This I Believe

The dining table is the most important piece of furniture in the home.

There is no amount of barking a dog can do that can’t be quenched with a chicken stick.

Cranberry chutney on turkey cutlets is really yummy.

Home-grown tomatoes taste best.

Prayer might seem pointless but you never know how much worse it would be if you hadn’t prayed.

Dishes with chickens on them rock.

There is such a thing as doing too much.

If a doctor told me I had to stop eating cheese or die I’d put my affairs in order.

Some of the best food in the world is stuffed with other food.

We have more to fear from our own government than we do any other power on earth.

It’s really cool when the moon shines just so through the trees.

Steve Martin is a genius.

There’s nothing more snuggable than a child who is just waking up. Unless it is one that is just falling asleep.

Stuff with bees on them are really cool, especially if the stuff is from France. (Representations of bees, that is. Actual bees would be kind of creepy).

Some things really satisfy, including but not limited to: steel cut oats with plenty of brown sugar and cream, good black coffee, lasagne, applesauce cake. Also, bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches.

There are three times and conditions that are damn near perfect: early morning with a hot cup of coffee, hot summer afternoons with a gin and tonic and late evening, curled up on the couch.

It doesn't matter how much the wine cost, it matters what it tastes like.

Salt and vinegar potato chips are against God's plan.