i was in the mood for something a bit more “gourmet” than chef boyardee ravioli out of a can, so i cooked up some of this tortellini in a bag (boil water + add tortellini = done!) like what we had for our “gourmet dinner” during our camping trip up in new york. cooked up some ragu sauce to add to it, and it’s pretty good! so i’m having tortellini and corn for my veg (that “local corn” sign i saw yesterday gave me a craving).

i figured with my gourmet dinner that i’d have some of this penguin wine that mom and dad got me from their camping trip when they toured the winery. i started to worry that i wouldn’t be able to get it open when i realized that it’s actually sealed with a cork, and i couldn’t find a corkscrew in the kitchen, and i knew that the swiss army knife i have doesn’t have a corkscrew attachment. lucky for me i found right away another pocketknife i got for christmas as a stocking stuffer that had a corkscrew on it — dad had picked it up at some environmental conference he was at, so the apartment’s corkscrew says “groundwater analytical” on it and also has a bottle opener and a phillips-head screwdriver.

of course, i don’t have any wine glasses, so i had to decant my wine into a pint-sized guinness pub-mug. yes, that’s definitely a bachelor gourmet dinner.

eta: you know, after talking with cynicalscribe yesterday about christopher walken’s “the continental” character (see my icon) and how i haven’t yet thought about what to be for halloween… i think if i shave off my krebs-beard and find a lounge-jacket and offered people some cham-pani then i could pull that off. or if i shaved off my mustache and kept the krebs-beard then i could go as maynard g. krebs! hm, tough decision.