Big dinner! We made started out with pasta and sauce -- red sauce with onion, garlic, freezer-burned squash, and tomato -- and with a starter of bread, olive oil, and vinegar. We opened some wine -- a white zinfandel we picked up in Sonoma, which was great, but too light and sweet for what we were about to eat.

Disaster struck as Alex was finishing the sauce and I was making banana bread for desert: a whole canister of salt poured into the pasta sauce. Someone had forgotten to put the lid back on after a pinch went into the banana bread. We fixed it, but only by adding two more cans of tomato sauce and another can of diced tomatos, diluting the flavor a bit. Alex found the whole thing quite hilarious. Turned out okay in the end -- the pasta sauce wasn't great, but at his suggestion we put some giardiniera peppers in the bowls, which somewhat drowned out a lot of the rest of the flavor. The banana bread was sweet and tasty, a nice end to go with the Daily Show on a quiet night at home (quiet aside from earlier hilarity trying to get four-feed video chatting to work).