Nothing screams tradition like a Sunday night dinner. You all sit around the table, as the enticing smell from the kitchen wafts into the dining area, with your tummy empty and your eyes hungry. The Sunday night dinner table is a place for conversations to flow, laughs to be shared and memories to be made.
Or Sunday night dinner is getting food delivered while you binge-watch old sitcoms on the couch. Similar to every other night. Whatever floats your boat.
Regardless of what Sunday night dinner means to you, the feeling of dreading Monday is pretty much universal. Garfield, pasta connoisseur and plump feline is known for his distaste of the working week, and most of us can relate on a spiritual level. Therefore, to live like Garfield, you might as well make Sunday night dinners as memorable as possible to set you up in the best possible way for a good — no, a GREAT — Monday.
To help with that, Pizza Hut has taken a leaf out of Garfield’s book and released two pizzas topped with actual pasta — yes, you read that right — so you can indulge just the way you need to before tackling another Monday. Pizza topped with pasta bolognese or mac & cheese — either way, you’re winning.
But, if you’re still looking to make your Sunday night dinner as chaotic and unhinged as possible, we’ve got some ideas to get you started.
Turn the Whole Thing Upside Down
As we said, Sunday night dinners are a traditional bonding experience, regardless of what you’re eating. So a really easy way to get anarchic with it is to flip the whole thing upside down. Start with dessert first, then enjoy your main meal (in whatever form that may be) before finishing off with some garlic bread. Your stomach and your brain might be confused as you work your way backwards, but, if nothing else, it’ll be memorable.
In fact, you might unlock some long-secret ability to turn the week backwards, meaning you won’t even have to worry about Monday at all. No promises, though.
Recipe Roulette
You’ve seen the TikTok videos, you’ve winced as someone is forced to make a sandwich using sour cream, kimchi, white chocolate and kale. Why don’t you now disrupt one of the week’s most sacred meals and take on recipe roulette for yourself?
Write every ingredient in your house that you can think of in a piece of paper, separate them into different bowls (protein, produce, spices, sauce etc.), and let fate do its thing as you pull out an option from each bowl. We can’t promise the end result will taste good, we can’t even promise that the end result will even be possible. But the fun is in trying.
Plus, if it’s that awful, just scrap the whole idea and order pizza instead.
Fusion Feasting
Cuisine fusion is by no means a new concept, there are entire restaurants built around the very premise. But, that doesn’t mean it can’t be fun and also extremely chaotic. Top a pizza with some pad see ew. Fill up a taco with teriyaki chicken. Ramp up your ramen with hot dogs. Your imagination is the only boundary here — so you may as well let it run wild. Just don’t blame us if it doesn’t taste great.
Alternatively, you can fuse the same cuisine together, as Pizza Hut has done with their new pasta bolognese and mac & cheese pizzas. Trust us — it tastes even better than it sounds.
Pizza Hut’s new pasta bolognese and mac & cheese-topped pizzas are available to order now for a limited time only.