{"id":762,"date":"2001-11-21T08:28:00","date_gmt":"2001-11-21T08:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=762"},"modified":"2001-11-21T08:28:00","modified_gmt":"2001-11-21T08:28:00","slug":"tales_of_pasta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/tales_of_pasta\/","title":{"rendered":"tales of pasta &#038; fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i happened to see a commercial for <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.prego.com\">prego&#8217;s<\/A> pasta bake sauce the other day.  &#8220;gee,&#8221; i thought, &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t that be neat?!  pour raw pasta, sauce and cheese in a dish and bake!  i think i&#8217;ll try that!&#8221;<br \/>\nwhile at the grocery store returning a bottle of hairspray i&#8217;d bought thinking it was the pretty-smelling version, i remembered to check for this wondrous new product in the pasta aisle.  five minutes i spent looking over the jars of bright red tomato sauces and there was nary a prego product to be found, let alone a new, revolutionary one.  &#8220;dammit!&#8221; i thought, &#8220;well, fine&#8230; i&#8217;ve already got the mozzarella in my basket, i&#8217;ll just use the jar of spicy pepper sauce i have at home.  i don&#8217;t need no stinking prego!&#8221;<br \/>\nlast night, after fighting rainy, windy, nasty traffic, i stumbled into my cozy little abode and put the pasta pot to boiling.  i was going to <i>cook<\/i> something for dinner.  considering most nights i re-reat my meals, this was a momentous occasion.  i was sorely tempted to invite someone over to partake of my culinary prowess; but, wary of first-time disaster, decided to not turn a friend into a guinea pig and possibly a patient at the local medical facility.<br \/>\nthere was boiling, straining, grating, pouring, mixing and finally baking occurring in my miniscule kitchen, the likes of which haven&#8217;t been seen since three sundays past (when i created chicken fried rice, vegetable stir-fry, baked chicken with sundried tomato dressing and rice &#8212; not all for one sitting, silly.  i cook for the week).<br \/>\nat the end, i removed a steaming, bubbling pyrex dish of tomatoey pasta goodness from the oven.  i dished myself up a bowl, retired to the futon and munched happily away on my cheesy delight whilst listening to episode three of <i>the lord of the rings<\/i> (bbc radio version).<br \/>\nsometimes, all it takes is a little home-cookin&#8217; to make a person&#8217;s soul a little lighter&#8230; and sleepier.  i fell asleep during episode four and didn&#8217;t wake up until around eight o&#8217;clock.  so, i fetched tomorrow&#8217;s mpeg, packed up the leftovers, set the dishes to soaking &#038; settled into bed with episode five softly issuing from my computer&#8217;s speakers.<br \/>\nahh&#8230; sometimes being boring is so very nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i happened to see a commercial for prego&#8217;s pasta bake sauce the other day. &#8220;gee,&#8221; i thought, &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t that be neat?! pour raw pasta, sauce and cheese in a dish and bake! i think i&#8217;ll try that!&#8221; while at the grocery store returning a bottle of hairspray i&#8217;d bought thinking it was the pretty-smelling version, <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/tales_of_pasta\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}