Whew! Being domestic is _hard_! I had a new recipie for sauted chicken and artichoke hearts I wanted to try out, so I was hoping to just pick up a slightly larger pan and some wooden spoons and be out of there. Oh, no. After getting a Calphalon pan, a new spatula, replacement heads for my razor, and "new bathmats":http://feralboy.com/log/archives/000161/, I managed to stagger out of "Target":http://target.com/ having "only" spent $100. Then it was over to the "grocery store":http://gianteagle.com/ to get my ingredients. Ok... first of all, good olive oil is _expensive_! And don't get me started about the organic chicken that I bought... $6 a pound instead of $4.

Everything went well after that. Pat made me a cd full o' Italian songs[1] to get in the mood for cooking (the cd was labeled "gravy music"), and I think the dish turned out pretty well. I'll know for sure today.

*Update:* It was very, very tasty. Heavy on the garlic, "which I like":http://feralboy.com/log/archives/000186/.

fn1. Basically "Mob Hits":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000IGQI?v=glance with some extra "Frank":http://www.sinatrafamily.com/ thrown in.