{"id":198,"date":"2012-10-05T16:32:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T16:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myfifteenminutemealsproject.co.uk\/?p=198"},"modified":"2012-10-07T17:33:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T17:33:42","slug":"falter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myfifteenminutemealsproject.co.uk\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Falter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday night has come around. Thursday was meant to be the start of this\u00a0project. I felt tired, really tired. I didn’t want to start the project like\u00a0this. \u00a0So I didn’t. \u00a0What I should have done was go to bed early. \u00a0Instead I\u00a0went to the pub<\/a>. \u00a0I went very specifically for one beer. \u00a0Which turned out\u00a0into two. But then I did go home and to bed. \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Although I have no intention of cooking the meals in order it did seem like\u00a0a good idea to start with the first meal. \u00a0It just made sense. This requires\u00a0a bamboo steamer. \u00a0I do not have a bamboo steamer. \u00a0I have a steamer, of\u00a0sorts, and I contemplated using it. \u00a0But the recipe calls for two elements of\u00a0the dish to be served in the steamer. \u00a0I have to buy a steamer. \u00a0A bamboo\u00a0one. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I have today off. \u00a0It’s nice to not have to do anything. \u00a0 I have just bought\u00a0a new computer and I spend the large part of the day copying all the records\u00a0I have bought in the two or three years since my old laptop refused to\u00a0accept anymore music. \u00a0This will be a long job and not nearly finished yet.\u00a0Having the day off has allowed me to get a bit organised. \u00a0I pick three\u00a0meals. \u00a0One for Friday night. One for Saturday. And one for Sunday lunch. \u00a0I\u00a0go shopping for all the ingredients. \u00a0I have to go to two supermarkets\u00a0because one of the meals calls for mixed tomatoes. \u00a0Which means a mix of\u00a0colours. \u00a0Sainsbury’s only has red tomatoes. \u00a0I know Tesco sell\u00a0orange\/yellow tomatoes so I go there as well. I have included the Chicken\u00a0Dim Sum in the meals so I now have the ingredients which means I MUST buy a\u00a0bamboo steamer. \u00a0I fail. \u00a0The only bamboo steamer I can find is in the\u00a0delightful little cooking shop near my home. \u00a0It cost \u00a317. \u00a0I don’t buy it.\u00a0I know very well that if I went to a Chinese supermarket I could pick one up\u00a0for a few quid. \u00a0What this means is that tonight I cannot cook the Chicken\u00a0Dim Sum so I am cooking the Mighty Mackerel – Mixed Tomato & Quinoa Salad on\u00a0page 148 instead. \u00a0Anyway my brother is coming for the weekend and he thinks\u00a0he doesn’t like chicken. \u00a0He will be more pleased with mackerel. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thursday night has come around. Thursday was meant to be the start of this\u00a0project. I felt tired, really tired. I didn’t want to start the project like\u00a0this. \u00a0So I didn’t. \u00a0What I should have done was go to bed early. \u00a0Instead I\u00a0went to the pub. \u00a0I went very specifically for one beer. \u00a0Which turned out\u00a0into … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myfifteenminutemealsproject.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myfifteenminutemealsproject.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myfifteenminutemealsproject.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfifteenminutemealsproject.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfifteenminutemealsproject.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfifteenminutemealsproject.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfifteenminutemealsproject.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myfifteenminutemealsproject.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfifteenminutemealsproject.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfifteenminutemealsproject.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}