Weekend Plans Post: Time for Spaghetti Sauce Again
Maribou and I have been plowing through our various cookbooks trying to find some dishes that are as awesome as the Thai-Style Coconut Chicken Soup or the Baked Beans and while we’ve found some good stuff, we haven’t found anything awesome to the point where I am needing to tell my friends about it. (We have made a piccata a buncha times, though.)
Yesterday when I got home, Maribou pointed out that we haven’t yet made spaghetti sauce this season and… OH MY GOSH WE HAVEN’T!!!
So I fried up some meat and put some spices into the crock pot with some pesto and some Pomi tomatoes! And it’s sitting in the bottom of the fridge right now!!! AND WE’RE GONNA HAVE PASKETTI TOMORROW!!!
When I was a kid, I always thought it was kind of silly to hear stuff that grownups got excited by. “Oooh! Spaghetti! OOOOH! GARLIC BREAD!!!”
Like, I thought that you needed to be excited by Cedar Point-level stuff to deserve an “Oooh!”
Now I am in my autumn and I shake my head. You don’t need to drive to Sandusky to wirehead properly. You can do it by using the last bit of garlic bread to wipe the last bit of sauce off of the bottom of the bowl.
I mean, why would you need more than that to have a good time?
As such, this weekend will be spent with friends (we’ve got a game night *AND* the Royal Rumble) and eating leftovers. And hanging out with friends and eating food and playing games and watching people throw each other over the top rope is even better than Cedar Point.
So… what’s on your docket?
(Featured image is “Towels”. Photo taken by Maribou.)
My wife and I are both getting over one of the nasty bugs that has been floating around, so this weekend will probably involve catching up on neglected duties around the house. There was supposed to be a game night tomorrow, but I’m not sure I would have the energy, and I don’t know for sure if I am no longer contagious, so I am skipping this one out. Still have the Rumble though.
Speaking of cookbooks, we got a new vegetarian cookbook the other day. We eat a lot of carbs, but we don’t do the best job with eating vegetables (unless onions and garlic count). I hope this will help us get better about that. We will be trying one of the first dishes from that this weekend.Report
If the dish is pretty good, please share it!Report
I will try to remember, but if not, feel free to call me out in next weekend’s post. It’s some sort of lentil croquettes that my wife picked out.Report
You opened the lentil pipe and lentils gushed forth?Report
I consider food as mostly an excuse to eat sauce.Report
Before I went to bed, I told Maribou “I can’t wait to fall asleep because the sooner I wake up, the sooner I get to start cooking the sauce.”
We’re two hours in. It’s starting to get aromatic.Report
Lentil croquettes sound absolutely delicious. Please post te recipe
Me.want.many.many.lentil.croquettes.foe.me.myself.I.now
And even though the J in J_A does not stand for Joey, I am not sharing my lentil croquettesReport
Recovering from what was most likely a viral-=caused sinus infection. Though I count it as a win that it’s not what I thought it was at first: a tooth under a crown failing, which would necessitate a root canal.
Gonna try to rest up but I also have to set up my Monday’s lab tomorrow, because Mondays are full-tilt boogie sort of daysReport
Everybody bought a copy of Annie Lennox’s “Medusa” and everybody listened to her “No More I Love Yous”.
And maybe you heard that Medusa was a collection of cover songs…
But did you ever listen to the original? I know that it was at least a decade before I heard it.
https://youtu.be/GEDrISl5z_4?si=-Z2JEQeacgD6d0xg
I almost think I like it better.Report