Recipe for Decadence
Ingredients:
- Half an onion, diced
- Several cloves of garlic, smushed or chopped as you please
- A bunch of pasta, of your desired shape and size. I chose linguine, because that’s what we had in the pantry. Had I a trip to the supermarket, I might have chosen small shells or ziti, so as to better capture the ridiculously extravagant sauce I am about to tell you how to make.
- One can chickpeas
- One can diced tomatoes
- Some spaghetti sauce — I chose Trader Joe’s Vodka Sauce. Mmm, vodka sauce.
- Four or five sundried tomato pieces, soaked in water and chopped up
- Three portabello mushrooms drizzled in olive oil, salt and pepper, and baked for 10 minutes
- Splash of good red wine, such as this.
- The hunger.
Steps to happiness:
1) Stick mushrooms in oven, 425 degrees. Soak sundried tomatoes.
2) Forget to put the burner on under the pasta water.
3) Olive oil, garlic, onions.
4) Chickpeazzzz!
5) Canned tomatoes.
6) Add premade spag-sauce.
7) Splash of wine. Stir.
8) Answer phone and have long, but very polite conversation with excitable woman from Huntington’s Theater who wants you to buy a “flex-pass” for the season.
9) Remember pasta water burner!
10) Retrieve mushrooms, chop.
11) Add ’shrooms. Add sundried.
12) Leave alone.
13) Taste. Whee!
14) Make self bowl of pasta and sauce, glass of wine.
15) Watch bad tv.
Yow.
April 26th, 2005 at 10:35 am
Ooh, that really IS bad tv.
April 26th, 2005 at 11:57 am
Now wait a second. I Married a Princess is horrendously bad TV. But Everwood? That’s not so bad. If you had watched 7th Heaven, I’d give you that. But Everwood is actually kind of interesting and fun.
Believe me, I watch plenty of bad TV. But I’m not totally willing to put Everwood in that category quite yet. YET.
April 26th, 2005 at 1:07 pm
Well — it’s just that I hadn’t watched Everwood in about a year, and it seemed to have gone downhill somewhat. I kind of hate Ephram now. But there was that line at the end: “I’m not trying to walk all over you. I’m trying to walk around you.”
Ouch.
April 26th, 2005 at 1:36 pm
I actually met some friends for drinks last night, so I had to TiVo the episode. Now I’m dying to know who said that last line to whom! I don’t suppose I can go home and watch at lunch… Damn employment.
The show took a big hiatus recently, which is always annoying, but the plot has thickened a little. Now it’s a matter of what they do with it. I still love Bright. Wait, maybe he said that last line. To Hannah. I think I’ll cry.
April 26th, 2005 at 1:45 pm
I’m not telling.
But I do want to know, since I missed so much, how come Bright turned into kind of an asshole? I saw one other episode this year, and he was involved in some kind of sexual harrassment thing. Eh?
April 26th, 2005 at 9:51 pm
Well since TV makes you smart, there’s no such thing as bad TV… Or have I been dumbed-down to the point that I didn’t have the attention span for that New York Times article and therefore don’t know what I’m talking about?
Possible.
May 2nd, 2005 at 11:17 am
Sorry I haven’t responded. Don’t know if you’ll get this, but it’s just in time for tonight’s new episode if you do! Brigth basically turned into an asshole because he has no life and no motivation and no direction. And he’s living at home and basically walking all over everyone. He got fired from his waiter job because he was fooling around with another staffer in the supply closet, then he lied about it, then his mom got him a job in her office (she’s the mayor) and he was sleeping with another staffer, but then he treated her like dirt and got brought up on charges (but not criminal — I just think in-house) that it was inappropriate, etc. And his mom was so mad, and she rocks (even though she’s about to get a really bad illness). So he finally took a long hard look at himself and realized that he has treated women so poorly and he doesn’t want to be that guy. So he goes and apologizes to all his former flames (who really don’t care at all — they have all moved on and pretty much forgotten him). And now he’s kind of trying to get his life back on track. He is going to move out and go to community college next year. And he is super cute with Hannah — really supportive and funny and sweet — but I’m not sure if I really want them to get together or not (Hannish is so so so innocent — I don’t think she’s ever kissed a guy). But they are adorable together. So basically, Bright was an asshole because he felt like he could be, since he has nothing else going, and now he’s better. Is that more than you EVOR wanted to know about Bright? Probably. But I can’t stop myself! It’s the WB!
May 2nd, 2005 at 11:18 am
Okay, contrary to popular opinion, “Hannish” is not a cute nickname for “Hannah.” That’s what happens when you can only see part of the screen you’re typing in and you don’t proofread.