Food brings us together

howdy do....it's friday.  but more importantly it is much better than last friday! i am lucky enough to have family around that will be taking the children for the night so that the husband and i can re-connect.  we've decided we are going to do something we haven't done in a long time; cook for fun! before kids and even after the first one, we'd cook together (even though i always wore the apron in the kitchen; don't you DARE take the lid off the rice before the timer goes off) laugh and enjoy all the prep work, aromas wafting about the house then enjoying whatever it was we created.  cooking for fun does not happen anymore. maybe once a year and i don't think we've done it together in about 7! isn't that sad?? life works like that. we have decided on a yummy indian dish; chicken biyrani.  there is a lot of prep work involved, incredible spices and of course the end result is amazing.  i have never made it from scratch and well, he hasn't either. so tonight we will cook, listen to christmas music, put the lights on the trees and just enjoy being together. what a gift!