Prepared Foods: It's What's For Dinner

Sometimes we're really good about dinner. Seriously. We eat plenty of chopped salads, stir-fries, curries, etc. In keeping with the spirit of half-assery, however, allow us to reveal tonight's dinner, otherwise known as "pantry castoffs" or "hobo's sweet tooth." You take a base of TJ's cornbread, add a healthy dollop of baked beans, and top it off with some crumbled black bean burger. Delicious, you say? Oh, you bet it is. You know those people who can take five ingredients from their refrigerator and make something fresh and delicious and inspirational? We are not those people. We made this, and we sure did eat it. But sometimes you have to sacrifice a little flavor to make some room in the pantry, amirite? Pantry integrity, that's what we're about.

Have you ever had Trader Joe's cornbread? It's like eating boxed yellow cake with some corn kernels thrown in for pizazz. With a can of super sugared beans on top, the sweetness here was truly overkill. Disgusting, really. Poor Morning Star never had a chance to shine. Even Rooster was wary of this concoction. No, never. This is just the coy sideways glance he throws when he's pretending he's disinterested.

Wow, blogging. We'll report on some more stuff not worth reporting on soon!

"Eh, it'll have to do."

Wouldn't it look cuter if the "with Leah and Todd" part of the blog title were slightly smaller than the rest, like a subtitle? I thought so, too. And if I were more adept at HMTL or more patient with template tweaking, I really would have figured that out. But instead, after a few minutes of fiddling and a peek at the evening's must-see TV schedule, I sighed an "Eh, it'll have to do" and moved on to post numero uno.

I guess it's obvious from the blog title that we're not exactly overachievers here. It's not that we don't have good ideas and strong desires to carry them out, it's just that sometimes we don't have the patience to really plan for their decent execution. And once we get to the point in a project where we realize that maybe we should've prepped that surface after all, it's "good enough" and on to the next thing. Because part of our half-assery is laziness, sure, but the other part is just needing to get on with things already. When you have as many home improvement projects on your plate as we do, sometimes you just have to take the fast track and settle for okay, or other times, for "no one will notice."

Soon enough I'll post about an actual half-assed project with photos and whatnot, but right now I'm going to have to use this computer to watch Parks and Rec. And this is how it goes.