Evening routine: My wife, Ryan Phelan, and I tend to go to restaurants or throw together a dinner around 9 p.m. I'll read a novel or a comic.
Vitellius, whose reign in 69 C.E. (that's "Common Era," the alternative to A.D., or "Anno Domini") lasted barely eight months, proved a spectacular failure on most fronts but one: the man knew how to throw together a dinner.
So if you've ever wondered how Quentin Tarantino might throw together a dinner of spaghetti and meatballs, wonder no more: It's predictably violent and magnificent (and unexpectedly cool).
Taylor, also a skilled knitter and weaver, holds a special fondness for the tactile pleasures of tabletop textiles: "Even if I'm just throwing together a quick dinner for myself, I want it to look beautiful," she says.
She doesn't have to be a stereotypical tomboy to be clever and brave - she's just as capable of throwing together a delicious dinner or picking out a stylish outfit for a college dance as she is scaling a wall or shooting a gun, as she quite casually does to save her friends from a lynx attack in the original version of The Secret at Shadow Ranch.
And who wouldn't love to watch the East Wing ladies scramble to throw together a state dinner?
So essentially it was just Nina, her father, and me, and in the evenings Nina would throw together a simple dinner or order Chinese takeout, while I was in charge of drinks.
Pete Peterman, who lived in the canyon, threw together a spaghetti dinner, which he cooked himself for hundreds and sold for $2 a plate.
Besh shows you how to throw together a delicious dinner with what you do have, with recipes like "Risotto Anything," "Curried Anything," and "Meat Ragout for Any Pasta".
So long as you have eggs in the refrigerator, you can throw together a healthy dinner in the same amount of time you'd need to order takeout.
