Our pantry has a good amount of supplies, but not many varieties of pasta, aka: noodles. Dennis likes the flat egg noodles for everything pasta related. Yesterday, with a pound of 85% lean hamburger browned, chopped sauteed green peppers and several hand fulls of noodles that he had boiled in salt water, supper was in the mix. For the first time we had purchased a jar of Classico sauce. Let me tell you, all of the ingredients mixed and baked in his favorite little blue speckled roaster, topped with corn flake crumbs for 45 minutes . . . it was so delicious. The Classico had chunks of tomato with just the right amount of additional spices. What surprised me is that it is processed in a regular sized mouth of a Mason jar.
Today, while I was in the sewing studio, Dennis did up a chocolate cake mix. They had been on sale for a $1.00 each. His request was a peanut butter frosting. I did get the ingredients all put together in the bowl, but it took the truck driver biceps to get it beat into the proper consistency. We are expecting a coffee guest tomorrow and I think Dennis’ fair is going to hit the spot.
The best thing . . . Dennis cleans up his dirty cooking and baking dishes. Yup, I am spoiled.