Baklava Baklava Hummus!

So here it is! Finally! The long anticipated baklava blog. Hmmm....baklava...how I love thee...I was actually inspired to try making this as I was watching the oh so wonderful and amazing travel channel! Some British chef was making Egyptian style bakalava while actually in Egypt. I thought that was pretty cool. Anyway, so when my brother called the next day inviting Lili and me over for dinner and assigning us dessert, I knew exactly what to make! It's actually quite easy. It takes a bit of preparation time, but fun to make and extremely worth it after it's all done. It ended up being a bit soggier than normal baklava is supposed to be, but next time... next time it will be much better! Watch out Iron Chef Bobby Flay! Here comes your next challenger! (totally kidding!) The recipe I followed was actually a video recipe so here's the link if anyone's interested:

http://video.about.com/mideastfood/Baklava-Recipe.htm

Jeff's House o' Ribs Grand Reopening!

So, believe it or not, I have decided to resurrect my blog! I'm a little reserved in promising any specific life expectancy for this writing revival, but hopefully as fun things happen I'll be able to make some time to write a few things about the event. I'm thinking this will help me when my parents ask on our traditional Sunday evening calls, "so what did you do this week?" It's usually at that point that my mind goes blank and I probably come off as the "boring" one of the family. But things really do happen mom and dad (and everyone else, I guess), I promise! Fun things even. Yes, fun. So here it goes!