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Oct. 1st, 2015 03:50 pmOne of the reasons I was excited about moving to Cairo was having a fridge and an oven and being able to cook. Since I got here I have been far more excited about restaurants and delivery food, and the oven is unused and the fridge is full of water bottles and chocolate. For the past two nights my dinner has been a small bowl of frozen peas (not cooked), a small cucumber, an apple, and a baby twix.
For my wallet and probably stupid things like sodium levels or what have you, I need to make myself cook. When my last laptop died it took with it all my saved up online recipes, and everything I can think of that I liked is either cake or contains pork (sometimes both), and while you can get pork in Egypt it's not all that easy. (Also not easy - tonic water. All I have found so far is a single measly can. The intern put club soda in my Hendricks the other day and acted like that was acceptable. It wasn't.)
I am looking through the Kitchn online recipe list, which is sort of helpful but I wish there was a box I could tick saying "I do not live in Brooklyn and even if I did I wouldn't eat this shit" to rule out the more ridiculous recipes. The recipe repositories where you can tell it what you have and it finds you recipes aren't helpful because I don't have anything. My go to recipes that I would periodically make are maple glazed butternut squash casserole, red wine and chorizo risotto, roast chicken, and a sausage casserole. Maybe I will go to a supermarket and find an item to then base a meal around. If you wanted to suggest some places to find recipes online, or link me to some favourites, that would be kind. I will repay that kindness by being too fussy for words and hating mushrooms, cauliflour, courgette/zucchini, aubergine/eggplant, cheese that isn't cheddar or mozzerella, fish, too much spice, eggs, bananas, avocado, artichokes, but otherwise being quite grateful for suggestions that are easyish and can have leftovers frozen. Oh, I also don't like chickpeas, lentils and most beans that aren't baked beans.
I found a recipe that looked reasonable except it uses cottage cheese. I don't like cottage cheese and am distrustful of its presence. What will it taste like cooked? It was in a pasta bake.
For my wallet and probably stupid things like sodium levels or what have you, I need to make myself cook. When my last laptop died it took with it all my saved up online recipes, and everything I can think of that I liked is either cake or contains pork (sometimes both), and while you can get pork in Egypt it's not all that easy. (Also not easy - tonic water. All I have found so far is a single measly can. The intern put club soda in my Hendricks the other day and acted like that was acceptable. It wasn't.)
I am looking through the Kitchn online recipe list, which is sort of helpful but I wish there was a box I could tick saying "I do not live in Brooklyn and even if I did I wouldn't eat this shit" to rule out the more ridiculous recipes. The recipe repositories where you can tell it what you have and it finds you recipes aren't helpful because I don't have anything. My go to recipes that I would periodically make are maple glazed butternut squash casserole, red wine and chorizo risotto, roast chicken, and a sausage casserole. Maybe I will go to a supermarket and find an item to then base a meal around. If you wanted to suggest some places to find recipes online, or link me to some favourites, that would be kind. I will repay that kindness by being too fussy for words and hating mushrooms, cauliflour, courgette/zucchini, aubergine/eggplant, cheese that isn't cheddar or mozzerella, fish, too much spice, eggs, bananas, avocado, artichokes, but otherwise being quite grateful for suggestions that are easyish and can have leftovers frozen. Oh, I also don't like chickpeas, lentils and most beans that aren't baked beans.
I found a recipe that looked reasonable except it uses cottage cheese. I don't like cottage cheese and am distrustful of its presence. What will it taste like cooked? It was in a pasta bake.
