It's Friday

*Clears throat* I'm a good cook! Really, I am. This past week I couldn't prove that. I've got quite a few cookbooks and pulled one out to find an old, recipe for a chocolate cake I've been craving. First, let me say baking is not cooking - at least in my book. Second, I do not claim to be even a decent baker! So why try to bake a cake you may ask? Because I somehow manage to catch a cupcake show every morning around 3a.m. They make it look so easy, and so darn good.

Recipe in hand, mixing bowls everywhere, and oven heating up, I proceeded to cut the recipe in half as usual because a whole cake goes to waste in my house. I'm a chips and dip girl and sweets don't usually excite me and after a slice or two, I'm done with it. But I never got that far. To make a long story short, I forgot to cut the salt and baking soda in half and ended up with a chocolate volcano spilling onto the oven burners and the mess was... well, it was bad!

All of this made me think of men in the kitchen, so I thought I'd post a couple pictures of a few of the food world's sexy cooks. Yes, Gordon Ramsey tops my list, the other two, Curtis Stone and Michael Symon, are pretty damn scrumptious too - in my book.

Needless to say, I'm sticking with box mixes unless one of the guys above should pop in. :)

Growl and roar-it's okay to let the beast out.-© J. Hali Steele