All By Myself

My better half is in Florida for a firm retreat, leaving me all alone to enjoy my weekend as I please. Which, of course, means eating all the things he doesn't like to eat.

I know, it's not exotic, but I'm not kidding. He doesn't like plain old red sauce on spaghetti. What a weirdo. He actually groans when I make it. Today I made red sauce with ground buffalo and onions. Yay.

And, because a girl's gotta feel like a lady sometimes, a one-person's bottle of champagne (Perrier Jouet brut). Something special for the Thursday ABC prime time lineup.

Oh, and never stick a straw in a full bottle of champagne, even if it's a tiny bottle and you think it would be nice not to wash a glass. Champagne fizzes when it touches unsmooth surfaces--the more dust particles and scratches there are in your glass, the more the champagne will fizz. Some top of the line champagne glasses have a tiny scratch purposely cut into the bottom so there's always a stream of large bubbles going up the center of the glass. I hear it's really fun to watch. So if you do throw a straw in a full bottle of champagne, it will start foaming over. Better to pour it into a glass where it has some room to fizz.