Sunday Supper

     It's nice to have at least one conventional sit-down meal a week.  Any more, I mostly have salads, sandwiches or "trash night" pizza, our time-saver on the night we empty all the trash cans, clear out the fridge and set the can out for the city to empty.

     Sunday or Saturday, I try to do more.  This was a busy weekend, as I continued straightening up the library/dining room and, on Saturday, took delivery of a large, heavy flat-pack box with a famous blue-and-yellow logo on it.

     It's a new storage cabinet for the bath.  The old one was tiny, and Roseholme Cottage lacks any semblance of a linen closet.  It's barely got closets at all.  I found a six-foot-tall cabinet online that would fit the available space, and after dishes and housecleaning, I spent Sunday emptying the old cabinet, cleaning the corner where it sat, assembling the new one, modifying it slightly to clear the baseboard, and getting it into position and anchored to the wall.

     But that left no time for the grocery, and not much for cooking.  I asked Tam to pick up a couple of cased sausages, whatever appealed to her, and some of the fresh, microwave-ready vegetables our local grocery sells, all cut up in a cooking bag, with a little seasoning.

     I was expecting the usual assortment -- onion, carrot, asparagus, pea pods, zucchini, cauliflower and/or broccoli, etc.  Brown the sausage, drain, add a small jar of good garden-type spaghetti sauce,* heat and add the nuked veggies.  The store was out of them.  They did have Parmesan zucchini, with a nice pat of butter blended with the cheese and Italian herbs.  I'd forgotten just how well the combination works, but it certainly does.  Tam picked up a chorizo sausage and a mild Italian, a nice combination.  I added a small can of tomato paste to thicken the sauce, since zucchini's got a lot of water in it.  We both went back for seconds.

     It's a low-effort meal that looks and tastes like you spent a lot of time on it.  Add some garlic bread and it's as nice as anyone could want.
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* Michael's of Brooklyn Home Style Gravy remains my go-to.  There are other good sauces, but it's tasty and consistent.