Dinner dialectic

We came home hungry after a long day, both of us so tired, clearly we had to conserve energy by having only one person make dinner. But we craved different things: Eli, chicken stir fry and rice; I, red wine tomato sauce, penne and chickpeas. Steamed broccoli bridged the two meals. Everything was delicious.

I remember eating an appetizer of rice to keep Eli company, since his dinner was ready before mine...the sauce had to simmer a while.