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Friday 26 July 2002
Until the first week of this month,
we used to live right next door to a supermarket, which was
expensive and a tad over eager in its 'gourmet' approach to
retail but extremely convenient none-the-less. At 7pm on any
given night we could flip through jamie or delia, nigella
or stephanie and then dash next door to get the ingredients
for a ragout, a rogan josh or a risotto. Forget to buy tamarind
sauce? No problem - someone watches the stove while someone
else runs downstairs and around the corner to find not one,
but three brands of tamarind sauce.
Oh, how I pine for those days! Now,
unless I want to haul my belly up hill to the tiny independent
supermarket in the local shops where they don't even stock
my favourite brand of milk, we have to plan our week's eating
ahead and do one or two big shopping excursions at convenient
times such as 9pm Wednesday nights or first thing Saturday
mornings. So Friday night is here and I have decided that
(taking Suzanne's
idea) I will use what we have left in the fridge and the cupboard
to make dinner. Prerequisites include the fact that it must
be healthy, and something we haven't already eaten twice this
week (pasta and dahl are therefore not on the menu). So the
ingredients can include:
- 3 potatoes
- 4 eggs
- alfalfa sprouts
- 2 small cans of tuna
- cheese slices
- frozen waffles
- a small bag of old shriveled mushrooms
hmmm. Pizza anyone?
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