So it’s a big day in the kate household (of one). Tonight I made dinner in a way that could be loosely referred to as “cooking.”
I will give you a moment to let the hugeness of this fact sink in. While I’m doing so, I will list my usual lunch and/or dinner options:
- Taquitos or pizza rolls cooked in the microwave because the stove takes too long and makes pizza rolls weirdly crunchy
- Chicken flavor ramen noodles, also nuked, mixed with some ranch dressing to make it creamier and more awesome
- Cold bagels dipped in pizza sauce (quite delicious and no preparation necessary. you don’t even need a dish as long as you don’t double-dip)
- Graham cracker sticks dipped in peanut butter (see: advantages listed in previous item)
- A turkey-pickle-cheese-potatochips sandwich… a personal fave.
- Pizza ordered from one of the billion places in town. serve hot or cold the next day …OR
- One of the actually home-cooked leftovers my mom sends home with me – chili, casserole, potatoes, etc. – which are usually gone pretty quickly
As we can see, kate + actual cooking = less frequent than leap years. Tonight, however, I got a wild hair and decided to make Kraft Spaghetti. See below:
My family used to have this when my mom didn’t feel like making something from scratch, which is pretty funny since I considered it to be a big deal to make. I used not only a pot on the stove for the noodles BUT ALSO a bowl in the microwave for the sauce concoction (which I made with the packet mix, tomato paste, water, AND some spice shit.) Why didn’t I cook the sauce on the stove like the directions say, you ask? Because I only have one pot, duh. Plus I had to incorporate my poor microwave in there somewhere, he was getting lonely.
Now I’m exhausted and I think my ramen is winking at me. Don’t worry, delicious sodium-laden “soup”, I will see you tomorrow.
