Culinary Contest

I spent two hours in the kitchen today trying out a couple of recipes before I enter the culinary contest at work. So glad I decided to try out the recipes one more time before signing myself up. After two hours of standing on my feet (they still hurt), both dishes, although hubby liked one of them, were only "edible" by my standards. I can't enter into a culinary contest with edible food... What was I thinking? I think I'll give up cooking and stick with "preparing food" from now on... they'll still be edible and hubby likes most of them... and it takes a lot less time than two hours... and I am not counting the time that will take me to clean up the mess that's still in the kitchen. :(