Do you recognise arriving
at a point in the week or day when you stop and realise you have lost the plot.
Suddenly you panic forgetting what you were planning to do, or even didn’t have
a plan but suddenly realise something has to happen. This is defined as panic
management. So many people have it just about the time they realise that supper
or dinner has to be on the table for the hungry vultures. Many resort to convenience
foods or take-away.
So many times I have
written about planning. A quiet moment constructing a plan for the ensuing week
or two, where you at least have a structure of ingredients at hand to conjure
up that little bit of magic. The other special magic of course is to prepare
something for another day at the same time. A Casserole doubled and half frozen
for another day. Double potatoes or vegetables and create something the next
day. Extra baked potatoes can become stuffed potatoes or sauté. Blanched
vegetables can become vegetable bakes with pasta or mashed and made into hash
or cakes.
The other cross that is
born is by one very simple question. “What would you like for Dinner?” It starts at childbirth and then forever
becomes a burden of life for the producers of food. If you are cooking, no one
should be asked what they want, they should have two choices. Take it or leave
it! And NO alternatives. That’s assuming you are not being paid for the
production. The choice is yours to become a slave to the culinary diversities
of your family or not.
Breakfast or Brunch Hash
Cubed Boiled Potatoes
Fine Diced Onion
Sliced Mushrooms
Sliced Chorizo
Worcester Sauce
White Wine
Eggs
Toasted Brioche
Olive Oil
Sweat off the onions till
translucent. Add the Chorizo – a few shakes of Worcester Sauce and splash of
White Wine. Bring to the boil and reduce the liquor to concentrate the flavour.
Add the mushrooms – stir and cook. Finally add the Potatoes and heat them
through slightly browning them taking care not to break them up.
Toast the Brioche slices
and when ready pile the hash on top and serve topped with a fried egg to finish
is all off.
