Pantry Dinner

The snow, scheduled for late today, arrived last night. The football arrived at the scheduled time. Various writing projects are not on time. A good night, in short, for a dinner that doesn’t need marketing.

• Thin slices of saucisson sec
• Tarmasalata on wasa crisps
• Niman Ranch Thai sausage, with oven-roasted squash
• Goat cheese souflée
• Meyer lemon cake

Basically, leftovers. But, if you have nice leftovers, you can make a nice dinner of them. Souflées are terrific for nights like this: warm, filling, and easy; McGee observes that all the scary things about souflées are old wive's tales, and that if opening the oven causes a souflée to fall, closing the door will make it rise again.