Shopping and cooking
Sep. 17th, 2011 02:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daidoji_giseiMy alarm went off at 5 am this morning and somehow I slept in until 6 am. I suspect I shut off my alarm and went back to sleep, something I sometimes do on weekends but practically never on work days.
After a rushed breakfast I got dressed and hurried off to catch a bus. I had a paycheck to deposit and groceries to buy! So far my food budget experiment has been going well. At midmonth I was running $27 dollars under budget, so I decided to 'invest' that in a new pressure cooker pan. I had discovered last winter that pressure cookers were the Best Thing Ever for cooking dried beans, and since I have a lot of bean dishes in my recipe files this seemed like a good idea. The idea of having access to practically-instant mujadarah makes my mouth water.
The grocery store near my credit union had a sale on red and green bell peppers, so I bought LOTS of them--8 of each color. Some I plan on cooking with this week but most will be chopped up and tucked into the freezer for the coming months in which they retail for roughly the same cost as gold. (OK, not quite that much. But they do get really expensive.) I think I will be making some stuffed peppers, either from my mom's recipe or one of the ones in my Middle Eastern cookbook. Given the numbers of peppers I have, I could do both. It seems lavish, but when peppers are in season it seems right to take advantage of them.
After a rushed breakfast I got dressed and hurried off to catch a bus. I had a paycheck to deposit and groceries to buy! So far my food budget experiment has been going well. At midmonth I was running $27 dollars under budget, so I decided to 'invest' that in a new pressure cooker pan. I had discovered last winter that pressure cookers were the Best Thing Ever for cooking dried beans, and since I have a lot of bean dishes in my recipe files this seemed like a good idea. The idea of having access to practically-instant mujadarah makes my mouth water.
The grocery store near my credit union had a sale on red and green bell peppers, so I bought LOTS of them--8 of each color. Some I plan on cooking with this week but most will be chopped up and tucked into the freezer for the coming months in which they retail for roughly the same cost as gold. (OK, not quite that much. But they do get really expensive.) I think I will be making some stuffed peppers, either from my mom's recipe or one of the ones in my Middle Eastern cookbook. Given the numbers of peppers I have, I could do both. It seems lavish, but when peppers are in season it seems right to take advantage of them.
