I forgot to put the meat out...

So, being out of school for the summer is wonderful, but I forget that the other things in life continue. Such as me making dinner. Well it was suddenly 5:30 this evening and I found myself staring at the cupboard attempting to make dinner materialize. ( I had forgotten to put out any of the meat that I has so meticulously zip-locked and stuck in the freezer the night before.) So I thought that I would make spaghetti and sauce since it would be easy and quick. Spaghetti, check. Sauce...... not so much. So I stood there another little while staring at the cupboard trying to make sauce materialize. And would you believe that it worked?!?! It did! It had a little help, but it materialized. I was thinking about one of my favorite dishes at an Italian restaurant in town and how I could make an oil based sauce. So I started with olive oil and added chopped onions and let that simmer a while. Then I grabbed a can of garbanzo beans and chopped some of those up and threw them in the mixture. I went back to looking in the cupboard and grabbed a can of stewed tomatoes (they were Mexican style... so it was an Italian/Latin meal I guess). It smelled kind of weird once the tomatoes were in and I thought I had ruined it, but I kept going. I added garlic powder because I didn't have any of the real stuff and then went out and grabbed a couple of leaves of basil off a plant and chopped them and added them to the mix (I don't think they did much of anything).

So the final review from Aaron? He liked it!!! The only thing I have ever made from scratch and my own ideas besides Marshmallow Surprise and it was a success!!! I'm so happy!!!