The Unplanned Dinner

Well, the resolution has hit the middle-of-the-week, meal planning hiatus. Last night we had a freezer meal - leftover frozen kaiser rolls and frozen butternut squash I meant to have in early December. Luckily, neither were freezer burned, or not much anyway. We augmented this with a 1/2 pound of baby spinach, a bunch of fresh parsley, garlic, and a few bits of unidentifiable cheese. The two largest pieces of cheese were both white; one was a hard cheese, and one was a semi-hard cheese, or at least that's what they had evolved into. That is all that was in the frig, and Eamon said he would eat the bread and cheese, and maybe the spinach. Mylos kept his own council. Tom did not vote.

Actually, it wasn't so bad. I minced the parsley with the garlic, and added half to the semi-hard cheese (I think it was mozzarella,) and tossed half with the butternut squash. While the squash was baking, I cleaned the spinach, tossed it with largish shavings of what I now believe to be Parmesan and a homemade balsamic vinegar and olive oil dressing. After removing the squash from the oven, I sprinkled the parsley-cheese mixture over the split kaiser rolls and broiled those. The children wisely left the kitchen while I was dashing around, wielding a knife, and muttering about our inability to shop for the entire week.

In about half an hour, we had dinner.  Tom and Eamon wolfed down the salad, and ate the cheesy toast. Mylos and I ate the squash and a bit of cheesy toast, and I had what remained of the salad. The kids and I had pineapple for dessert, again. Tom had Guinness. After that, BBB (bath, books, and bed).

Now I have to plan tonight's dinner.