There was some pumpkin and lentil soup left over form last night’s dinner. Not enough for dinner tonight, I thought, so I pondered ways to recycle it into another dinner for two. A bit of searching turned up an idea to turn leftover pumpkin soup into a pasta sauce, by adding bacon.
That sounded good, but I couldn’t use bacon because of my wife not eating meat. So, I thought, what vegetarian substitute could I add? Haloumi cheese, fried crispy! It’s crisp and salty like bacon, and I could cut it into small pieces. Only we had no haloumi in the house.
Okay, I can take Scully for a walk before dinner and get some haloumi from the nearest supermarket. It’s a small local one, more like a corner store than a major supermarket, so I check their web site and yes, they stock haloumi, and it says it’s available for delivery, so presumably it’s in stock.
I walk over with Scully, tie her up outside, and go in to grab some haloumi. No haloumi. The section in the fridge where it should be, where the price label is, is full of feta instead. I dig through it all to see if there’s any haloumi hiding behind all the feta, but no. I ask a staff member who is stacking ice cream into the freezer if they have any haloumi, and he says no, it’s out of stock.
Hmmm. Well. Feta? Yeah, maybe the hard, crumbly type of feta will work okay. I won’t need to fry it either. Okay, so I grab a pack of feta and go pay for it. I untie Scully and we start walking home.
A minute later, as we’re walking, I remember we have feta in the fridge at home.
Oh well. I guess we can always use more feta. Anyway, I get home, do some things, my wife gets home from work, I start making dinner. I get out the leftover soup… and discover there’s a lot more left than I thought. Plenty for two people to have soup again for dinner, with a side dish, and way more than would be needed for a pasta sauce.
So, we have the soup heated up. And don’t use any of the feta at all.
Tomorrow: Search for recipes that use feta.
In other news, I scheduled a new iteration of my 6-week course in Creative Thinking & Problem Solving, with an example exercise in board game design, for kids on Outschool. This one is on Mondays, at a suitable time zone for Australia/Asia (early evening), and Europe (late morning). The Outschool class listing is here.
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