Making the Grade | Pepper Tree Steaks N’ Wines

BY STACEY WALLACE

As I’ve mentioned numerous times in this column, my husband Mike and I love to eat but intensely dislike cooking. Now, we have family and friends who love to cook; we don’t understand them, but we really love and appreciate them. As someone (I don’t remember who), once said, “What if I spent all day cooking, and then I dropped dead? I would have wasted my last day on Earth.” My thoughts exactly. My sweet husband Mike is the dishwasher in our home, and he doesn’t enjoy it at all. He says, “Somehow, our sink grows dishes over night.” Therefore, we love for other people to cook our food and clean up after us. Recently, Mike and I found a great place which does those two important tasks: Pepper Tree Steaks N’ Wines at 2459 E. Glenn Ave. in Auburn. Pepper Tree opened in Octob