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Showing posts with label ingredient brainstorm. Show all posts
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Monday, March 23, 2009

Ingredient Brainstorm


Hmmmm...here's what came out of my last trip to the market. Any creative thoughts people?

-potatoes
-pears
-tomatoes
-lentils
-canellini beans
-kidney beans
-an eggplant
-lettuce
-canned san marzano tomatoes
-herby chipolata sausages
-basil

Judging by the colors represented here, it hasn't been the healthiest shopping I've ever done.

My only idea so far is a backward version of a bolognese....taking the sausages out of their casings, and using the meat as a kind of mince. Stir fried eggplants, sausage mince, canned tomatoes, loads of fresh basil, lots of Parmesan, over penne

I'm really in an eggplant mood, although I don't even think they re in season. 

Hmmm.....

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Ingredient Brainstorm



Heres a quick thought: 
an ingredient brainstorm.

These are the ingredients that I have just bought from the newly discovered Marche de Passy.

I had an interesting little overture with the veggie man, who told me I have a 'belle souris', and as far as I know, 'souris' means 'rat.' Confusion entailed, and some English was used to clarify that the word he used was actually 'sourire' which means 'smile.'

Exasperated sigh.

Anyway these are the things I picked up, and I'm wondering what creative concoctions might be spawned from them.

  1. 2 celery stalks
  2. 2 carrots
  3. 1 heirloom tomato
  4. 3 roma tomatoes
  5. fresh parsley
  6. 2 onions
  7. feta
  8. humus
  9. red wine

  10. Any ideas.....?