Today I was simply too lazy to go shopping for ingredients, and this evening I was too inspired to leave, what I was doing and eat out as I had planned, so I gave my empty kitchen a chance: Flour, rice, tahina, lentils, vegetable stock cubes, chilipowder, cummin, salt, olive oil, surviving garlic and the only fresh ingredient: three plums from the Winter Palace. Not even an onion or anything green in sight apart from a peppermint teabag and I wasn’t sure if there was any more gas in the bottle. I am known to be able to cook great food from nothing, but in a functioning household with a minimum of quality ingredients that you had forgotten you had, or your host doesn’t know how to use.
Onions and parsley wouldn't have hurt, but I simply cannot get over the delicious meal I just finished:
Fluffy chapaties, golden fried rice, chili-plum stew and tahina-dal.
Coffee, Scotch and Oum Khaltoum!
Tomorrow I’ll go shopping – or perhaps sit down somewhere under the stars and have everything served…
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but it does sound good.
