What's NOT for dinner:
Earlier this week I cooked up a small pack of chicken thighs in a jar of Leek Truffle braising sauce I had gotten at William Sonoma a while ago & recently excavated from the back of the cupboard. It sounded pretty tasty, but turned out to be extremely salty & otherwise somewhere between bland & blah. (I don't know if they still carry it, but I don't recommend it.) There was a lot of sauce relative to the meat (probably meant for a bigger package of chicken) so I figured I could improve & stretch the leftovers by cooking it up with some rice.
As it happened, though, the rice has scorched on the bottom. Not badly -- it actually turned out sort of like the crispy bits in a Persian rice dish, which I like. But it definitely didn't improve the leftovers. They remain quite unappealing, in fact - age just made them saltier and blah-er. So I have used the excuse of scorched rice to declare the whole mess dead, and I have disposed of it.
In its place, I think dinner tonight may be yogurt. Or a bowl of Cheerios. Or maybe an egg. I will be happy and frugal at the same time.