A whole hill of beans | Tuesday, January 03, 2006 |
Now the new year is ushered in, and given that we now have cooking utensils today addressed - partially - the paucity of ingredients.
In Crows Nest is a branch of Macro, a small organic food chain (rather than the stack and pack cash and carry in the UK) who have a lovely big store that's been open about one year.
Today's mission was buy some lentils which so far have proven suprisingly slippery to locate. So $50 later, and with about 9 kgs of various lentils, peas and ther pulses later I trot off home on the bus, clutching a predictably papery (rather than robust, poisonous plastic) bag which was weedy enough to ensure that I didn't make it to the butchers.
I made Dahl this evening for lunch tomorrow, and although the recipie (a previously untested one) tastes good, the portions are on the small side. We also established that our oven is shit (pork chops, not dahl)
So, with a glass-half-full attitude, that's two things learnt today which can't be bad.
In Crows Nest is a branch of Macro, a small organic food chain (rather than the stack and pack cash and carry in the UK) who have a lovely big store that's been open about one year.
Today's mission was buy some lentils which so far have proven suprisingly slippery to locate. So $50 later, and with about 9 kgs of various lentils, peas and ther pulses later I trot off home on the bus, clutching a predictably papery (rather than robust, poisonous plastic) bag which was weedy enough to ensure that I didn't make it to the butchers.
I made Dahl this evening for lunch tomorrow, and although the recipie (a previously untested one) tastes good, the portions are on the small side. We also established that our oven is shit (pork chops, not dahl)
So, with a glass-half-full attitude, that's two things learnt today which can't be bad.
