Tuna and Pizza!

Tonight Brad arrived home not feeling well.  Clearly dinner had to be postponed. After awhile I realized the original dinner plan needed to be canceled for tonight.  Something I have to admit, I am the absolute worst at making dinner on the fly.  I don't know why? It's simply how it is for me. When the original dinner plan goes out the window I find myself walking back and forth between our fridge and our pantry, blankly staring at both. I can prepare quick meals, that's not the issue. The issue is that I can't come up with something to make without a plan and within minutes. I'm a from scratch well planned out type of home cook. Those qualities do not work in my favor on nights like tonight.

Perhaps, most people have canned goods or frozen meals on hand for such nights. I'm not sure how it works for other families? But seriously if you needed to make a complete and balanced meal from our quick grab canned food section, may the good Lord be with you. You will be stuck eating canned tomatoes or tomato paste. Oh there's also some tuna. But you'll have to fight with the cat over the tuna. Good luck! My canned food section is all about ingredients that go into other dishes. Cans of soup, cans of chili....um, try next door! I have ingredients! No full meals just floating around in my pantry.

So what did I come up with? I was saved by some leftover pizza we brought home from our fave pizza place the other night. And tuna, no Piper didn't get any!  I had a tuna sandwich and gave my husband all the pizza. I made a salad as the star side dish of the evening. Basically we had lunch for dinner! Hey, whatever works sometimes. Clearly not one of my shining moments in the kitchen.