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Dinners And Dining
May. 11th, 2008 06:41 pmMaria's ill, having taken Friday off as a vacation day the Universe appears to have decided that it would be best if she were punished, and out cold on the couch with a stomach flu for the entire weekend.
She offered to buy dinner tonight for us, as I've been "very nice and helpful." Though I would normally jump at this offer, the other day we decided that, in an effort to save gas, we should make our shopping trips bigger, spending all at once what we would normally space out over a couple times in a week or more.
$220 later, we have a house full of food. I'm not sure I've ever spent that much on groceries for two people, and if this doesn't last us for quite a while, I'll be a bit disappointed. For this reason, I thought going out for some dinner might be rather frivolous.
Of course, that doesn't mean I feel like cooking. For lunch I made a spinach, shrimp, and cilantro salad, with tomatoes and crunchy bits out of a shaker. That was enough cooking for the day, really; mind, the shrimp was cooked yesterday.
I love cooking, but some days I just don't want to bother with turning on the stove. Anyone else feel like that? What do you normally do when that feeling comes around? Do you just go out for dinner, or make something simple? I'm thinking tater tots and pre-made pirogies, a fantastically unhealthy, but ridiculously simple dinner if I just nuke the pirogies and do the tater tots up in the oven.
But somehow even that seems like too much.
Some days, I actually start to think I'm lazy, and that I should do something about it.
(Wait for it)
Then I realize that would be too much work.
She offered to buy dinner tonight for us, as I've been "very nice and helpful." Though I would normally jump at this offer, the other day we decided that, in an effort to save gas, we should make our shopping trips bigger, spending all at once what we would normally space out over a couple times in a week or more.
$220 later, we have a house full of food. I'm not sure I've ever spent that much on groceries for two people, and if this doesn't last us for quite a while, I'll be a bit disappointed. For this reason, I thought going out for some dinner might be rather frivolous.
Of course, that doesn't mean I feel like cooking. For lunch I made a spinach, shrimp, and cilantro salad, with tomatoes and crunchy bits out of a shaker. That was enough cooking for the day, really; mind, the shrimp was cooked yesterday.
I love cooking, but some days I just don't want to bother with turning on the stove. Anyone else feel like that? What do you normally do when that feeling comes around? Do you just go out for dinner, or make something simple? I'm thinking tater tots and pre-made pirogies, a fantastically unhealthy, but ridiculously simple dinner if I just nuke the pirogies and do the tater tots up in the oven.
But somehow even that seems like too much.
Some days, I actually start to think I'm lazy, and that I should do something about it.
(Wait for it)
Then I realize that would be too much work.
