Coming up to our third date, Surfer Boyfriend sent a text while I was at work one blah afternoon:
“How about dinner at my house tonight?”
Getting serious with dating on school night, I was even more thrilled by the prospect of my new boyfriend cooking ME dinner. Woohoo!
“I’ll pick you up and then we can go grocery shopping,” he wrote.
A man who took charge. I liked that.
Only for it to be short lived.
Arriving at Coles, he turns to me as we hit the vegetable aisle, “So, whaddaya going to cook for dinner tonight?”
“Er, hello? What?”
“Well, I can only make one thing – lemon meringue pie.”
The cheeky bugger cleverly implied that, sure, there will be dinner. And of course, it will be at his house. He just WON’T be the one making it. Unless I wanted pie.
So, I did what any respectable young woman who was put on the spot did.
I made him the spiciest chicken stir fry. Ever.
Subsequently giving him nonstop hiccups. Oops.
Since that fateful cook up, Mr Surfer has mastered many a simple, quick dinner – spaghetti Bolognese, his own version of a chicken stir fry (no spices, of course).
Is it then pure coincidence that a week shy of our 6th wedding anniversary – symbolized with IRON – my beloved was secretly honing in on his own IRON CHEF skills?
And before I could say salmon skin roll, I was served with homemade sushi, painstakingly made with love, an integral bamboo mat and tea towel wrapped around his head.
“Tadah! Sushi – Aussie Style!”
Why he thought I needed an entire tube of wasabi, is beyond me. Maybe he was paying me back for his hiccup episode?
Happy 6th wedding anniversary, Mr Surfer!
Who needs wasabi? You’ll always be hot to me.
Any gift suggestions for the 6th “iron” wedding anniversary? Does spicy food give you the hiccups? Ever mistaken wasabi for pistachio ice cream?
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Aww! That’s cute.
I didn’t know what Wasabi was. I thought it was avocado. So I piled it on because I LOVE avocado. I nearly died. Right there in the shopping centre outside the sushi store at Noosa Junction. It went up the back of my nose and directly to my sinus. Hells bells. There tears …
I have no idea what to by for an iron birthday other than a voucher for an ironing service?
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Hahaha Leanne! OMG! Thanks for the giggle, that would have been hilariously traumatic!
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Reminds me of Mater and the “Pistachio Ice cream” 😉
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Aww! That’s cute.
I didn’t know what Wasabi was. I thought it was avocado. So I piled it on because I LOVE avocado. I nearly died. Right there in the shopping centre outside the sushi store at Noosa Junction. It went up the back of my nose and directly to my sinus. Hells bells. There were tears …
I have no idea what to by for an iron birthday other than a voucher for an ironing service?
Leanne @ Deep Fried Fruit recently posted..Day 2212 – AC/DC Rock or Bust World Tour
What a cheeky bugger! Haha. Oh well, he must have made up for it since you married him! 🙂 Happy 6th Anniversary!
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Happy Anni lovebirds! I think spicy is nicey so the hotter the better! For year six, the alternative is candy, so of course we went with a sweet theme! If you really want to stick at the iron thing, after all your running, you can be Iron Woman to your man’s Surfy Spice! Enjoy the loveness! xx
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Had a bad experience with wasabi years ago when I thought it was some delightful, smooth sauce to go with my meal. Green should be cool-tasting after all?
Happy Anniversary to you both!
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Haha, cheeky bugger 🙂 good on you with the stir fry of fire. Still, home made sushi is pretty impressive, so he’s come a long way. Happy anniversary x
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Happy Anniversary – and too cute! My partner can make sushi (well, he’s the cook, I’m the surfer chef in this story…but I can’t make lemon merangue pie either – or spell it apparently) I’m impressed with the patience of sushi chefs….
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Happy anniversary guys! Homemade sushi is alwsys a winner, he’s done well :). Looks pretty proud of himself too haha!
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Congrats guys. I have attempt home made sushi and it was a complete failure – well done Mr Surfer.
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Happy anniversary ! My man can’t make home made sushi yet. He’s got a bit of learning to do. Maybe I need to start to adding a bit more spice to spur him on 😉
Happy Anniversary! Homemade lemon meringue pie is pretty impressive! I would have just gone with that for dinner! I had a good laugh about you spicy chicken stir fry however. What a spicy relationship right from the start – hehe!
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Oh thats so sweet! Happy anniversary lovely lady! PS – Dave is the sushi masterchef at our house too (I’m really terrible at rolling it!).
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How gorgeous! Love a man that grows into cooking!
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Happy anniversary Grace! So lovely that Mr. Surfer went to the trouble to make you sushi.
The first meal John ever made me was steamed omelette with scallops and oyster sauce, and I knew he was a keeper.
Have a gorgeous weekend xx
Lisa@RandomActsOfZen recently posted..Walking Through Mud
Aww, that is sweet. Maybe an iron skillet so he can hone those expert cooking skills
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Awww happy anniversary you guys!!
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Happy Anniversary! Wow he has come a long way, good for him with the homemade sushi!
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Happy anniversary! Yum, I love sushi! I recently bought a sushi roller/maker that has made it A LOT easier to make at home 🙂
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Hahaha, I don’t know I think I would have accepted his lemon meringue pie! Happy 6th Wedding Anniversary Grace! x
That’s so sweet he went to cooking school to learn how to make something other than Lemon Meringue Pie.
My man has made spaghetti Bolonaise on most Saturday nights for 10 years – on occasion he mixes it up and does a simple seafood spag dish.
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Oh that’s so sweet! It was my 6th wedding anniversary this year too but….we did not give presents…pretty sad we didn’t actually.
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Happy anniversary guys, I am so not an adventurous eater but I will have a slice or two of lemon meringue pie anytime!
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Bahaha good on you for making him spicy food after he made you cook dinner!
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Happy anniversary. Love an Iron Chef twist on an iron anniversary. (I think the suggestion for an ironing service is pretty cool … anything but an actual iron).
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Happy anniversary! We recently celebrated our tenth by going away without the kids – kind of blissful.
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Happy Anniversary Grace. I always say the couple that plays together stays together! He looks like a lot of fun.
Except for that part where he misled you about cooking dinner. haha!
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This is such a sweet post 🙂 I once mistook wasabi for a piece of avocado. Popped the whole thing in my mouth and almost had a heart attack!
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Happy anniversary to you both! The wasabi is absolutely payback. No question. Haha.
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Iron??! Man that seems a but unromantic. Who made these themes up????
I want to hear more about the lemon meringue pie!!
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