Thursday
On Thursday after work I came home, vacuumed the stairs, took out the trash, changed into a t-shirt, and went to the airport to pick up my sister. I was about twenty minutes late. I should really know by now that if the green sign with an airplane on it points one way, and the GPS is telling me to go the other way, the GPS is wrong. And it was. But I got there eventually, after extricating myself from the middle of nowhere.
We went to Panera because Miranda hadn't had a proper lunch, and then we went to Food Lion to get some groceries for the weekend. They had the most wonderful early strawberries (from California)--we bought two pounds and finished them off this morning. They smelled lovely and were firm and sweet. When we got home, I laid down for an hour with Bear, then we made baked spaghetti and garlic bread for dinner.
Bear's Baked Spaghetti
1/2 lb. Barilla Plus Thin Spaghetti (actually the Barilla Plus comes in 14.5 oz. boxes, so we use 1/2 box, or 7.25 oz.)
About 3 cups homemade spaghetti sauce
8 oz. shredded cheese (Italian-blend and/or Cheddar)
Cook pasta according to package directions. Warm spaghetti sauce over low heat. Spread a thin layer of the sauce in the bottom of a 1.5-quart casserole dish. Add drained pasta and rest of sauce and combine. Spread cheese in a thick layer over pasta. Bake at 400 degrees for 12 to 14 minutes alongside garlic bread. Serves 3.
After dinner I made the mininature pound cake from Small-Batch Baking and we had that, sliced, with the first pound of strawberries and some whipped cream, for dessert.
We went to Panera because Miranda hadn't had a proper lunch, and then we went to Food Lion to get some groceries for the weekend. They had the most wonderful early strawberries (from California)--we bought two pounds and finished them off this morning. They smelled lovely and were firm and sweet. When we got home, I laid down for an hour with Bear, then we made baked spaghetti and garlic bread for dinner.
Bear's Baked Spaghetti
1/2 lb. Barilla Plus Thin Spaghetti (actually the Barilla Plus comes in 14.5 oz. boxes, so we use 1/2 box, or 7.25 oz.)
About 3 cups homemade spaghetti sauce
8 oz. shredded cheese (Italian-blend and/or Cheddar)
Cook pasta according to package directions. Warm spaghetti sauce over low heat. Spread a thin layer of the sauce in the bottom of a 1.5-quart casserole dish. Add drained pasta and rest of sauce and combine. Spread cheese in a thick layer over pasta. Bake at 400 degrees for 12 to 14 minutes alongside garlic bread. Serves 3.
After dinner I made the mininature pound cake from Small-Batch Baking and we had that, sliced, with the first pound of strawberries and some whipped cream, for dessert.