We are having our next Rock Band night at our house this Saturday and I am again making some wings and what goes with Wings?? Blue Cheese of course!!

However there is a very real problem with Blue Cheese, I hate it. I can't stand it, never liked it, never will.  I want to make my own, this will prove to be a challenge for someone that doesn't eat it. I hope I am up for the challenge.  

I am  thinking that I need Blue cheese, well duh right??

Either SourCream or Mayonnaise or both maybe for the creamy liquid.  - I know sounds disgusting, but whatever.

I think some kind of Garlic or Onion in there as well as a background flavor but who knows.

I'll report back with how it turns out. 

Reporting Back : The blue cheese dressing according to my guests came out great. Wohoo, the biggest issue for me and cooking is I don't measure anything so I have a hard time telling people how to cook what I  cook. I have to get better at it.

Sorry for the bad pun but sometimes you just have to right?

Last night the kids went to bed the masters was over and I finished watching Full Metal Jacket (awesome movie BTW) I decided that I would try my hand at the drums on Rock Band.  In our little gathering I do not play drums, My wife and 1 of our friends do. I play Bass and have been moving up the Guitar Difficuilty to the point where I can finish some songs on Expert. I am a decent Hard guitarist. That being said, I do want to be able to play the drums so I decided to set it up and create a new band and get to drumming.

I started it up and found out that I am not as bad as I thought I would be. I managed to finishe completely my first two venues with only have difficuilty with one song, Time We Had by The Mother Hips [will come back to insert link]. The wierd bass drum pattern and the change of the cymbal snare combo had me thrown all off.  I am finding that it is more fun then I initially had with the drums when I first started as well.

I thought that song was hard and had told my wife about it because I had never heard the song.  So I fired it up for her and wow I was impressed, she got a 98% on Medium and had to go at it on hard. I was not just going to sit there so I powered on the guitar and played it on hard with her. She got 84% and I got  92% and I decided I could do the song on expert so we went at it again and and She got 86% on hard again and I got 96% on expert.

I will be back at it again this evening to continue the world domination. 

Me and the wife have been playing much more rockband recently and we are starting to get better, We challenged both our first co-op Hard song and Expert song last night and while the expert song was not pretty it was finished without anyone dying.

I have also come to the conclusion that Rock Band in part has strengthened our Marriage, with all the money, health and job issues we have been fighting a lot more recently and it was begining to take it's on our relationship. We don't have the money to go out as a simple dinner costs almost 100 bucks when combined with the cost of a babysitter so we have to get our entertainment with the kids. While I love my kids sometimes it is nice to just be me and not be Dad.  So we started having friends over on Saturdays and doing dinner and then putting the kids to bed and then enjoying our friends and some rock band, along with a few adult beverages ;). 

The past few weeks we have started playing a couple nights a week, just her and I and have been truly having fun. It has allowed us to have fun with each other again and allow us to find parts of each other that we had forgotten about. Looking forward to more.