almost a bit like todays lunch, but i pulled it off. like i've said before,
theres only so many things that you can get at a small corner shop. I had about
4kg ground beef mince at my disposal (but of course not exclusively for my use)
- which made it obvious that everything in my kitchen, and the small corner
shop, would have to work around beef mince.
Scotch eggs? no. too prissy - something a bit more.. hands on, a bit more
rustic. Buritos? Tacos? - that would be great if i could find any in the store;
i could of course make them , but i would cringe at the idea of not being able
to find one ingredient, and scrapping the idea, leaving me with an empty
stomach, and a full kitchen sink.
Fasta pasta - that of which im sick of; the same old bolignaise, or
cabonara meatballs.
my options were fast running out, no bread, sick of rice, sick of pasta,
and out of any corn based carbohydrate ingredient for miles ahead. - only
thing left, my old favourite(although it borderlines on cliche).
POTATOES! - i had the meat, and my carb based base - now what to do with
it? No spices, no herbs, just a barren fridge with the essentials, and a pantry
with the basics.
What ended up inside, baked beans, mince, onion garlic, chili, peppercorns,
Chardonay point noir, tomato sauce, edam cheese, butter.
Along with the left over edam, and some store bought sour cream - amazingly
the mish mash that i called a meat sauce worked, i dont know why it did, because
as i added the week old white wine, i suspected i had made a mistake by not
going to the burger spot for a deluxe with chips.
it smelt a bit weird, it looked a bit off colour, but hey, after a bit of
tweaking, it was cool. The wine started off making the mince a bit sweet,
counteracted with a bit of chili and pepercorn, which of course still left the
mice bland and palate deprived, so in went the tomato sauce, which pehaps offset
the tarness in the mince, and on and on the tweaking went, so after careful
application of cooking appropriation, fast cooking, slow stewing, flaming
etc.
It worked out perfect. Except the potatoes were undercooked, which always
seemed to happen, so i said "bugger this" and threw them in the microwave.
i've commited a few culinary crimes today, but i'm proud of myself today, hence the unusually long entry - cheers
if you've made it this far.<----END FOOD TALK---->
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defiant.
unique.