again, I never got past the chemical-like taste.

I don't know if this counts as a good taco memory, but for me the most memorable time I've had regarding tacos was the time a friend introduced me to Sriracha sauce (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sriracha). I hit the ground running and have never looked back, I use that sauce in so many applications now, but always with my tacos !

I guess the only other memory I could offer would be one from just a year or two ago when I was making tacos and my partner commented on how messy my tacos were when compared to his and I stated 'If a taco isn't messy, it isn't a taco!' That gets brought up every time Imake us tacos now ;-)

Wow, shades of Gusteau's!

There was a parody book out a number of years ago "Patty and Selma's Guide to Cooking with Tobacco" so I gotta go with it being their main food source :-)

Sugar! Sweet n Low tastes nasty if you accidentally get a bit by itself, and not much better mixed with beverages.

*sniffle* I feel so cheated, the progresso chicken broth sample I was sent this week came in plain ol cardboard!

Lots of additional pics of the event are here: http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,4644,4955,00.html

I have an odd thing to add about tipping. Sometimes people tip well but someone snakes their tip before it can get to the waiter/waitress. I still vividly remember one time when I was on vacation in the mountains and I went to this little diner type place for dinner. The waitress was very friendly and the food was decent, I'd stayed almost 2 hours drinking my beverages and snacking on food (the place was fairly empty anyway), and the waitress had encouraged me to stay as long as I liked, chatting me up about her kids, her dog, the locals, etc. I ended up tipping $10 on my $10 bill (left two $10 bills). Then I got up to use the restroom before leaving and as I came back, I saw the busboy clearing my table - including sticking his hand in the check, snagging one of the $10 and sticking it in his apron! So I was left with a dilemma, leave like that and have her think I was a cheap tourist, or cough up some more $. I decided to cough up more $ obviously, but just bear in mind, if you don't grab the check quick enough, it may not always be the customer being cheap, someone may have decided to steal your well earned $ :-(

I'm quite glad to see this, I saw these at the store this weekend and had considered picking some up next week. I'll be skipping them now :-)