Impromptu cooking

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Hi Everyone, have you ever noticed how great food tastes when it’s a dish you didn’t plan or don’t quite have the ingredients for it, or you just threw it together on the spur of the moment? And have you ever noticed that if you try to replicate it, the dish itself or the flavour, it never comes close to what you remember? When this happens it is so disappointing I tell you.

One Sunday, about a month ago, I was feeling lazy and I didn’t want to cook, but because my eating options were limited – fast food – I was forced to go into the kitchen. While I like a good box of chicken and chips, I was not in the mood. And I did not feel like leaving the house. I took out the pork I had bought the day before, …..




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