Saturday
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Order is restored, civilisation spreads forth again: I was able to go to our local market for the first time in weeks.
First I made the outline meal plan for the week:
Saturday lunch Bread and cheese
Saturday evening Big salad with leaves and salami and stuff
Sunday lunch Quiches etc (picnic at boat)
Sunday evening Roast chicken, boiled potatoes, a green veg
Lunches Monday to Friday Bread and cheese
Monday dinner Pitta bread, lamb sticks, Borani Esfanaaj (Iranian recipe)
Tuesday dinner Chicken, pistachios, oranges, rice, dried fruits, onions, parsley
Wednesday dinner Green beans & potatoes (a vegetarian recipe from Ashy Macbean's website http://ashycook.topcities.com/index.htm
Thursday dinner Mushroom and blue cheese risotto
Friday dinner Welsh rarebit with tomatoes
That led to this shopping list:
Supermarket: chocolate, pitta bread, dog food, milk, cream, dried milk, pistachios, organic yoghurt, beer
Butcher: a free-range chicken and some lamb sticks (minced lamb on a skewer)
Market: Steve's organic veg: salad leaves, other nice bits for salad, a green veg to accompany the chicken, lemons, cucumber, 1 kg spinach, juicy oranges, eating onions, parsley, 300-400g green beans, 3 medium potatoes, 1 green pepper, 1 large tomato, 4–5 cloves of garlic, exotic mushrooms. Kelly & Vi: breads. Gillian: quiches. Teresa: tomato pickle. Frank: salami. Anyone: free-range eggs. Marie: hard and blue cheeses.
Well, of course, that's only a starting point and much depends on who has what. Steve had both cherry tomatoes and homegrown ordinary tomatoes; I bought his entire stock of the latter, about 5kg, to make oven-dried tomatoes for the winter. He had damsons and miniature plums and round cucumbers and two sizes of oranges and, as well as the green beans, mixed purple and green beans. I bought five loaves from Kelly and Vi: two cheese and onion sticks and one each of spelt, plain white and herbed loaves. Gillian and Teresa weren't there, but a new chap had dressings and pickle: I bought two dressings and one pickle. Elmer had organic milk, so I bought that rather than go to the market. From Frank I bought some air-dried bacon, a whole chorizo, some rough terrine, a bottle of his dressing, two pieces of cheesecake made with goats cheese, a loaf of sourdough rye bread and six cobs of corn, picked last night (6 for €5).
Saturday's lunch was corn followed by the cheese-and-onion sticks, terrine, organic tomatoes and cucumber.
Dinner was a salad: the bag of mixed leaves with very thinly sliced onions, quartered cheery tomatoes, small pieces of chorizo and small pieces of the bacon, with a lemony dressing, with a glass of wine; cheesecake to follow. Yum yum.
We now have lots of fruit: apples, our own pears, a few figs, two types of oranges, miniature plums, damsons, our own raspberries. What riches!
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Order is restored, civilisation spreads forth again: I was able to go to our local market for the first time in weeks.
First I made the outline meal plan for the week:
Saturday lunch Bread and cheese
Saturday evening Big salad with leaves and salami and stuff
Sunday lunch Quiches etc (picnic at boat)
Sunday evening Roast chicken, boiled potatoes, a green veg
Lunches Monday to Friday Bread and cheese
Monday dinner Pitta bread, lamb sticks, Borani Esfanaaj (Iranian recipe)
Tuesday dinner Chicken, pistachios, oranges, rice, dried fruits, onions, parsley
Wednesday dinner Green beans & potatoes (a vegetarian recipe from Ashy Macbean's website http://ashycook.topcities.com/index.htm
Thursday dinner Mushroom and blue cheese risotto
Friday dinner Welsh rarebit with tomatoes
That led to this shopping list:
Supermarket: chocolate, pitta bread, dog food, milk, cream, dried milk, pistachios, organic yoghurt, beer
Butcher: a free-range chicken and some lamb sticks (minced lamb on a skewer)
Market: Steve's organic veg: salad leaves, other nice bits for salad, a green veg to accompany the chicken, lemons, cucumber, 1 kg spinach, juicy oranges, eating onions, parsley, 300-400g green beans, 3 medium potatoes, 1 green pepper, 1 large tomato, 4–5 cloves of garlic, exotic mushrooms. Kelly & Vi: breads. Gillian: quiches. Teresa: tomato pickle. Frank: salami. Anyone: free-range eggs. Marie: hard and blue cheeses.
Well, of course, that's only a starting point and much depends on who has what. Steve had both cherry tomatoes and homegrown ordinary tomatoes; I bought his entire stock of the latter, about 5kg, to make oven-dried tomatoes for the winter. He had damsons and miniature plums and round cucumbers and two sizes of oranges and, as well as the green beans, mixed purple and green beans. I bought five loaves from Kelly and Vi: two cheese and onion sticks and one each of spelt, plain white and herbed loaves. Gillian and Teresa weren't there, but a new chap had dressings and pickle: I bought two dressings and one pickle. Elmer had organic milk, so I bought that rather than go to the market. From Frank I bought some air-dried bacon, a whole chorizo, some rough terrine, a bottle of his dressing, two pieces of cheesecake made with goats cheese, a loaf of sourdough rye bread and six cobs of corn, picked last night (6 for €5).
Saturday's lunch was corn followed by the cheese-and-onion sticks, terrine, organic tomatoes and cucumber.
Dinner was a salad: the bag of mixed leaves with very thinly sliced onions, quartered cheery tomatoes, small pieces of chorizo and small pieces of the bacon, with a lemony dressing, with a glass of wine; cheesecake to follow. Yum yum.
We now have lots of fruit: apples, our own pears, a few figs, two types of oranges, miniature plums, damsons, our own raspberries. What riches!
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