Most of the dinners I eat are home-cooked. The only problem is that I am not the one who cooks the meal. Imagine the courage and determination I had when I decided to cook dinner while in New Haven! (Okay. I admit the idea to cook dinner while on my trip was due to the fact that I wanted to save a couple bucks and not order take out for what would be the sixth night in a row. A and I had already picked up some 99 cents pasta and Alfredo sauce while grocery shopping at Trader Joe’s a couple days earlier in Boston.)
The Supplies
The Cooking
The Dinner
What you probably didn’t know about my attempt to make dinner
A and I bought two bags of pasta and a can of alfredo sauce to make dinner for two nights. A figured that a bag of pasta + half a can of sauce = dinner for one night. A, however, didn’t realize that “half a can of sauce” would only be enough for half a bag of pasta. After eating a forkful of semi-sauced pasta, A and I decided to dump our pasta back into our pot and add the remainder of the sauce to our pasta. After this second attempt to make dinner, our pasta was now a bit more edible though it lacked any spices to make it like the good ‘ol pasta that we get cooked for us at home. All in all, we somehow survived through this dinner. (As a side note, we did have enough leftoever pasta for dinner the next night, but we made the call instead to return to our take-out dinners. As for the extra bag of pasta we had bought, it made for a nice souvenir for the real cooks at home.)
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I really like Trader Joe’s. They always have the most affordable foods to choose from.
March 1st, 2009
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