Okay. Happy Valentine’s Day and I love you guys, all that shit. 

This isn’t exactly the post I imagined writing for Valentine’s Day, but here we are.

I have a lot of recipes on my computer.  I lovingly typed each one in.  Some are from family recipe cards, some are from cookbooks, but most are from the several websites that send me e-mails every day with new recipes. 

Sometimes when they send me new recipes, they try to make a mystery of it – you have to click on “See the Recipe” before you know what it is.

I don’t like that much.  Just tell me what it is so I can decide whether to save or delete.  I’m old, I don’t have time for this shit.

Today I got one of those emails.

I open it and it’s for

CHILI WITH CORN

Mother of God (TIDBI) – are they trying to KILL me?  .

Either one of those things will do a number on my fat old lady bowels

BUT TOGETHER? 

(Why even eat it?  It’s going to be unchanged from one end to the other.)

I swear just seeing the recipe title sent me into fight or flight response.  My mind froze and the rest of me was just struck down in horror at the thought.

Clearly, I am not in the demographic for this recipe group. 

And here are some holiday words of wisdom – do NOT have chili with corn for Valentine’s Day.   At least, not if you have any after dinner plans.