Julie & Julia & Food & Dreams- by Kathy

Yesterday I watched 'Julie & Julia', after which Lu and I created a list of what that movie made us wish we were:

• Successful bloggers
• Really good cooks
• Married to Stanley Tucci

It just seems unfair sometimes that we are so brilliant and talented and have extreme awesomeness in spades, and yet no one wants to offer us start-up capital to fund our genius.

Case in point:
As you have probably gathered, food is quite important to us here at Lincoln House.  It's more than just sustenance or calories or taste to us.  It's happiness.  It's companionship.  It's all sorts of Hallmark sentiments.  But it is also inspiration.  Not so much in a 'here's an original recipe that is going to blow your mind' way, but a 'here's an original idea of how you can incorporate food into every moment of your day even when you're not hungry/eating but simply sitting around doing crosswords and drinking wine and wishing you could enjoy the company of food without having to prepare/eat it' way.  Which obviously led us to invent savory candles.  We're not really a flowery bunch here, and not just because our cat eats any and all plants (including fake plants) that are brought into the house.  Nothing brings us greater joy than walking into the house when someone else is cooking something cheesy and garlicy.  Here is a sampling of the savory candles we wish we owned:

• Sauteed onions, garlic and green peppers
• Toast
• Maple Bacon
• Texas Toast
• Grilled Cheese

No one's house ever naturally smells of lavender, or vanilla roses, or mountain spring air.  Burning candles with those scents not only doesn't make sense, it makes you a liar.

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In any case, we have also decided to start documenting our ideas so if someone steals them we can sue those dirty scoundrels for millions of dollars and end up with our own start-up capital.  Be warned.