Things that happen when you shop without a grocery list
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oyceterOr, in which I go to the supermarket and make up meal plans on the spot
I had to go to the supermarket to buy pads and other necessary items, and since I was lazy today, I didn't make up a list of the things I wanted to cook in the following week. Originally, I was just going to buy frozen dinners. See above re: laziness.
But the produce aisle, it seduced me, with its freshness and its occasionally spraying mists, which I realize are horrible for the vegetables but lend a certain green smell to the area. So I went for the basics -- onions, carrots, celery, and garlic. Then I thought, well, hey, I'll just defrost some white beans and make rosemary and white bean soup!
Alas, I did not think exactly in those terms, or I wouldn't have forgotten the rosemary.
And then, since I was there, I decided to get leeks. What was I going to do with leeks? Who knows! I figured I could always dump them in the soup if need be.
Then I remembered that I've been wanting to try cockaleekie soup. Which meant chicken. Which lead back to 20-clove garlic chicken, since I was probably going to have carrots to spare. So I got yams, chicken thighs and wings (wings for the soup).
So I was set! Except I got Sun chips, which, by the way, are incredibly addictive and taste wonderfully grainy, so I could finish the rest of my yogurt-cucumber dip and maybe make hummus later too.
By the time I was in line to check out, I realized I had forgotten to get pads, which were the one thing I had come for.
When I got home, I started making marbled cheesecake bars, to use up the baking chocolate and mascarpone leftover from the chocolate hazelnut mousse cake attempt, and proceeded to bake the crust and promptly realize that the recipe called for 24 oz. of cream cheese, while I only had about 10 oz. of mascarpone (I was just going to substitute the mascarpone and maybe separate the eggs instead of beat them in at once so that there'd be an egg white foam as well).
I have now decided maybe the leeks will go into the bean soup, that I shall attempt to make Chinese style chicken soup, and that I need to go back to the supermarket for cured ham for the chicken soup, bamboo shoots, rosemary, cream cheese, and canned tomatoes.
Someday I will master the art of the grocery list.
I had to go to the supermarket to buy pads and other necessary items, and since I was lazy today, I didn't make up a list of the things I wanted to cook in the following week. Originally, I was just going to buy frozen dinners. See above re: laziness.
But the produce aisle, it seduced me, with its freshness and its occasionally spraying mists, which I realize are horrible for the vegetables but lend a certain green smell to the area. So I went for the basics -- onions, carrots, celery, and garlic. Then I thought, well, hey, I'll just defrost some white beans and make rosemary and white bean soup!
Alas, I did not think exactly in those terms, or I wouldn't have forgotten the rosemary.
And then, since I was there, I decided to get leeks. What was I going to do with leeks? Who knows! I figured I could always dump them in the soup if need be.
Then I remembered that I've been wanting to try cockaleekie soup. Which meant chicken. Which lead back to 20-clove garlic chicken, since I was probably going to have carrots to spare. So I got yams, chicken thighs and wings (wings for the soup).
So I was set! Except I got Sun chips, which, by the way, are incredibly addictive and taste wonderfully grainy, so I could finish the rest of my yogurt-cucumber dip and maybe make hummus later too.
By the time I was in line to check out, I realized I had forgotten to get pads, which were the one thing I had come for.
When I got home, I started making marbled cheesecake bars, to use up the baking chocolate and mascarpone leftover from the chocolate hazelnut mousse cake attempt, and proceeded to bake the crust and promptly realize that the recipe called for 24 oz. of cream cheese, while I only had about 10 oz. of mascarpone (I was just going to substitute the mascarpone and maybe separate the eggs instead of beat them in at once so that there'd be an egg white foam as well).
I have now decided maybe the leeks will go into the bean soup, that I shall attempt to make Chinese style chicken soup, and that I need to go back to the supermarket for cured ham for the chicken soup, bamboo shoots, rosemary, cream cheese, and canned tomatoes.
Someday I will master the art of the grocery list.
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Fri, Mar. 3rd, 2006 08:41 am (UTC)Also, I just remembered I wanted to ask you -- do the Oscars figure largely into your travel plans for Sunday? 'Cause if you're taking the 5 o'clock train home, you're pretty much going to exactly miss them, but I didn't know if you were Tivoing or ignoring them or whatever. Just wanted to make sure we're on the same page. :)
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Fri, Mar. 3rd, 2006 02:43 pm (UTC)One of my friends brought salsa Sun Chips to a party last weekend, and they were soooo good. I like the other flavors, but these were super-yummy.
Grocery lists are dull, though. At least ours is. Buuu.
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Fri, Mar. 3rd, 2006 06:04 pm (UTC)And yay, see you Sunday!
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Fri, Mar. 3rd, 2006 06:12 pm (UTC)*is happy*
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Fri, Mar. 3rd, 2006 06:14 pm (UTC)The sad thing is that this is not a new thing for me, but I seem to have a flat learning curve.
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Fri, Mar. 3rd, 2006 06:49 pm (UTC)I am planning to buy some Gruyere, bread, and leeks so I can replicate the to-die-for Clementine sandwich that has melted Gruyere, melted leeks, and bacon.
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