unlike some of my friends who feel loads better after some retail therapy... i often find that more depressing... it's just the curse of a nomadic existence you see... i try not to own too many things if i can help it.
nothing seems to be able to calm my nerves these days apart from spending more time preparing food, especially if it requires more effort than usual...
i made fried bee-hoon (rice-vermicelle) a la grand-aunty's style the other day... i made so much that i had to eat it for lunch and dinner over 3 days...
i also tried to make curry puffs... i miss them... i remember making them in home-economics... but i made so much curry that i had to make gigantic puffs... thank goodness for ready-rolled-out puff-pastry! those incredible puffs lasted about a week...
i created from randomness another courgette quiche last weekend for dinner with ruth and tammy before we headed to the ceilidh... oh my last ceilidh for moons... sob.
i don't know what else i cooked... but i didn't have much left on my shelf in the fridge this morning... one egg and some soya-milk to which i added flour and a bit of honey to make some pancake mixture for breakfast today... it was yummy with maple syrup.
i went for my weekly food/grocery shopping today... i miss the fresh market that is open 4 times a week in the mornings in quaint little T?bingen... but i never manage to make it to the Farmer's market here at Castle terrace... i am planning to go next saturday and scoop up some fresh scrumptious produce... which will be good fun. i heard that the Farmer's markets in London are really good but i doubt i will stay too long when i pop down at the end of the month... the only one i've been to is the one at Notting Hill many years ago and it's also where i bumped into my old chemistry classmate (at uwc) from japan... she looked just the same!
anyways... apart from the joy of finding some exciting if not tempting ingredients you might be able to make some use of... there's also the contemplation of what to do with them while you browse over various recipe-books to find some inspiration...
i suppose you might have gathered... the dishes i sometimes concoct are quite, well, adventurous... but that's the best part of it, i suppose...
posted by ~overacuppa~ on Sunday, 12 June, 2005 at 23:18 hrsyes, being adventurous is the fun part of cooking!
Posted by: dsd on Monday, 13 June, 2005 at 04:00 hrsglad you think so too! =C)
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