Lunch Today: Baked Ziti
Another day, another set of leftovers.
My wife and I hosted a New Year’s Eve party this year and made a couple large platters of baked ziti, some of which was still left over in our fridge. While there are plenty of people who are anti-leftovers and throw food out one day after it’s saved, I am very liberal when it comes to food in the fridge, so I brought the baked ziti for lunch today. I forgot to bring a drink with me, so I had to suck it up and buy a bottle of diet coke to go along with my italian meal.
Heating up pasta in the microwave never really tastes right, but what else am I going to do at while at work? If I were at home, I’d spread some extra sauce on top and bake it for about 25 minutes, but with the microwave as my only option, so be it.
Hopefully the carb-heavy lunch will give me enough energy to power through the rest of the day. I usually have an energy lull around 3:30pm where I feel like I need a sugar burst, but maybe the ziti will do a little more than usual.
And yes, that is a Jets daily trivia/fact calendar behind my keyboard.
Other lunches around me: ham and cheese sandwich (with some turkey on it) and a banana, and a mix of food from a salad bar (which my mom calls a “sneeze bar”) including bacon wrapped shrimp (bold move, good luck on that one). Someone also heated up some type of pasta, but I can’t tell exactly what it is; it smells delicious though.
What kind of person doesn’t like leftovers that are more than a day old?
And for the record, bacon-wrapped shrimp is really good. Bacon-wrapped anything is probably good.
It’s not that bacon wrapped shrimp isn’t good, it’s more that they have probably been sitting in the salad bar since 9am this morning…if he’s lucky.