You mean I have to feed them Every Day!

What is it with these family people, they actually expect to be fed every day, in fact three or more times a day.  arg.

Some days I just can't face another trip to the grocery store and determine to cook using whatever I can find in the house.  Thursday was such a day.  I started with the thought of making spagetti.  Ok, no bottled sauce in the house, but I did find a 28oz of can of diced tomatos.  Good start. 

First I diced two small onions and two large cloves of garlic.  Into the frying pan with a tablespoon or two of olive oil.  I then added two diced stalks of celery and a diced up slightly wilted red peper, since it was sitting in the fridge going unused. 
After a few minutes on medium heat the mixture was getting yummy fragrent.

I then added a good measure of Italian style seasonings: basil, oregano, parsley and thyme. Cooked that for a minute and then added the canned tomatos.  A search in the freezer found a contained with about one and half cups of ground tomatos. In that went as well.  After this cooked for a while I took out a cup or so for the vegetarian.  Now was time to add the half bag of meatballs, again from the freezer.  I also found two hot Italian sausages.  After browning them in a frying pan I sliced them thin and added them to the sauce.

The meal was finished up with some slices of garlic bread that I toasted in a small frying pan and a bag of salad.  I chose penne instead of long spagetti as it tends to make less mess of everyone's shirts.

On friday, my nieces, who are visiting from New Zealand, wanted to make 'Canada Cookies'.  That means maple leaves.  I found them a recipe from Better Homes and Gardens, "Sugar Cookie Mittens",  and they did the rest.  I mixed the frosting colours and decided that it would be most fun to go neon, so they are not to blame for that part.  They look great and they taste even better.

Michelle's Cookies

Laura's Cookies

Hope you enjoyed reading about our thrown together meal.  Leave a comment and tell me about your favourite meal to throw together.

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