Food for the Poorly

Posted on 2006/04/22 06:12:26 (April 2006).

[Thursday 20th April]
Chie wasn't very well today so took the day off work, as a result I made sure I left work on time so I could come back and look after her. So obviously I cooked dinner tonight. For a starter I made a kind of tofu salad - in a nearby izakaya I'd had something similar, where they used tofu in the same way you'd use mozarella, in a mozarella and tomato salad. I also put a kind of herb salad with it, and a not-so-vinaigry vinaigrette. This all came out rather well. The main course was less of a success - I was planning to use some leftover pasta sauce I remember I had in the fridge, only to find out Chie had eaten it at lunchtime. So I had to improvise, and instead did gnocchi with a sort of cheese and mustard sauce. To my shame though, for almost the first time in my life, the absence of any milk or cheese forced me to use an "instant cheese sauce" that came in a powdered form in a packet. Predictably it wasn't all that great. The addition of whole grain mustard did make it slightly more palatable though - although probably gnocchi and mustard is a slightly unusual combination, mustard does go really well with cheese sauces... a bit like the flavouring for welsh rarebit.

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