It ain't easy being green...

Ahem.  no, I haven't spontaneously turned into Kermit the frog.  Just a slight hiccough in my efforts in being vegetarian for a month.  This is a somewhat cautionary tale.  So pin back your lugholes...Are you sitting comfortably?  Then I'll begin.

I had all the ingredients assembled for a rather nice looking chickpea curry.  I'd soaked my chickpeas, as you do if they're dried and not tinned.   Put them on to cook, and left 'em to it.

Then got talking to my friend on the internet. Silly, silly, Annie.  Y'all know what comes next, don't you?  A rather pungent smell of chargrilled chickpeas.  One burnt saucepan.

One extremely rude friend of mine commented that burned saucepans were the normal state of play in my modest household.  Hmpf.  Then he wondered why I clipped him around the noggin, the impudent rapscallion. 

I'd been buying my food several days ahead. And this was the last day before going out and stocking up again.   But having the resulting chickpea flambe meant I hadn't got any more chickpeas.  It was reasonably late in the evening.  And although  the supermarkets around are  pretty  much  24/7, I live a mile or so away and don't drive.  So it was down to my local corner shop for some tired old potatoes which I jacketed with some beans.  I could've used some meat in the freezer, but I proud to say I didn't.

Trying to learn from this somewhat sobering lesson, I've located a vegetarian shopping list online for beginners like yours truly.  The sort of stuff you need in your cupboards, freezer, etc.  You get the idea.  Anyway with that I can plan my meals one hell of a lot better.  So if by chance I do in future burn my dinner I won't get caught out like that.

I'm also trying to see if I can some decent non-alcoholic wine too.  I love t'internet.  I've located some, I just need to see if the local shops cater for this... 

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Tags: Burning saucepans not bridges, getting organised, making a plan and sticking to it, motivation.