On the 2nd day of Christmas my true love gave to me...

Dinner on the table when I got home from work...

Okay, so the meal was tacos and didn't require a serious amount of skill, but I have a limited number of days in which I plan to account for all 12 days of Christmas, so this is where I'm fitting this one in :) 

First and foremost, have you ever had someone cook you dinner while you were on your way home from work so that when you walked in the door there was no question that you were required to do nothing more than sit down and eat?  It's awesome!  Make someone do it for you sometime!  I'm fortunate enough to have a husband that enjoys cooking and I get this treatment from him far more often than he does from me.  I'm a very lucky woman.

Second, the fact that I'm so appreciative of a taco dinner should most definitely not take away from the kind of cook my husband is.  Tacos were my suggestion, but he can do far more than ground beef and shredded lettuce.  For example, he's the only one who can cook a steak exactly the way I like it (even though the thought of a medium rare steak makes him sick).  Others are good... his are amazing!  But his skill definitely doesn't end at the grill.  He can fry up a pork chop like nobody's business.  And would you believe he's a hell of a baker too?  He's perfected homemade bread and makes a killer pie.  Give him a recipe and he can do it.  More frustrating for me, however, is his ability to throw something together with no recipe at all.  This is a skill I do not possess.  I would say my cooking is mediocre at best, making me appreciate his cooking even more.  He's most definitely a keeper!

And I'll take a home cooked meal over two turtle doves any day :)