Posted by: Matt
Hi...I am not sure everyone knows but Courtney and I are the world's worst planners (we get busy, what family with children doesn't) and when it comes to food (dinner especially) we may be in the running for the worst planners in the known universe. Seriously, we never have a clue what we will have for dinner during the week...ever have this conversation with your spouse? "What do you want for dinner?" The answer is always inevitably, "I don't care... what do you want for dinner?" And this conversation repeats for 10-15 minutes... it is like the movie Groundhog day...and sometimes you get so frustrated that you want to just start a fast... I mean sometimes you would just rather starve than deal with it... but then you remember that you have two children (plus you know... you worked through lunch and you could probaly eat a lightly salted radial right now... and dammit it's 6:15 and bedtime is creeping up on you!... and you really need that hour of downtime before you fall into that sleep coma and do it all again tomorrow) and those kids should probably be fed... you know... it seems like the right thing to do. So, you open the fridge... since we don't plan there is nothing defrosted... and you begin the search for some sustenance. When you find yourself in these food shotclock situations repeatedly you develop the ability to create something decent from a potpourri of random ingredients and leftovers that litter the shelves of your fridge. We call it icebox review and after awhile it has just become part of the Minton Condition. Tonight's iron chef recipe... 1 loaf of frozen garlic bread (that a guest brought for a party a few weeks ago)... split bread open... spread one side with pizza or tomato sauce (we had pizza sauce from make your own pizza night on Friday), 14 pepperonis (again leftover from that party), 1 crumbled hamburger (from burger night Saturday), and a handful of mozzarella cheese (I like a lot.) Put the loaf back together... it looks like a sandwich now because that is what you made... a pizza sandwich... wrap it in foil... bake for 35 minute at 375... enjoy.
LOL. You made me laugh, Iron Chef. Oh yah and thanks for the recipe :)
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad we aren't the only ones who do this... I will have to try this "pizza sandwich." :)
ReplyDeletethis situation happens to us every night!!! i'm curious if the loaf of garlic bread was the one we brought? :) sounds like a good idea for a dinner that you came up with very quickly... now i need to get off of this computer to figure out "what's for dinner?!?!" :)
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