Who's responsible for West Drayton?

[venta]

You get some odd conversations in our house. As ChrisC came in back from an emergency run to the shops on Sunday[*], the following dialogue took place:

Me: It's very exciting! Please can we go to the Camden Head on the 7th or the 8th of December, can we can we can we?
ChrisC: Are we not constrained by prelapsarian thought?

We don't usually need this kind of philisophical debate before committing to a trip up the Northern Line. However, he was way ahead of me and knew that this very exciting news might be on its way.

The Book of Job: The Musical! which I was so impressed by years ago is going to be performed again in London. For two nights.

Although apparently you're only allowed details at the moment if you do Facebook. Which I don't. Hopefully that will soon be sorted out.

If you are:

(a) in London
(b) not going to be offended by something poking fun at the Bible

then I highly, highly recommend you sort yourself out with a ticket forthwith. If you are allergic to musicals, then I suggest you think of it was an evening of comedy which might involve a guitar.

[*] Following a discovery by me halfway through making vegetable lasagne that we didn't have any tinned tomatoes. Really? What kind of household doesn't have tinned tomatoes in the cupboard? I despair.

Comments

[lathany.livejournal.com]

What kind of household doesn't have tinned tomatoes in the cupboard?

One with chrestomancy in it.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yes, fair point.

I shall rephrase my question as "What kind of normally functional household, which does a reasonable amount of cooking, and contains no tomato-allergic people, doesn't have tinned tomatoes in the cupboard?"

Not as snappy...

(How's the ear this morning?)

[lathany.livejournal.com]

Not as snappy...

And also deprives me of snappy replies. More on topic, we're always horrified when we run out of tomato as well.

(How's the ear this morning?)

It recovered from the ear drops more quickly as usual, which I think is a good sign. So I'm feeling moderately cheerful about it.

[the-alchemist.livejournal.com]

I shall rephrase my question as "What kind of normally functional household, which does a reasonable amount of cooking, and contains no tomato-allergic people, doesn't have tinned tomatoes in the cupboard?"

One which buys their tomatoes in cartons?

One which grows their own tomatoes and has such an overabundance that they just use fresh instead?

[venta.livejournal.com]

One which buys their tomatoes in cartons?

Goodness, can one do such a thing? It must be the future.

Are they significantly different to tinned tomatoes?

One which grows their own tomatoes and has such an overabundance that they just use fresh instead?

... and has time to faff on skinning them to make them suitable for putting in lasagne on a work night :) (Which is wasn't in this case, but usually is, Sundays being reserved largely for roasts.)

[the-alchemist.livejournal.com]

Cartonny ones taste exactly the same as tinned ones to me.

I don't tend to make lasagne because I prefer other kinds of pasta bake, but for other things requiring a tomatoey sauce I quite often just use fresh ones with the skin on, and don't find it makes much (if any) difference. Is lasagne different for some reason?

[venta.livejournal.com]

I'm not aware of lasagne having any magical properties, I'd certainly skin tomatoes for any pasta sauce.

It's not a taste issue, as such, just I find that little bits of skin end up coming off and are really nasty, tough and bitter when encountered in isolation. So long as the skin remains attached to the tomato, it's fine.

Possibly I'm doing it wrong, or am just fussy - if you don't find it a problem, then I'd stick with the skin-on version as peeling them is a proper carry on (especially if they're not quite ripe).

(My lasagne did have sliced fresh tomato on its top, but because they just baked rather than cooking in a sauce their skin stayed on and they were fine.)

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I live in just such a cartoned household: they fit on the shelf a lot better. We also get various types of beans, chickpeas etc in cartons rather than tins.¹

Maybe tins will become a thing of the past?

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1 From Sainsburys

[venta.livejournal.com]

Is it just tesellation you go for? Are the cartons recyclable? (I'd assumed they'd be landfill, where tins at least go in the recycling...)

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Tesselation, yes. Our shelves are pretty well rammed.

They're tetra paks, so you can recycle them at quite a lot of places: including at our local Sainsburys, conveniently enough.