For dinner last night I made Rigatoni Brunelleschi, a grandiosely-named but delicious pasta from The Campagna Table. It’s very simple. You take some beef and braise it in a lot of red wine with some onion and rosemary until it completely falls apart (I helped it along with a potato masher). Then serve it with pasta. Laurie suggested that it would probably go better with polenta than rigatoni. I mentioned this to Iris over dinner.

> **Me:** We could have this sauce with polenta while Mama’s in California.

> **Iris:** I don’t like beef and polenta. How about chips and polenta?

> **Me:** Those don’t really go together.

> **Iris:** Polenta is yellow. Chips are yellow. So they *do* go together. Red and green things don’t go together. Like a lime…and the skin of an apple.

Earlier Iris and I borrowed a microphone from my dad because we’re discussing the idea of a podcast. Out of nowhere, Iris said:

> **Iris:** *You’re* a podcast. I’m going to put you on my blog.

> **Me:** What’s your blog called?

> **Iris:** Iris Out Loud.