So earlier this evening I was looking in the fridge, and what did I see? Pickles, cheese, milk, bread, margarine, apples, bananas, pre-chopped garlic, cheddar, grated parmesan, a loaf of 100% whole-wheat bread, stir-fry sauce, a couple slices of deli-ham and provalone, ten tortillas, sour cream, all-purpose marinade, miracle whip, baby carrots, romaine lettuce and Patak’s hot curry paste. In the freezer — instant pancake mix, 2 veggie patties, frozen peppers, half a bag of some frostbitten mixed veggies, oven-cook french fries and an almost-unopened 1-litre tub of Ben & Jerry’s “Smores” flavoured ice-cream. In the pantry — several jars of pasta sauce, ovaltine, rotini and macaroni, several cans of soup, vinegar, rice, maple syrup, one (count it) one box of KD, condensed milk, green cardamom, fennel, 10 black-pepper pappadums, sugar, flour, certain unspecified junk food and a tin of smoked oysters. By the stove — extra virgin olive oil, salt, pepper, two types of hot sauce, mango chutney, worchestershire sauce and three whole cloves of garlic. On the counter — four kaiser rolls and a bag of table potatoes.
And I was thinking — “man, do I ever need more variety”. I ended up eating two boiled potatoes.
Now that I’ve written out all the stuff I could have chosen from, I don’t think it’s variety that’s the problem. Think this is more of a case of needing inspiration. There must be *something* interesting I could make with all this stuff. Have any ideas?
What’s your favorite recipe?