return dinner: mussels

We had NO groceries in the fridge when we got home Monday night. No, scratch that: Tuesday morning. 2:00 AM almost when we got in the door. Jewel may be open at that time, but we're decidedly not buying proteins from there, thank you. So then, it was off to Whole Foods on the way home from work yesterday, and a need to make up a reasonably quick dinner. Not long after we got home, I had a couple of bowls of mussels in a thick tomato, saffron, and basil sauce set out before us. Ah, for the days when we used to mop up meals like this with good, tasty bread.

A nice meal with a French rose and a handsome man out on the balcony!