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a kitchen inventory:
right now i feel in that discontented mood that comes with having time to myself but very little to fill it with. I have completed my essays and i'm loath to watch lectures on teaching since they're so fantastically dull. Plus I'm hungry. this in itself is nothing new but it's something peculiar to me (or maybe not just to me) that hunger always feels worse when there isn't much food in the house, or when inspiration for a meal has not yet struck. I also keep feeling sick after eating, which i presume to be yet another side effect of the pills, but it doesn't exactly inspire one to heights of gastronomic excellence.
in our kitchen, as far as i'm aware we have:
eggs, the best part of two dozen
500g minced beef, that soph's mum has bought for her and which i feel guilty asking her to share since she loves it and i, at best, dislike it.
flour (self raising, plain and wholemeal)
marge
sugar
cous cous
pasta
garlic
tomato paste
chicken stock cubes and various herbs and spices
noodles (somen or soba)
baked beans
some tins of soup, tomato i think
potatoes
in the freezer are
half a dozen cocktail chipolatas
chicken dippers
a third of a loaf of bread
two salmon fillets which no matter how i cook them seem to turn out dense, dry and unpleasantly strongly fishy
peas, carrots and beans in handy steam pouch things (i was attempting to have veg on hand...)
petit pois
some large prawns
there are at least four meals in that lot, quite possibly more, but i just *can't* think of anything i'm interested in eating.
what i actually want to eat right now is a large plate of gyoza or a bowl of tortellini with butter and garlic, doubtless hunger will drive me to concoct something soon, probably some sort of stir fry looking at hose ingredients, or another meal of boiled eggs and soldiers, any other ideas welcome though.
right now i feel in that discontented mood that comes with having time to myself but very little to fill it with. I have completed my essays and i'm loath to watch lectures on teaching since they're so fantastically dull. Plus I'm hungry. this in itself is nothing new but it's something peculiar to me (or maybe not just to me) that hunger always feels worse when there isn't much food in the house, or when inspiration for a meal has not yet struck. I also keep feeling sick after eating, which i presume to be yet another side effect of the pills, but it doesn't exactly inspire one to heights of gastronomic excellence.
in our kitchen, as far as i'm aware we have:
eggs, the best part of two dozen
500g minced beef, that soph's mum has bought for her and which i feel guilty asking her to share since she loves it and i, at best, dislike it.
flour (self raising, plain and wholemeal)
marge
sugar
cous cous
pasta
garlic
tomato paste
chicken stock cubes and various herbs and spices
noodles (somen or soba)
baked beans
some tins of soup, tomato i think
potatoes
in the freezer are
half a dozen cocktail chipolatas
chicken dippers
a third of a loaf of bread
two salmon fillets which no matter how i cook them seem to turn out dense, dry and unpleasantly strongly fishy
peas, carrots and beans in handy steam pouch things (i was attempting to have veg on hand...)
petit pois
some large prawns
there are at least four meals in that lot, quite possibly more, but i just *can't* think of anything i'm interested in eating.
what i actually want to eat right now is a large plate of gyoza or a bowl of tortellini with butter and garlic, doubtless hunger will drive me to concoct something soon, probably some sort of stir fry looking at hose ingredients, or another meal of boiled eggs and soldiers, any other ideas welcome though.