chez gorgeoux: make do with what's around, and what a find Tweet

baked fennel, crisp bacon & fresh apple, originally uploaded by gorgeoux.

We've canceled all the food deliveries, organic or not. We've found ways to not break our hands with carrier bags each time we're in a cool food aisle. We've filled countless jars with many pastas, rices, dried this and dried that. We've even taken serious action to keep our fridge sexy—or, as my tired self put it last evening during the picnic in the park, keep our sex fridgy (God forbid! or, for the Romanian reader, Doamne apara si pazeste!). We've yet to learn to make do with what's around, to make do beautifully again and again.

Though working at home is a bliss and the interruption of cooking lunch or dinner is as blissful, rarely do I stop to ask: could this be any better? On a day I did, last week, it urned out it could. Better yet, baked fennel, apples, and bacon were all we had around. Plus the odd lemon. Enter the tasty, tasty salad that convinced me I haven't looked good enough at fennel, though there were the soup and the first salad and the second salad. I want to start a fennel quest. Provided we remember to buy fennel. If only to make this third salad again and again.