The Crew @ At Least The Dog Will Eat It!

About Us

Me, The Sous Chef, The Taste Tester, The Little Weirdo, and The Picky Eater

Welcome to our little bark park of food!

Okay that was just weird, but then again, that would probably be a good way to sum up The Crew and this site. This is about me and my love of cooking, the dogs, and the poor wife (The Picky Eater) that has to put up with it all. This site got started because of a few FB posts The Picky Eater made about the food I had cooked for her and turned into a full blown hobby that has spiraled completely out of control. Ah, but you see, opening a restaurant is very expensive. I once heard that if you wanted to end up with $100K in the restaurant biz that you needed to start with $300K. Hosting prices are a lot more reasonable.

So, this is an odd little site about me becoming obsessed with cooking, dogs, and life in a small corner of nowhere in particular somewhere in Middle Tennessee. Hopefully you'll find the posts interesting, the stories at least mildly funny, and the food tasty.

Meet The Crew

Here, at At Least The Dog Will Eat It, we have an extensive crew of crack professionals making sure everything runs smoothly, tastes great, and looks it's best ... wait, no we don't. We don't have anything near that level of professionalism going on. What we do have is me, the long suffering Picky Eater, a dog to clean up the mess, pups for inspiration, and a whole lot of lets give this crazy idea a shot.

Somehow we keep this thing from going up in a big puff of smoke (and setting off the smoke alarms yet again)!

Murphy (a.k.a. The Sous Chef)

Murphy is the inspiration for the site (if the logo hadn't tipped you off). Like every dog he loved to eat, begged for a handout from the table, and would counter surf in a second. That is, unless I was in the kitchen cooking. Then he took his spot in the kitchen floor (actually he had two favorite places, on by the back door and one next to the garage door), and watch it all unfold - he even loved watching cooking shows on TV! He'd lay on the couch and actually watch the television if a cooking show was on. If he wasn't chasing birds in the backyard, or (in his early days) working as a therapy dog, he was camped out in the kitchen hoping that lamb chops were on the menu for tonight.

Gracie (a.k.a The Taste Tester)

Ah, sweet Gracie. She came to us in the worst sort of way. She was about 20lbs. under weight, covered in sores, infested with worms, full of broken or ground down teeth, and smelling to high heaven. She was also the sweetest little dog ever (I say little, but she was almost 60lbs. by the end) and absolutely loved food. She'd steal hot dog buns from the cabinet (I think Murphy helped on that one), she'd beg for table scraps with the most epic puppy dog eyes, and she'd still my mother-in-law's Christmas fruit cakes. That's why she's The Taste Tester - she wanted some of what everyone was having!

Siri (a.k.a. The Little Weirdo)

Meet Sirius the Schnauzer. Why Sirius you ask? Well she was named Star when she was given to The Picky Eater as a Christmas present. The Picky Eater didn't like that so I suggested Sirius after the Dog Star. The Picky Eater liked the idea but didn't think the name sounded much like a name for a girl. She already thought the little schnauzer looked too much like a boy, what with being jet black and sporting the big schnauzer mustache. So I shortened it to Siri. Now people think we really like our iPhones, which is a bit ironic since I use an Android. A strange name for a strange dog. Between perching on end tables, taking flying leaps from couch-to-chair-to-chair because dogs apparently play the floor is lava too, and manically trying to hide (and epically failing at) her chewies, she is one little weirdo for sure.

The Wife (a.k.a. The Picky Eater)

The long suffering Picky Eater. She once forced me to watch The Next Food Network Star and I'm sure she regrets it every time I destroy the kitchen and dirty all the pots and pans (ah, revenge - which is a lot more savory than they lead you to think). The nickname is right though. She can be a picky eater, which I have taken as a challenge! It doesn't help that she's also got some dietary health issues that actually do cause her to not be able to eat a lot of things. Those aren't the foods that have earned her the nickname though. No, we don't want her turning into a wheezing blister, it's the foods she can have but won't eat that are the challenge.

Me (a.k.a. Me)

I am a web developer/graphic designer/illustrator that started cooking when, after The Picky Eater forced me to watch a season of The Next Food Network Star, decided that it looked like a fun and could be a source of stress relief when the office got to be too much. In the years since It's become an almost all consuming pastime. Lucky for me, The Picky Eater is more than willing (usually) to be part of my experiments. I also rested assured that if things went off the rails too far, At Least The Dog Will Eat It!