Sunday Dinner in the 'shwa

Take portobello and white mushrooms, chop coarsely, simmer in olive oil and sherry. Add milk, and if lazy, cream of mushroom soup mix. Add more sherry. Season with pepper, garlic, whatever your heart may fancy.


Pour yourself a glass of wine, preferrably red. I chose a masi valpolicella but whatever you have on hand will do, and pour into a decanter to breathe, before pouring into red wine glass. (it's so nice not to have to drink wine from plastic glasses since we got nice ones for the wedding)

Make polenta (or if lazy buy it pre-made and slice into circles). Place on baking sheet, cover baking sheet with wax paper and spray wax paper with nonstick spray. Add thinly sliced garlic and thin slice of provolone cheese on top, drip of olive oil and throw in oven at 350 for about 12-15 minutes.


Drink more wine while watching cheese turn golden colour and stirring soup. Add more milk and sherry to soup, serve in cheap, easily chipped ikea bowls.



Dream of the day you can do this in your new fancy kitchen.

Dessert: It's antioxidant day! Eat a half pomegranate while drinking red wine. Take that, free radicals! Also, there is haagen dasz ice cream in the freezer - doesn't chocolate contain antioxidants?
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We spent the afternoon at home depot looking at kitchens and may have found cheaper alternatives that are actual wood. Anyone have any way of knowing whether we'll have to take up the linoleum? It's looking like there is no linoleum under the cabinets, and we have no idea what's under the linoleum. I can, of course hope that it's beautiful hardwood, but am not holding my breath. Anyone feel overwhelmed by the state of their house and the work needing to be done?