That's pretty much the way the dinner I'm sitting down and eating now came into existence. It was a sort of, "What do I have in the fridge that can go together into a meal?" Fried up some hot Italian sausage, added some tomato, orange bell pepper and frozen spinach, then realized I had two sliced of cooked bacon and the onions I cooked in the bacon drippings last night (they went on loaded baked potatoes that were last night's dinner...very tasty), so tossed those in, realized my garlic had gone moldy, so had to resort to a couple dashes of garlic powder, then added a can of chicken broth, brought it up to a boil, and mixed it with some pasta. It's pretty tasty. I think it would be even better with a more bitter vegetable than spinach (like when you get sausage and broccoli rabe...except I can't get broccoli rabe around here, and the rare times I've seen it, they've stripped off all the leaves! That's the good part!

Idiot produce managers ). And I'm washing it down with a Sam Adams Summer Ale, which I've decided is a little too light for my taste. I thought it would go better than the Sierra Nevada Pale Ale with a pasta dish, but it seems I was wrong. Oh well.