Raising my head above the waterline

We have Internets! And zomigod, the weekend I had! I seriously need to do a big honking StrowlerCon post tonight—quite possibly two or three posts, as I find myself spilling over with tales to tell—but I wanted to chime in here to announce that I'm not dead, and to thank my fellow strowlers for such an amazing time. Love you all!

Shush, I'm working Step Four. *splat*

Still trying to come down from the StrowlerCon high, and just coming off of an amazing house concert with Sassafras and Heather Dale (I think it was pretty much a matter of "Heather! Don't leave yet!"), fiddle_dragon and I joined a boatload of awesome people for dinner here in Watertown: s00j and numath and the entire Gojirawitz clan and feste_sylvain and gows and crowfaery and her elfin wee one, crowded around the window table at Not Your Average Joe's. And so it came to pass that fiddle_dragon, gows and I got to talking about food and cooking, and talking about food and cooking dissolved into outright verbal food porn, and finally outright food porn led to the three of us composing the following right there on the dinner table, between the entrées and the fruit crumble:

The 12 Steps for Cooking Addicts

1) Keep doing that.
2) And make enough to share.
3) You gonna eat that?
4) Butter is not a bad thing.
5) Neither is raw sugar.
6) Thou shalt not skimp on the olive oil.
7) Avoid artificial anything.
8) Thou shalt not salt or pepper anything before tasting.
9) Some things are meant to be eaten rare.
10) Gluttony is a sin, but so is wasting food.
11) Food is always better with friends.
12) What's for dessert?

Also, we invented the concept of the "culinary fluffer." No, context doesn't make it any better.