Happy birthday, LeeLee!
We’ve been celebrating for the last few days, juggling three
(!) holiday parties and one (!) Heisman ceremony (on TV, not in person, but the
result was well worth it), but today is LeeLee’s actual birthday, and he
specifically requested spaghetti and vegetarian meatballs to headline our
dinner menu. Flattery will get you
everywhere in this life, so naturally I added his request to our weekly menu
plan.
I pulled out a jar of homemade spaghetti sauce – canned
this summer, you may recall – and began to heat it up while I cooked the spaghetti
and formed some slices of Lightlife vegetarian beef (the kind from the tube)
into meatballs. I coated a large skillet
with a little bit of oil, turned the heat to Medium, and placed the meatballs
in, turning them every couple of minutes so they could brown evenly on all
sides.
By the time the pasta was cooked and drained, the meatballs
were ready and the tomato sauce was smelling just great. So on our plates it all went, one layer after
another! Paired with some garlic bread
and a glass of wine, it was a great celebratory meal for a most celebratory
guy.
In a few minutes, we’ll have dessert – a pannetone one of my
friends gave me in a Secret Santa exchange.
We’ve been saving it for this occasion all weekend – a perfect end to a
great birthday!
:)
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