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highwaydiamonds · 2 years ago

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It was one of my nights to make dinner - and I hadn't done a good job planning ahead. Whipped out a jar of arrabiata sauce I had and i knew i had some leftover hamburger from earlier in the week.... Then looked around for pasta and did not find good pasta candidates for the most part... Gnocchi and Tortellini - that I knew other people might want to tap on their dinner nights... And then I remember boxes of lasagna noodles that had been sitting there for months - and they weren't no boil noodles. (lets be real - the person who bought those hates cooking and there's no way on god's green earth do i see her making any kind of lasagna from scratch - let alone boiling the noodles first ok? ) So I was like - YEP , you're mine, you orphan lasagna noodles!

Broke the noodles ehhhh into relatively similar size pieces and then for good measure tossed cream cheese into the sauce - do not come for me. authentic? hell no. creamy and a nice balance to the extra red pepper i added to make the sauce spicier? yes. Also since I had sauteed onions and a whole buncha minced garlic before cooking the meat and sauce - it was niiiice. at least niiiiice for very little forethought.

(and i had made paul's pumpkin bars - like pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting for dessert - that cake is life ok. and i hadn't had it since my mom passed. that one was for you out there mom- and whoever the heck paul was - mom got the recipe from someone at work or the newspaper back in the day)

ANYWAY - when we sat down to dinner, someone looked at the bowl of pasta and sauce and asked, " So.... What is this exactly?

My response to this semi-saltily delivered query was," FOOD."

After letting the resulting silence sit for a nice little moment or three I then added, "But if you feel you need a fancy name, consider it as 'Deconstructed Lasagna served in a Creamy Tomato and Beef Ragout to be followed by Pumpkin Bars ala Paul."

The peanut gallery let me have this one.

#megan cooks #or more like megan approximates cooking #this was not about me actually cooking much of anythng - more than me managing to scrounge up a dinner #dinner that i thought was very tasty and made my tummy happy even if it was cobbled together haphazardly #the paul's pumpkin bars tho - those suckers are as good as i remember them being #those were a good decision - especially because there are too many damn cans of pumpkin in this house - and someone should use them #and at least i attempt making things from scratch #and as a side note may it please god and the court and anyne else out there but really mainly me ...#please this week let betsy not make the SAME damn variation on a theme of chicken soup.#we've had chicken tortellini soup and chicken gnocchi soup and then also just chicken soup (for when she couldn't find her pastas)#so here is hoping monday does NOT mean yet another fucking chicken soup. it's not good for my soul ok or my tastebuds rn-i'm over it #if we do - i might need to find a recipe to use up all the chicken broth - to try and head off the soup at the pass #adventures in dinnertime #wow - adventure... that's a big stretch but it sounds nice so i'll keep it #if anyone has read this far- are you ok? i hope you're ok- you are so sweet and kind and you deserve a paul's pumpkin bar and some tea

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