Escargot Profiterole

My daughter has impetuously decided to spend the evening with her Mimi, and when the child is away... Mom and Dad eat crap. Or maybe not crap.

For breakfast, the daughter had leftover broccoli pizza. We had a homemade multigrain roll toasted with imported French butter.

Now, for dinner, we headed to Wegmans. We are downloading the Star Trek movie (my husband said to get the HD version and it's twice as large as the standard file and it's taking forever.) What did we buy? Not groceries, per se... But the makings for a crazy fun dinner. And some other stuff.

Dinner: Escargot Profiterole (Wegmans Seafood hors d'oeuvres) with a red Bordeaux) and dates. Either coffee and pain au chocolat (chocolate croissants) OR lemon bars (with tea?). And for the movie, Spicy Thai Kettle Potato chips.

What we bought:

• one 8-ounce bottle of mint chocolate milk for the husband, $1.35
• Escargot Profiterole, from the frozen food aisle, 9 pieces, $9.99
• Spicy Thai potato chips, Kettle Chips brand, $2.99
• Wegmans 100 percent juice (grape), $1.99
• 2 pack of lemon bars from the bakery, $3
• 2 chocolate croissants, $2.50
• Organic bulk field mix, for the tortoise, 78 cents
• bananas, 49 cents a pound, 84 cents
• Fresh dates, $5.99 a pound, $3.65

Update: The dates went wonderfully with the bordeaux, and I think we're going to opt for the pain au chocolat for dessert to better accompany the red wine (split infinitive- oh no). The escargot were fine, tasted more or less like nothing... but the sauce and pastry.

Another update: I gave my daughter one of the leftover escargot appetizers and explained it was snails. Her snail fell out of his pastry, so she put him back in and popped him in her mouth. She loved it.