Sandwich Night

The skies over Bangkok are angry this week.  Last night, booming thunder and bursts of lightning shook our little apartment so frequently, that I was wide awake for a good couple hours around midnight.  It was all the talk at the office this morning.  Seems that no one slept well in this city last night.

A sleepless night of loud storms leads to a grumpy population that is all the more disheartened when, at 5pm the following day, the sky takes on a distinctly greenish black hue (which, incidentally, in my state of Kansas would mean a tornado is imminent).

I had a wet walk home.

I had plans tonight to make Melissa Clark's seemingly simple Roasted Broccoli with Shrimp.

It's simple, except when the prospect of de-heading and peeling all of your shrimp is about as appealing as slogging back to your office in your already-saturated favorite Target flats.

After a hot shower in my nice dry apartment, I scrapped the shrimp and broccoli plan and pulled out our favorite dinner trick.  A platter of sandwich fixins' for a make-your-own sandwich night.  With these rolls from the freezer, a few favorite toppings, and a quick-roasted batch finely chopped squash, dinner was done and I had written this blog post in the amount of time it took Frank to go for a run (in the nice dry gym).

Take that rainy season.

P.S.  In September, a year ago, I wrote another blog post about changing dinner plans thanks to the rain.  Guess I should have seen it coming.  😉