Usually called the doctor. Or the caretaker.

I acquired foodstuffs, and prepared a nutritious and tasty dinner at home!

I made penne with tomato cream sauce that had mushrooms and garlic and sun dried tomatoes in it, and had it with a lovely salad with the rest of the mushrooms (these raw) and some blue cheese.

Recipe-ish thing:
( Food is love; so are cuts )
For next time (and there will definitely be a next time), I think I'm going to try adding a little oregano or rosemary (or both), and just a tiny bit of freshly grated asiago or parmesan--or fontina! Not that I can probably get fontina here in the The Land of Ridiculously Expensive Cheese. I'm still refining the flavour of the sauce. It's easily the equal of anything I've bought commercially in a jar, although the Italian place down the street from my house in Kansas has a tomato cream sauce that makes me want to put down a tarp and roll around in it deliriously, so that's kind of what I'm going for.

I also bought my own butter, so I can stop poaching my roommate's and feeling bad about it, some cream cheese because it was on sale, and 3 boxes of a generic mac and cheese that's actually quite good as well as considerably cheaper than Kraft (hush, they were on sale, and they make an okay dinner with a salad if you aren't feeling inspired). Oh, and some yogurt as I ran out last week. I am a yogurt snob. Here I eat Astro Balkan-style. And I bought Perrier because I've got to stop drinking Coke, but I like something a little more flavourful than the horrid tap water in my apartment, which tastes like the inside of pipes. I also got a bottle of balsamic vinegar, as I finally see the end of my Costco Rosenborg cheese approaching. All told I spent about $35CDN, but a lot of it is stuff that is very stapley and will last, and it's all good stuff. Takeout too often is a false economy, even when there's just one of you and you can't cook very well for one yet.