slight change in plans

I didn't get to work on my chocolate "mouce" or my pasta, so I'll do those things Monday night. My spaghetti sauce was touch-and-go for a while, but in the end, once I added fresh basil and my homemade sausage (plus a bit more fresh garlic), it all worked out. I hope my charges won't mind stringy bits of julienned/chiffonaded basil in their sauce; I suppose I could strain out the meat and mushrooms and purée the sauce... we'll see. I bagged the sauce up (about a gallon of it, which is way too much for four people) and stuck it in the freezer, so if I do purée it, it'll have to be Thursday night after the sauce has had a chance to thaw. Oh, yeah: I also made the meatballs (80 g each before cooking, so each meatball is almost as big as a slider patty and about half the size of a lamb testicle); they had a chance to cool down, then I bagged them up and stuck them in the freezer, too.

About thawing: with a gallon of spaghetti sauce, I didn't want to put the whole thing into a single gigantic Ziploc bag: that would take way too long to thaw. Instead, I bagged the sauce up in sandwich-sized Ziplocs so that, when thawing time comes, I can set the bags out separately and let the higher surface-area-to-volume ratio do its work.

Despite my not having completed every item on my Sunday to-do list, I'm not stressed; I can make up for lost time Monday night. It's all good.