Food box oddities

[kengr]

Every so often, something strange shows up in the food boxes. This time we have two candidates.

First is tomato paste. What, you say, that's not odd. Well, cans of tomato paste aren't odd. But *tubes* of it? Yep, I got two tubes (as in toothpaste tubes, right down to the screw cap) of tomato paste.

Second is red scallions. I hadn't even known they

Comments

[acelightning]

It's easier to measure a teaspoon of tomato paste by squeezing it out of a tube (rather than trying to spoon it accurately out of the tiny little can). And since scallions are an ingredient in almost every Asian-style dish, you might as well slice them and sprinkle them over a stir-fry. Something with mushrooms, so the colors don't clash too badly.