New Feature: DadMeals

It turns out that Mom-types really appreciate it when Dad-types cook dinner every once in a while.

That's all well and good if you can cook anything besides cereal (skim milk, please!) and TV Dinners (stir and rotate!), which I can not.

Or so I thought.

In the interest of helping Babe-O understand that 99.99999 percent of the guys out there are not good enough for her, I try to be as kickass a husband as possible. So lately I have been venturing into the kitchen for little adventures in cooking, much like a drunk newborn fawn venturing out on those wobbly drunk newborn fawn legs.

DadMeals will be a recurring feature that breaks down how to make pathetically easy meals that will get you much spousal love.

Today's DadMeal: Cheese Ravioli with Garlic Bread

What you need: Frozen ravioli, jarred spaghetti sauce, box of texas toast

(if you don't like things that are frozen, jarred, or boxed, stop reading right now, fancypants.)

Prep time: 20 minutes

How to:

1. Get your water boiling. Use a big pot.
   
2. Dump your sauce into a small pot on low heat. Stir it whenever you feel like you haven't done something in a while.
   
3. Dump frozen ravioli into boiling water. It will splash and hurt.
   
4. Set timer for whatever ravioli bag says, probably about 16 minutes. Stir ravioli occasionally.
   
5. Preheat toaster oven to whatever toast box says, probably about 425F. For Celsius, go back to Russia, comrade.
   
6. With about five minutes left on timer, put frozen toast into toaster oven.
   
7. Have you been stirring your sauce?
   
8. Watch that toast. It goes from squishy to burnt in about 15 seconds. Remove when brown.
   
9. When timer goes off, dump ravioli through strainer, let sit.
   
10. Grab plates, take drink orders, find something for the baby to do while you two eat.
    
11. Ravioli on plates, sauce on ravioli, toast on side.
    
12. Collect brownie points.
    

Technically, after the meal you could finally be on the good end of that "I cook, you clean" crap. But if you clean up yourself, you'll be a hero.