Dear Diary,

I decided that it would be fun to have dinners that start with the same letter as the days of the week.

We started our alliterative adventures with Mac and Cheese Monday.

I don’t think I’ve ever cooked three boxes of mac and cheese at the same time before. There’s something slightly disturbing about putting a stick and a half of butter into the pot. I could feel my arteries clogging as the butter melted into a lake. For old times sake, I added peas and tuna to my bowl. It was not as good as I remembered. The entire appeal of boxed mac and cheese is that weirdly almost sweet processed fake cheese flavor. It’s unhealthy, and you love it for being unhealthy. Yes, adding tuna and peas made it “healthier”, but it also masked too much of the “unhealthy” flavor, making it seem “unhealthy” because the magical flavor was missing.

Next was Taco Tuesday, which we frequently have on Tuesdays, so basically, it was just another Tuesday. Sometimes we have Taquito Tuesday, when all I want to do is turn the oven on. If I’m feeling extra motivated, I’ll get out the steaming tray and we’ll have Tamale Tuesday.

Then there was Whatever Weirdness You Wanna Eat Wednesday. I didn’t have a clear vision. Frozen waffles were made, hotdogs were cooked, leftovers were warmed. The Weirdness Award went to the hot dog taco, which had Tuesday’s taco ingredients with the addition of a hot dog. As long as it gets eaten, I don’t care. Knock yourself out, kid. Mama celebrated Wine Wednesday. Mama will be celebrating Wine Wednesday for the rest of the week, or until the bottle is empty, whichever comes first.

But what about Thursday? Do you take the easy way out and find foods that start with T, or do you commit to the bit and go with TH? Well, luckily for me I had at least one TH food on hand, so we had Thai Vegetable Gyoza Thursday! This was supplemented with thorange chicken and thried rice, and of course, mama had her thwine.

I haven’t decided what to cook for tonight’s Friday Feast. French fries? Falafel? I will be going to the store later. Maybe I’ll try to find the most random foods that start with F and serve a Farcuterie of Friday Foods. Scratch that. Replacing the CH in charcuterie with the letter F is not as “cuterie” as I thought it would be. It makes me want to gag and go light a candle. I think I’ll still try to find unique F foods, though, as this appeals to my chaotic good alignment. I need manageable amounts of chaos to keep life interesting, otherwise I’m drowning in a sea of normality, and this would fit the bill nicely. Besides, I know that whatever I ultimately decide on will pair nicely with my fwine.