# What's For Dinner Tonight: Episode 2021 – A New Hope

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** food-cooking\
**Created:** [January 20, 2021, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015 "2021-01-20T19:38:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 3929

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015/3929 "2025-03-15T17:38:55Z")

</div>

I decided to do some prep to make tonight’s spaghettini dinner easier. I’ve just washed, let dry, and then fried in garlic butter a bunch of whole cremini mushrooms and then put them in the fridge. I pureed a wonderful but chunky marinara in the blender so it’s smooth, with enough added water to let it simmer for awhile and absorb the flavour of deli meatballs, and put that away, too, and then ran the dishwasher which already had a lot of crap in it. Meatballs from the deli are thawing.

Dinner tonight should be simple, involving no more than simmering the marinara with added meatballs while I consume either rum or Caesars (or both, why not), cooking the spaghettini, and nuking the prepared mushrooms.

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015)._