Your husband generally cooks a big, fancy dinner for you on Sunday night, but this particular Sunday, he is mid fancy dinner assembly when you get a call inviting you all to watch the Academy Awards. After a brief discussion, you agree to go watch the very beginning of the Academy Awards and to finish assembling and start eating the fancy dinner the next night.
Subsequently, your husband is invited out to partake in a Monday night activity. You're not especially interested in this activity so you don't mind missing it; however, this marks a second night out for your husband when you have yet to have even one. Not that you're, um, keeping score or anything as ridiculous as that.
Monday afternoon, your husband calls to ask if it's still okay if he goes out. You tell him yes and mean it. Then he tells you that if you like, you can finish assembling the fancy dinner and have that for your dinner. This, you mind. Even though you'll probably like the end result, the assembly still requires some sauteeing and layering and baking, and this is too much for someone who has spent the day squiring around a kvetchy 6-month old who just got his shots. Do you:
A) Happily make the casserole--your husband's done a good bit of the work already and it's going to be delicious when it's done.
B) Reluctantly make the casserole while grumbling and sipping some medicinal wine to get you through--you wouldn't have chosen to cook something this complicated on your own.
C) Heat up the part of the casserole that's already made and eat it with some rice.
D) Leave the partly assembled casserole in the fridge for your husband to finish the next night, and order in sushi, a reward you deserve for staying in. Again.
*****
I didn't even have enough energy for option D (but I am relieved that so many of you were similarly inclined). I got distracted by yogurt in the fridge (Stonyfield Farms' Key Lime--good stuff) and a container of walnuts and called it dinner.
D, but with the wine from B.
Posted by: Carrie | March 06, 2006 at 09:12 PM
Ditto, Carrie.
Posted by: Abby | March 06, 2006 at 09:48 PM
D
Posted by: Trish | March 06, 2006 at 10:31 PM
B- but then order sushi. The damned casserole's finished, right? Noone said you had to eat it!
A night with sleeping baby and no hubby? Go for the wine and sushi!
Posted by: daysgoby | March 06, 2006 at 10:36 PM
wine and sushi!
Posted by: queermommy | March 06, 2006 at 10:48 PM
D, of course. Is this a trick question? Who would make the casserole? The wine, though, yes.
Posted by: Moxie | March 06, 2006 at 11:07 PM
S-U-S, S-U-S, S-U-S-H-I. Was that a trick question? Though I'd throw in the wine, too.
Posted by: marion | March 06, 2006 at 11:50 PM
I'm just jealous that you can order in sushi. I can't even order in Chinese food, which I find somehow incredibly WRONG. Pizza is the only thing we can get delivered. :(
(so in my case, probably B due to lack of options)
Posted by: cass | March 07, 2006 at 02:59 AM
What they all said. Duh.
Posted by: deborah | March 07, 2006 at 05:19 AM
D, no question.
Posted by: Jamie | March 07, 2006 at 08:23 AM
Oh D, definitely. If I finished assembling, there's now way it would be delicious in the end.
Posted by: Cat, Galloping | March 07, 2006 at 09:07 AM
cass, at least you can get pizza delivered! That's funny that you basically made the same comment I was about to, except for the fact that in the boonies there's no such thing as delivery.
But in this situation, the sushi is definitely the best option.
Posted by: Amy | March 07, 2006 at 09:14 AM
I go with D also, with the wine from B and throw in some grumbling to myself as well. :)
Posted by: Kelli | March 07, 2006 at 10:09 AM
Can I change it to ordering in nachos and a burrito? If so, then definitely D.
Posted by: MoMo | March 07, 2006 at 10:09 AM
I'd order in, but not sushi, sorry. Maybe Italian. Mainly cause I can't cook, so even finished something already started would be too much for me.
Posted by: Beachgal | March 07, 2006 at 11:18 AM
I'd order in, but not sushi, sorry. Maybe Italian. Mainly cause I can't cook, so even finishing something already started would be too much for me.
Posted by: Beachgal | March 07, 2006 at 11:20 AM
Gimme a D! with wine, please.
Posted by: Mandy | March 07, 2006 at 12:36 PM
So totally D.
Posted by: Bella | March 07, 2006 at 02:23 PM
Did you at least have the wine with your yogurt? For the record, I would have voted for option D, but I have done what you did before too.
Posted by: Jessica | March 07, 2006 at 04:48 PM
I don't know whether to be distressed that my in-city neighborhood is insufficiently urban to have sushi delivery, or thankful that we don't have it, because it would not be so good for our financial security.
Have you tried the Stonyfield Farms chocolate yogurt? I'm a big fan. It would probably go with wine, too.
Posted by: Summer | March 07, 2006 at 05:28 PM