He tried to rub down Triple Dad with pablano peppers and ancho chile powder.

You just told me all I need to know about dining at the Levin house.

btw, what you call "that much work" I simply call going to the grocery store once a week with a list. You have to go anyway, pick up some ingredients.

When I dated Emeril, I knew he was in the mood because he would always yell, "let's kick it up a notch!"

He never got past second base, though, even though his Essence is delicious.

If you came to the Levin house and were offered a meal with 20 ingredients, it would not be Mac 'n Cheese.

The smiling Italian lady on the Food Network who likes to show us her boobies is Giada De Laurentiis.

You really should expand your epicureanism.

There is a whole world out there.

If you eat mac and cheese, you have two choices....heat up your box of pasta and cheese sauce.....or.......spend some time and make something new. These dishes take on much more character than simple comfort food when they are layered with new ingredients. They cease to be sides and can be legitimate mains.

I am down for a meal at your pad, though. I will bring the mac and cheese.

Lebowski makes an awesome Mac 'n Cheese caserole. Toss in some macaroni, a little milk, a can of Cream of Mushroom, a handful of cheese. Slap that in the caserole dish and top with more cheese and some crumpled Lays. 425 for 25 minutes and you have yourself a dish any RSP would be proud of.

Hmm, I'll have to try that one.

In one of the areas I served in as a missionary, my companion was a native and the rest of us from the states. On one occasion, when it was the turn of one of the other Elders to make lunch, the kid - who had only been out for about 2 months or so - whipped up a batch of mac and cheese from scratch, though he used rigatoni rather than macaroni, as I never came across macaroni in Italy.

Anyway, my companion, who was always ready to eat (though he wasn't fat at all) sat in his seat, looked at what had been prepared, looked at the Elder who had made the meal and yelled "WHAT IS THIS ABOMINATION?"

After some prodding, he finally relented and ate it, but declared that from that day forth, if he was in the same apartment as this other Elder, my comp would cook the days the other kid was supposed to cook.

It was win-win. We ate his great cooking more often and that kid didn't have to cook for the next 2 months or so.

Il Pad, in reply to your post, Indy Coug is in a meeting with the Cub Scouts and asked me to post the following: