My PT used a massage gun on my shoulders & back after our session this morning, which prompted us to get one for our household. This could quite possibly be the best purchase of the year (so far), even though we also treated ourselves to a new Cuisinart food processor. We’ve had our old one for 20 years & it was time for an upgrade 
Aldi had just ONE more bag of the tzatziki chips left that we promptly snatched up; maybe I’ll get lucky at the other branch uptown.
It still sucks coming home from errands and not seeing our sweet monkey boy greet us with ‘silent’ meows through the front window, then running to the door to head-butt us and plop himself on the carpet for belly rubs. I miss him terribly and absolutely hate being in the house too long.
In that sense, getting a surprise call from the guy who makes the fab Detroit-style pizza in town & who considers me a confidante was a welcome distraction (although I wish he didn’t call me as much 
). Apparently, the owners of the new place that hired him have held $2,000 worth of tips from the staff, are buying cheap ingredients, and gave more shifts to a new hire. Yikes. I had to get my PIC to shout about an impending guest visit to interrupt his rant & get off the phone 
My ladies and I will try to show him some love at a local German-ish place he’s going back to.
Anyway, after this dramatic convo I was ready to hop into the kitchen to prepare dinner in continuation of our rather randomly Italian-themed Wednesday. We still had two little containers of — ironically — the Detroit pizza’s excellent vodka sauce in the fridge as well as an open jar of Carbone’s marinara. I sautéed a tiny shallot in a bit of olive oil, toasted a squeeze o’ tomato paste, a big hunka ‘nduja that needed to go, and a healthy amount of Calabrian peppers before adding the two sauces. Came out great, but we still have sauce leftover 
Caesar with raw egg dressing (anchovies, garlic, lotsa fresh ground black pepper, egg, lemon juice, EVOO, parm) and panko in lieu of croutons I don’t care for on the side.
Bellissimo!
