the great mystery of our weekend

this is the mystery item, although the picture was a late idea. it looks a bit nastier than it was when dinner was served.

so we survived our first weekend in korea. the kids and i are slowly adjusting our sleep schedule, but that being said, we have slept some crazy hours in the past few days. take today, for example, we laid around--sleeping off and on, until 10:30 this morning, took a nap around 3 and didn't wake up until 7. it is now almost 10 at night and mya is out for the night with the rest of us to follow her lead shortly. i guess we are all exhausted. anyway, back to the post---i love to cook and i am pretty decent at it. thankfully, i had great teachers along the way--my mom and grandma. they are/were awesome cooks. i also love to cook for others. really. i am not the most social person in the world, but i really love making something wonderful for others to enjoy. our vision for the rest of our life is to entertain--alot. night number one of entertaining is officially under our belts--not that it really was entertaining per say. my husband's best friend/best man is also stationed here without his family. he is like family to us and always welcome at our house. however, we invited him over for dinner last night. the plan was to have a good old fashioned steak (just for you j, lo, and lisa--i love my meat ;), corn on the cob, salad, fresh cut peaches, rice with pecan pie for dessert. that was the plan. sounds delicious--right? mmm. hmmm. it would have been if it weren't for the mystery vegetable. chris picked it up from the commissary--he claims it was with the other vegetables and the only of it's kind. he also claims it was not displayed with gourds, pumpkins or other decorative items. hmmm. i am not so sure because this clearly was not meant to be consumed by humans. they called it corn, but perhaps they meant corn feed? or indian corn? the occasional purple kernel on one cob was a pretty good warning sign as was the white color that greeted us as we shucked away the husks. regardless, we cooked it, ate it--or rather mark then i tried it, and decided it was not edible. very nasty. now the question remains, what exactly was that stuff? commissary was closed today, but you can bet your bottom dollar that we will be investigating this matter further.