frozen dinner.

dinner.
Originally uploaded by deepfry.

as my regular readers (i.e. my mother) know, sometimes my cooking activities lean towards the lesser end of the culinary spectrum. last night i did some preliminary thanksgiving shopping at Trader Joe's and Albertson's. This year is my first thanksgiving away from the family. Luckily, i've been invited to what will be a fabulous dinner with good friends and a. is coming into town, which makes any weekend more fun. since we're doing a non-traditional dinner tomorrow (duck, scallops, no turkey, no pumpkin pie, etc.), a. and i are making a more traditional dinner on friday. and what says tradition more than jello? nothing that i can think of. So i went to Albertson's to get four boxes of jello (lime, orange, lemon and strawberry) and four containers of cool whip.

i was planning to drop my groceries at home and go to Provisions to try their pizza. but then, wandering down an aisle in albertson's, i spotted a DiGiorno's garlic bread pizza (new!) sticking out of someone's shopping cart. i feel strongly that a single person living alone should do his/her best to avoid frozen pizzas at all costs. it's a gateway quick dinner. too much frozen pizza and next thing you know, you're eating Hungry Man t.v. dinners, then soup out of a can and eventually your dinner is nothing but a bag of doritos and a 2-liter of coke. i'm also incapable of eating a reasonable amount of frozen pizza...it's just slightly too processed to taste like real food so it doesn't actually feel like i'm eating a dinner. but i caved. that pizza looked too good to pass up. i will say, in my defense, that i spruced it up a bit with some fresh red and yellow peppers, red onion, basil, oregano and parmesan cheese. but mostly i enjoyed it in all its scary processed glory.