It’s 1130am and my mind has already turned to what to do for dinner tonight.
I should first explain I LOVE food. Cooking, reading, eating, watching- you name it, if it has to do with food I will do it. I have a tendency to go to restaurants, try a meal and then recreate it at home. We then the play the game of guess the origin (or rather I play and C grudgingly plays along after many cries of ‘guess’!)
BUT Houston we have a problem (or rather Warsaw we have a problem).You can’t just walk into Sainsbury’s here and get what you need off the shelf. Oh no. This is where living abroad generally sucks.
For example until a few months ago making anything with lamb was a no-no. You just couldn’t get it (unless you fancied queuing at the Synagogue!). Online shopping means that we can now get lamb but I feel a traitor to my homeland buying frozen New Zealand lamb! We also have to remember to bring mint sauce back with us from the UK. In jars. In the hold. However we have now got around this – I have the packet sauce trafficker (aka my mum). Whenever they are out and about travelling (apparently Holiday Inn’s are quite good!) she will pick up the sachets of Mince Sauce, Vinegar (proper malt vinegar), Salad Cream, English Mustard and Marmite and pack them in a Jiffy bag over here. The British certainly have got the condiments down to a T! All I need for them to do now is the Lemon and Lime marmalade in small containers….!
But I digress from the dinner dilemma. I really. really fancy scallops, on a bed of butter wilted spinach with a mango puree. Only problem is a) no scallops and b) no real mangoes either. Maybe scallops with parma ham and butter then??
I guess that craving will have to wait a while (8 weeks and counting and we go home!) But what do I do in the meantime. I know that nothing else will satisfy the craving – and so I am resorting to trailing the internet for a restaurant that does scallops. I’m struggling . I don’t want them fried in coconut milk. Or battered. I want them sauteed with spinach. Maybe I will have to go to Centrum to Marks and Spencers and see if they have any frozen ones. While I’m there I may get some scampi, salt n vinegar crisps, bitter lemon…… 
