You say that you'd rather be really poor than scratching, saving, scrimping all the pennies

[venta]

At the weekend, I was trawling the aisles of Sainbury's. And, while it wasn't what I was looking for, their own-brand "Cooks Ingredients" range turned out to be exactly what I wanted.

In effect, it's packets of cooked meat - nowt hugely inspiring there, you'd think. But actually, they're packets of shredded ham hock, shredded beef brisket, shredded cooked chicken... in fact, they're packets of leftovers. Which is great, because sometimes you want the leftovers without having had what is referred to in our household as the firstovers.

Obviously, if you want shredded ham hock then the ideal thing is to have already had a meal or two involving ham hock that week - it's probably nicer, and it's very probably cheaper. However if, for some reason, you have failed to have the requisite foresight then being able to buy leftovers is a very good idea indeed.

Comments

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Those sound perfect for my Indo-French lentil and bacon curry (which I cook in bulk and freeze.) I'll keep an eye out - there's no big Tesco near me, but Asda may have similar.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I recently heard exspelunca comment that she wished she knew you well enough to ask you for the recipe for this.

I have no idea what degree of acquaintance is required to ask someone such a thing on LJ, but am probably just about impolite enough to do it on her behalf anyway :)

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

If I'm going to type out the recipe, I might as well make an lj post on it. If I do, I'll make it a public post and drop her a comment where to find it.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ooh, excellent. Thank you very much.