The Best Laid Plans
I haven’t been feeling great and have had about all the tea and soup I can I take, so I decided to make some quick and easy comfort food since Oren won’t be back from visiting his sister in Boston until late tonight. I had an organic eggplant and some Maui onions in the fridge, as well as as assortment of pastas, a new jar of a new-to-me Italian marinara, and a nice bottle of Barbaresco already open.
I started sauteing the diced eggplant with the onions, herbs, and some garlic, thew some capellini in the pot, and went to open the jar of sauce. No luck. Ran it under steaming hot water. The lid still wouldn’t budge. Knocked it on the counter a few times, ran it under more hot water, wrapped a towel around it, still no luck. I’m no weakling and have never been bested by a jar before. Five minutes later, with the pasta draining in sink the the eggplant falling apart tender, I finally thew in a can of diced organic tomatoes and some more spices. Not exactly what I was hoping for, but still pretty tasty.
The jar is still sitting there, laughing at me. It’s nice having someone to hand these sorts of challenges off to. Maybe it’s time I buy a jar opener.
chuck said,
December 12, 2005 @ 11:46 am
i hope you told oren to visit Uni while he was in boston.
Olivia said,
December 12, 2005 @ 11:55 am
I told him emphatically, in fact, but he was visiting his sister for the night and she wanted to pick the place. I will, however, add it to my list now that I’m thinking of it. Hopefully it’s still around when I finally make it back to Boston - may not be until my next reunion in ‘07…
Mona said,
December 16, 2005 @ 1:03 pm
I knew I recognized that bottle of marinara. It’s sitting at our house from a recent excursion to Little Italy of the Bronx. You’re one lucky kid to have it all the way out there in CA.
Olivia said,
December 21, 2005 @ 1:53 pm
I did end up opening this jar of Cucina Antica marinara a few days after this post (in part just so that it would stop mocking me every time I opened the cupboard) and it was in fact delicious, though I mixed it with some hot pepper and roasted egplant. Definitely one to try again!