Food sigh

[mrissa]

Theoretically I should be able to cook with no tomatoes, no potatoes, and no mushrooms. Right? Sure. This makes sense. This is not a problem. Right? I am a resourceful person. I can do this.

It's not that I can't come up with any recipes that don't contain potatoes, tomatoes, or mushrooms. It's that either we had them last week (and still have leftovers in the fridge) or they just don't sound good. And I don't have anything deeply interesting in the fridge/pantry to distract from the lack of mushrooms. And tomatoes and potatoes. Helllllllp.

The printer decided to start whining and stinking last night after I went to bed. timprov let it cool down, and that seems to have worked all right. We hope. I'm going to unplug it before I go out today, just in case.

I'm listening to yhlee's cheerful mix CD (thanks, Yoon!), and I'm going to go downstairs and roll Frangelico truffles any minute now, as soon as they've warmed enough (they were in the fridge overnight). I'm in Christmas mode, which is awfully full of errands and chores but also of fun stuff, so I'm not complaining. I woke up in high gear this morning, plenty to get done before I have lunch with dd_b. So off I go.

Comments

[tmseay.livejournal.com]

Oh, yikes. Potatoes I could do without for a while, although I do love them dearly. Tomatoes I could survive without as long as I was allowed tomato products--tomato paste, etc. But no mushrooms? What kind of silly torture regimen is this?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The kind where we used half a pound in last night's dinner and a whole pound in Saturday night's dinner and haven't been to the store yet?

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

No tomato products of any kind? Or just no fresh tomatoes? 'Cause the black bean chili doesn't require the other two, but it does require a can of tomatoes.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmmmm. See, I have some black bean chili frozen. So if someone was amenable, we could thaw that and I could make cornbread, and that would be dinner, right there, very easy. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

What can I say? I'm good.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

How about something over rice? It's easy to make that sort of thing without those three ingredients.

B

[(Anonymous)]

Depending on the recipe peaches, mangoes, and mandarin oranges (probably regular or any other type of orange too) make fun replacements for tomatoes if you want to try something different.
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Yore

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Alas, we had no peaches, no mangoes, and no mandarin oranges, either. But now I have been to the grocery store, and we have tomatoes and mangoes. Rah.