Well...once again...the best-laid plans have gone awry. Oh, not seriously awry, just a slight wobble from the original. It occurred to me that the recipes for what we have on hand seemed to call for items I don't usually buy unless FOR a recipe - like parsley, cilantro and scallions. So I decided to stop at the store and get those to augment what's on the shelves, for a couple of specific recipes. Took a little time off work yesterday to run some errands and pick up a few things. At the top of my list was YEAST - remember the pizza dough I was making last night for tonight? I KNOW you can relate to this - I got all 6 items on the list - EXCEPT YEAST. Don't know what I was thinking when I walked right past it, but I wasn't thinking of picking up yeast, obviously!
So home I go - without the yeast. No pizza dough last night. We did, however, really enjoy the dried mushroom soup and Irish soda bread - it was delicious. Some leftover soup will probably make another appearance for lunch tomorrow. I think tonight we'll have egg pancakes, which we haven't had in a long time. There's a little leftover pasta from the other night, which I'll cut roughly into smaller pieces, then scramble it in with a few eggs. More of the Irish soda bread on the side and some carrot sticks will make a nice supper. We have LOTS of carrots. I'm working those in to something over the weekend.
This plan of 'eating down the pantry and the freezer' is really for our benefit, but might turn out to be a wakeup call. In future, instead of buying, say, a big bottle of ROSEWATER in order to have that 1/2 teaspoonful for a new recipe, I think I'll ask some friends what they have on hand. Then I can hope to offer something in return for a future experimental recipe of theirs. A few of us have talked about doing a spice swap - friend Becky said she has tarragon, but NEVER uses tarragon. I think I have 3 jars of ground cumin...you get the picture. Friend Bea asks what the goal of this experiment is...it's really just being tired of the same old stuff that doesn't change, and trying something new. If you try this yourself, set your own rules and post a comment about how it goes. I think I feel some new synapses forming...what about you?
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